Best Connecticut Poems
Below are the all-time best Connecticut poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of connecticut poems written by PoetrySoup members
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...
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Categories:
connecticut, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
The Covered BridgeTired timbers creak and groan;
lonely bones now brittle,
once proud and strong when
bearing the harvest weight.
The wagons and muscular engines
were no burden for my
young and supple...
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Categories:
connecticut, life,
Form:
Free verse
13 Original States• Connecticut
• New Hampshire
• New York
• New Jersey
• Massachusetts
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia
• Rhode Island
• Maryland
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Categories:
connecticut, history, immigration,
Form:
List
Categories:
connecticut, child, death, sad, teacher,
Form:
Haiku
Let's Limerick TodayA Poem Full Of Fun
Once upon a poet from Japan
he crafted a poem full of fun
on the audition day
he couldn't find a way
to speak about...
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Categories:
connecticut, cheer up, fun, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Blood and BulletsInspired by the Connecticut tragedy and another minor shooting that happened in my home state
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Blood and Bullets
That night we cried ourselves to sleep
For each of...
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Categories:
connecticut, allegory, angst, confusion, dark,
Form:
Blank verse
When Words Falls In Love"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."
(from: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain)
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Should old romantic souls...
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Categories:
connecticut, age, romance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Twenty Crayons(Dedicated to and in memory of the
children who were killed in the
Connecticut school shooting.)
Remember bells and keep your eyes
from crying,
from the sights...
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Categories:
connecticut, dedicationwords, prayer,
Form:
Lyric
With You EmilyWith you, Emily,
I desire everything,
Some blackcurrant ice cream,
From gondolas to Venice,
Without you, Emily,
I don’t want anything,
With you, Emily,
I desire everything,
From Connecticut,
Of fine musical,
Without you, Emily,
I...
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Categories:
connecticut, appreciation, confidence, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
The BleedingI flung my bloodied bathrobe onto a dusty mahogany bureau and roared: “Did we frighten
the scarecrows tonight, my love? Whose catch was it anyway? Yours...
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Categories:
connecticut, on writing and words
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains...
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Categories:
connecticut, africa, america, history, racism,
Form:
Verse
Alaska, the Last FrontierAlaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates the landscape.
The...
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Categories:
connecticut, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form:
Verse
Just Desserts and AppetizersThe sherbet orange light of a fall morning in Connecticut crackles with the scent pine. The lake’s parking lot overflows by nine thirty. The S.U.V.s...
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Categories:
connecticut, boat, fun, summer,
Form:
Haibun
Categories:
connecticut, food,
Form:
Verse
Red and Blue Estrangered FamiliesDear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a...
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Categories:
connecticut, earth, faith, family, health,
Form:
Political Verse