Best Stumps Poems

Close to election time, we have the chance
to hear the candidates for office speak,
or “stump,” in nearby towns, to give their stance
on issues and improvements that they seek,
to promise they will strengthen all that’s weak.

The term “stump speech” dates back two hundred years,
when it was...

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on the hillside
where tall timber lived
only stumps...

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It's the place where we sit
And play a game of cards.
The biggest stump ever,
In any of our yards.

Once it was a chestnut tree
With branches ever so high.
They reached across the yard
And way up to the sky.

It was where a tiny crow lived,
"Elvis", the children named...

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Wings have been lost in the abyss of time, stumps of memories remain suspended on the horizon,
shadows dancing before your wandering eyes, you cover them with your palm like a mute spell,
you scream into the boundless silence, praying to an absent god, but the silence...

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