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Below are the all-time best Massachusetts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of massachusetts poems written by PoetrySoup members

Midnight Sail On Massachusetts Bay

Releasing the rigid anchor line
Leaving the safety of land in our wake
Warm July zephyrs filling the sails
Resting even hands upon the tiller
As the bow broken...

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Categories: massachusetts, introspection, life, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

The Loss of the Andrea Gail

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: massachusetts, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative

Susan Ashley: Daydreamer

Susan
wife of Bill,
mother of Brock, Julianna, Jocelyn, Marcus
Heather and Billy, Jr.
grandmother of Logan, Delaney and Isaac
daughter of Alice and Albert and sister of Michael and...

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Categories: massachusetts, introspection,
Form: Bio

0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart, Renewed Tribute Series, Emily Dickinson

0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart

Her pen bled deep, and this her fans may yet agree
She felt a torrid hell, darkest of...

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Categories: massachusetts, appreciation, art, character, death,
Form: Sonnet

13 Original States

•	Connecticut
•	New Hampshire
•	New York
•	New Jersey
•	Massachusetts
•	Pennsylvania
•	Delaware
•	Virginia
•	North Carolina
•	South Carolina
•	Georgia
•	Rhode Island
•	Maryland

10112014...

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Categories: massachusetts, history, immigration,
Form: List

Ode To Joe Gould

Born Joseph Ferdinand Gould, in Norwood Massachusetts, 1889.
A 1911 graduate of Harvard, and a
Greenwich village Bohemian from 1916 until 1957,
and the time of his death...

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Categories: massachusetts, art, people, places, poets,
Form: Ode

Walking In Cambridge

A rainy August day in Massachusetts

Down in Somerville weather is cool

On a wet Sunday afternoon 


See me skipping puddles pass Sanders theatre

Shoes swimming in blues

From...

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Categories: massachusetts, beautiful, community, home, love,
Form: Verse

Teenage Love 10: Interracial Teen Couples

Once again, young love has affected the lives of all teenagers, but this time, it's also
affecting the lives of all young interracial young lovebirds. All...

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Categories: massachusetts, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, on writing
Form: Epic

Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan

Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
               ...

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Categories: massachusetts, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My Memoir

GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART 


From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming....

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Categories: massachusetts, nostalgia,
Form: Prose

Mary Eliza Mahoney Rn -United States First Black Nurse

Mary
 Mary Eliza Mahoney 
birth in 1845 an American black child of former slaves daughter of Mary Jane and Charles Mahoney 
at 18 showed interest...

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Categories: massachusetts, adventure, analogy, engagement, history,
Form: Bio

My Bucket List

MY BUCKET LIST

Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time...

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Categories: massachusetts, adventure, journey, places, travel,
Form: Free verse

Balancing Work and Play

I was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's...

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Categories: massachusetts, christian, destiny, god, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

Fighting Fate

Of the first five Presidents of the USA, 
four were Virginians. What does that say? 
It says that the South, superb, serene, 
bestrode the land,...

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Categories: massachusetts, history,
Form: Couplet

Contemporary Architecture

The London Gherkin gives no inspiration
As for the Auditorio de Tenerife by Calatrava
I can think of no other explanation
Except perhaps they shared too many bottles...

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Categories: massachusetts, places, london,
Form: Quatrain