Best Woodcut Poems
The Burning of the JewsIt was a woodcut in our high school history text, Unit 4 Beginnings of the
Modern World, that so disturbed,
from the Nuremburg Chronicles depicting the burning of the Jews, flat
perspective,
faces of the victims among...
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Categories:
woodcut, beauty, christian, dark, garden,
Form:
Free verse
The Only Star For MeThe Only Star For Me
It’s my corner coffee shop, Starbucks
The cheer starts here with hot coffee
I’ll get yours, it’s nothing, awe shucks
A home away from home, my family
A blended Frappuccino, at lunch to boast
Make it a Sumatra Arabica venti
Fresh whole coffee beans dark...
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Categories:
woodcut, addiction, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Songs From the Umbrawe found each other's bodies
in a pile of bodies
writhing and squirming for the light
you were pulling petals off flowers
I was teaching young children how to swear
and in that moment of passion
such beauty, such surprise
that you would come over to my side,
we appeared preserved
as in...
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Categories:
woodcut, deep, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse