Best Grantham Poems
Morgan Freeman Got It Right
...There is no African American history,
or Native American history,
or Irish American history,
or Italian American history,
or German American history,
or Chinese American history,
or Hispanic Am......
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Categories:
grantham, america, history,
Form:
Free verse
Silence
...Keep your words close
—but silence closer
(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)......
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Categories:
grantham, silence,
Form:
Ballad
Perform a U - Turn
...It should be really easy
To get to Grantham right on time
Unless, that is, your Sat Nav
Is as troublesome as mine
I have the postcode ready
And I’m sure I’ve got it right
But my Sat Nav seems......
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Categories:
grantham, humor,
Form:
The Deafening
...Oftentimes, what doesn’t get said,
—makes the loudest noise
(Grantham New Hampshire: January, 2013)......
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Categories:
grantham, silence,
Form:
Ballad
By Half
...The mold has broken,
our future uncast
The best of remembrance,
severed in half
(Train From Grantham: July, 2016)......
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Categories:
grantham, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Leaves Turn
...Growing simpler with
each passing year
The leaves turn
and my mind releases
Freeing what it’s taken
a lifetime to acquire
Freeing what only this moment
can understand
......
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Categories:
grantham, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
We Don'T Serve Cheeseburgers At Downton
...We Don’t Serve Cheeseburgers at Downton
By Elton Camp
Mrs. Patmore strongly protested
When a cheeseburger was requested
With a sneer, the cook did say
“That guest is from the USA.”
“Whi......
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Categories:
grantham, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Smoldering Refrain
...Straddling the candle,
too close to the flame
A fiery benediction,
—a smoldering refrain
(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)......
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Categories:
grantham, motivation, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Morgan Freeman Got It Right
...There is no…
African American history,
Native American history,
Irish American history,
Italian American history,
German American history,
Chinese American history,
Hispanic American h......
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Categories:
grantham, america, history,
Form:
Free verse
Constant Cycle
...CONSTANT CYCLE
Through the window my soul has gone into that light and glory of new born day. Indeed again I have ascended death. To what duty is owed within myself as some payment for this life. ......
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Categories:
grantham, bible,
Form:
Ballad
The Leaves Turn
...Growing simpler with
each passing year
The leaves turn,
and my mind releases
Freeing what it’s tak......
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Categories:
grantham, change, seasons,
Form:
Blank verse
Silence
...Keep your words close
—but silence closer
(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)......
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Categories:
grantham, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Still To Run
...Your page now short on substance,
yet colorful the rhyme
The words used in abundance,
where lesser might define
Intention slave to beauty,
all meaning zero sum
Pageantry lost in the......
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Categories:
grantham, meaningful, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fall
...I happen to be cast a
different way
Molten like igneous
stone
I live on the boundary,
where others won’t play
At the edge of the scary
unknown
The chess board on fire,
as t......
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Categories:
grantham, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Another's Contraband
...Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
or are corn stalks more you game
Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
or the cocoa or cocaine
Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
inspiration all be damn......
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Categories:
grantham, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme