Best Dormer Poems

My bed is a vintage and very old 
I adore the swirled black metal
nice to behold
so delicate each created petal
I inherited it from grandma long...

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Elvin Allen

1889 – 1905

They were like iron trees!
Hundreds of them!
Poking and piercing their way into the sun-lit sky,
Like moist fingers
Testing the wind direction to the...

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Esther Shugg

1833 – 1908

A woman’s heart forever resides
In the glowing hearth of her humble home.
Come Earth dwellers. Come Earth survivors.
I invite you to my warm...

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it’s 2 am in paris 
and we have locked arms 
as we walk-run
down the rue des rosiers.
the soles of our shoes
smack against 
the eight hundred
year...

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Bought at an antiques store for a song:
unframed print #225 of 750, signed by the artist
Number III of the family name, all painters,
(presumably) Those forbears...

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An eight-drawer dresser sits in an attic corner
Under the east wall dormer
It has a drawer that's quite a bother
It's the bottom drawer, a pesky drawer
That...

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I. Beyond the open dormer, high boughs of trees stir.
Your voice is in the green leaves,
In the mingled limbs moving, stirred by fluid air
Flowing past...

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Every day I pass it by
This house of solid wood,
I would like to go inside,
If only that I could.

It has a large veranda
All across the...

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The Window...

Here
looking out
looking in
through 
my
self:
a transparent orb
stilled in fragile strength---
Here
looking in
looking out
through
my
self:
a quite dormer
revealing and concealing;
a pawn broker
of secrets.
Here 
looking out
looking in
through myself....

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Stranger things happen

Than what's just happened to me!

Walking past a house

I saw an image there

In the dormer window looking

I noticed the burn of her stare

As...

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Sundial
My passion is the silent weather vane
The gambrel brought such sorrow
Much I marveled this roughcast cairn
Eagerly I looked for the lintel

I have dreamed of the...

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I have seen people so kind...
And their stories rewind...
It is hard to remind...
The thoughts that unwind...

Strangers turning warmer...
Past becoming dormer...
Every day goes faster...
Making me a...

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I was was born in Ottawa, Canada and have lived here all my life and have 
never wanted to leave.  It is a beautiful...

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Billy

Saturday night in another winter,
The time was 8:00, and I remember,
Icicles were hanging from the dormer windows,
Arc lights wore halos as I waited for you.

My...

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It's winter as I view the merging between night and dawn
Frosted dew crunches underfoot as I stroll across my lawn
Around me the world is hushed...

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