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Best St Johns Poems


Ode To the St. Johns River, Jacksonville, Fl
My Saint John flow on
Through forest, marsh and town's spread
Tablecloth of stars

Conquistadors gone
The blue herons walk alone
In moonlight's silence

River and lone night
Memory is a wind's hope
Rustling swamps for gold

Let us keep our thoughts
In slow meandering lakes
The salt sea invites

Less Timucuan
Waken find us new remnants
In Ferdinand's...

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Categories: st johns, allegory, nature
Form: Haiku
St Johns Schools
Sprouted from the depth and leapt for the height
Tremendous epoch-making in sight

Just like a raw gem that transforms on motion
Our imaginations are like the ocean
Her noble mind in noble thoughts we see
Now, see hordes of hospitality over the fee
Sons and daughters home-like honied  hive

Sweet...

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Categories: st johns, education, happiness, school, visionary,
Form: Acrostic
The St.Johns River Rafter
love,a slipper,a glove.the tea is sweet,little bo peep,keep your endeavors,i here,forever.to 
sheer a sheep,little bo peep.indeed keep your false friend until the end.the mend is soft and 
complete with tune,loves a sand dune and i lack a broom.some soon rather than later,i,the 
mouth of an...

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Categories: st johns, love
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



St Johns Newington
Such a beautiful building
Airy and spacy and light
Just off Hesse Road, a place,
For that occasion, just right.
One of the trawlermens’ churches
A community now scattered and gone
But thanks to these old photos
It's memory will live on and on.

Just a visitor from the Social
For years I wandered...

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Categories: st johns, community, memory, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things