Best Woodward Poems

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 the street the congregation did stroll.

As parishioner's entered within,
all greeted with an angelic grin.
Determination written on his angelic face,
the young...

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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 of Detroit.

8 Mile Road.
“I'm a man
I'm a make a new plan”
Eminem makes and takes the rap
while party stores and strip...

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For Tom Woody...er, Thomas Woodward. They say imitation is the purest form of flattery! <3

Thank you, Mary 

I heard a tale today about Mary Roger's
Her story broke my heart and made me cry. 
Sometimes life's too cruel/ but there's ought that we can do
But pray...

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