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Best Hawthorne Poems


A Scarlet Ode to Hawthorne
My shame is my scarlet letter
Sewn stitch by stitch by years
A scarlet letter emblazoned
An alphabet on my chest
A superhero’s symbol disguised
Find me a phone booth
Tear off my Brook Brothers shirt
Pull down my J Crew  pants
It’s good to see my scarlet letter
Fly like a speeding...

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Categories: hawthorne, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Listen To the Songbird
robin's melody
rings true from the Hawthorn tree~
sweet sound among thorns....

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Categories: hawthorne, bird, tree,
Form: Haiku
World Poetry Day
N. Hawthorne encouraged us to do anything, something,  (heroic?) even though life brings huge discouragement: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, that life is but an empty dream ..." PSALM OF LIFE 


I had to pen something like poetry today
It's World Poetry day, they...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hawthorne, beauty, books, faith, voice,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



When
I
When you have used up nerve, muscle, sinew
To be all you dreamed for others and for you
Then the soul alone can make you move at all
That is how U write like Rumi, Emily, Hawthorne

II
When death and evil seem greater than good
When darkness seems omnipresent, not...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hawthorne, analogy, angst, change, character,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry