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Best Woodward Poems

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The Crippled Boy, Tommy Woodward
The crippled lad stood beneath the bell tower
Pulls the rope to ring the bell at the praying hour.
With each mighty heave the bell does toll.
along...

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Categories: woodward, boy, child, courage, dedication,
Form: Narrative



North Woodward
Like Moses fleeing Egypt 
and finding refuge in Midian
I was a stranger in a strange land.
Having fled Chicago in ‘84
I journeyed east to the
unpromised land...

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Categories: woodward, life, urban
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Became a Poet
Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woodward, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Mary Rogers
*Had to bring this one back. Like my Poe poem, this one follows (haunts) me wherever I go. It is my favorite lyric that I've...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woodward, mental illness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woodward, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Growing Up, La - Part 1
- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - - 

My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)  
As such...

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Categories: woodward, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unforgettable Places - Acts
I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a...

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Categories: woodward, appreciation, blessing, family, life,
Form: Quatrain
Traffic Light
The woman in the back blowing her horn
 She is in a hurry to go
 As I comes to a complete stop
 After the traffic...

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Categories: woodward, education, environment, life,
Form: Light Verse
Tom Jones
This man was a laborer, and in vacuum cleaner sales.
He came a long way from Pontypridd in South Wales.
From humble beginnings as Thomas Jones Woodward,
Tom...

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Categories: woodward, dedication, music, career,
Form: Rhyme
Traffic Light
The woman in the back blowing her horn
 She is in a hurry to go
 As I comes to a complete stop
 After the traffic...

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Categories: woodward, education, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member One Man's Miracle
(The Man Who Proved That God Is Real)      

You told me you just want to know God exists, 
Oh dear...

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Categories: woodward, faith, feelings, friendship, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!

In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed...

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Categories: woodward, blessing, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stereo Man - It Takes Two
Stereo Man (It Takes Two?)

Stereo Man (It Takes Two?)

I’m a stereo man, and I carry two phones,
have two homes in two states (each sports car...

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Categories: woodward, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ghost of Winston Smith
Announcement to all Outer party members:

Thomas Woodward is dead. He is an unperson. You are to incinerate anything in your possession that might be contaminated...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woodward, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member It Worked In the Past
hello Barr
this is Woodward
would you like to talk to me 
about a new book
called Justice?
it will be fun....

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Categories: woodward, corruption, funny, humor, political,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs