Best St Johns Poems
Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton
...Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton P......
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Categories:
st johns,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Gardener
...Wet skies
Grey dawn
Blankets the coast.
Black rocks
Sea foam
Triggers the most
Atlantic applause,
An encore to those
Just hearty enough
To make a life on The Rock.
And to answer the cal......
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Categories:
st johns, death, garden, memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Categories:
st johns, allegory, nature
Form:
Haiku
In Pleasure
...In Pleasure
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 in “Death OF A Rose” By Nate Spears
White suit, top hat, pride feeling higher than spectacular
The ugly duckling has opened a new chapter
Reveal......
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Categories:
st johns, journey, life, love, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Brick City's Homeless
...I am a high school graduate and a former college student
I have no children
No drug or alcohol addiction
nor do I have a home
I am one of Brick City's homeless
Many of the faces I've seen downtown ar......
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Categories:
st johns, introspection, journey, me, me,
Form:
Free verse
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 thoug......
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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......
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Categories:
st johns, love
Form:
Prose Poetry
Standing Under St John's Bridge
...Standing under St Johns Bridge,
ships and boats hauling in,
red and green lead the drive,
dusk has framed another day.
Gentle ripples,
hide Willamette's gold.
Pilgrims dreams are seen,
yet......
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Categories:
st johns, beautiful, happy, history, places,
Form:
Gator Bait Series 3rd the Dream Scheme
...Just a Thought......20 below can be a temp......20 below can also " tempt"
Sometimes we have a life long dream...
but not sure where to start....
and sometimes we must go to the extreme..
with a ......
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Categories:
st johns,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Old Building By the Saint Johns
...AN OLD BUILDING BY THE ST. JOHNS
Prose and fingers lingering to the North arise!
On this day 25 degrees North of the Sun
Venus and the moon shall collide and dance
Chance!
The St. Johns and a rippl......
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Categories:
st johns, nature, passion, giggle,
Form:
Verse
My Thoughts On Life
...MY THOUGHTS ON LIFE
IF I WERE TO TELL YOU NOW THAT I WAS A HAPPY PERSON ALL THROUGH MY LIFE,I WOULD
BE LYING.I WONT GO BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD DAYS,SOME PEOPLE DONT LIKE LONG
STORYS AND I AM ONE......
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Categories:
st johns, god, me, home, god,
Form:
Jacksonville
...Jacksonville, at this hour, tell me
Do you miss me where the river flows
Through Florida's tangled history
Where the Mocama cotton grows
Do you see me driving early
To teach where the clansman name ......
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Categories:
st johns, history, places, me, heart,
Form:
Lyric
Daffodils At Thriplow
...I saw Thriplow in its merriment
Vintage cars borrowed from Cambridge
and an abundance of folk singers
with strobes of defiant daffodils
food for the feasties
Morris Dancers sermonising past prac......
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Categories:
st johns, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Hollywood Beach Gulls
...HOLLYWOOD BEACH GULLS
Regrettably the sun was setting low
on wings of gulls all red and fiery eyed
they plucked the popcorn from our waiting hand
as if we had a dream to give to them
or sang a song ......
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Categories:
st johns, angst, confusion, depression, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Mcclendon's Break
...Streaking, dashing, breaking away
Up, up the tempo, the McClendon way
Getting wide and filling the lanes
Assisting the open man with two points to gain
Upbeat, back and forth, fast, and then ......
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Categories:
st johns, basketball, beautiful, black love,
Form:
Rhyme