Best Spires Poems

...inspired by 'The Average' by W.H. Auden


From scant beginnings, and of lowly birth,
bound to tractor pull and harvester,
squinting in the sun and pouring rain,
imagination dead, his soul would fester.

Smothered by his parents' love, he saw
no future plan, his for the taking,
how could he repay their...

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Cathedral Spires
By Franklin Price
6/9/2015
Contest-Four Lines Only (visual-1)

Cathedral Spires point to Heaven
Heaven where Lord Jesus was raised
Raised to be by his father there
There for true believers he waits...

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...inspired by 'The Average' by W.H. Auden


From scant beginnings, and of lowly birth,
bound to tractor pull and harvester,
squinting in the sun and pouring rain,
imagination dead, his soul would fester.

Smothered by his parents' love, he saw
no future plan, his for the taking,
how could he repay their...

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Stone Spires

Stone cathedral spires rise
          Sharply
From freely flowing waters
 Birthing rebirth -
Lifting up unto the eternal
 A psalm
   A canticle
      To celebrate the seasons;
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The Dreaming Spires

...inspired by 'The Average' by W.H. Auden


From scant beginnings, and of lowly birth,
bound to tractor pull and harvester,
squinting in the sun and pouring rain,
imagination dead, his soul would fester.

Smothered by his parents' love, he saw
no future plan, his for the taking,
how could he...

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Embers fall like snowflakes
Scarlet flames lap at the stones
that were left behind.

A choir of mourners
raise their voices from the ground
with hopes that the notes
of "Ave Maria" reach heaven.

856 years of history
float to the earth in the
form of ash.

The heart of Paris
is breaking in two
with the...

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On the day four beasts fell…
Their tails whipping the sky in smoke
Consumed by their own fire
Such commerce
 Brought down an ancient spire
 
Little did the beasts care
 A mighty success 5 years prior
When just one was saved
 From confusion and mire
 
For as the cock...

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Shadow Spires

The long shadows
Crept across the garden
Dusk fell
Swiftly

The long shadows
Bony fingers
Pointing to the sky
Climbed upwards

The cool of evening
Reached down
In a blaze of starlight
In a Shadow…..
Of Spires

Soft edged
Midnight blue
The shadows of the night
Crept through

Soon all that was left
Were Shadow Spires
Reaching in to the night sky
A Castle...

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