Easter Blank Verse Poems

A love letter not published.

I'm old now, was old ten years ago, but less in years than at present, and not too old for warm
a...

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a new house

I saw a photo from a long time, so long it doesn’t matter when
the photo was taken; by a couple still youngish with...

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There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of...

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“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue...

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Hello My Little Chickadees

It's not all Eggs and Chocolate.
It's not all Bunnies and Hearts.
It's just to say I love thee,
From the bottom of my Heart.

I...

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New life will come in Spring
Nature always wins
He can fake anything
She holds on to life in Winter
Let's go in Summer
Who would be interested
In such a...

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An oil port

He is looking on to shore and sees an oil terminal
waiting for the pilot, he may arrive today or tomorrow.
Well he is not...

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It was on a cloudy morning
The sun restrained from bursting forth
The hordes of hell were let loosed
And the battle lines eventually drawn
The lamb that was...

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Hawkish angels with golden bows
chase away shawnee and wolves.
A sinewy faith built the rough and ready.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.

Despite the tornadoes,
we...

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Early one morning

It is early morning the boars are back in the woods

The prostitutes sleep in dingy rooms, and rats are back

In the sewers and...

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Summer evening   
The day is gone
Darkness is moving in
My day
Correcting poem
Writing new ones is over
Time for TV.
I have read the news
Not uplifting
Seeing Trump
The...

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Easter Monday

yesterday
reminded of our
often feared
consideration of
life and death..

this year
may be the time
to more fully
Recognize
the seed of the 
creation:
 inseparable
life/death..

let us cede
that there is what
 seems...

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Christmas is coming

But I am not humming
Gifts are being bought and adverts are starting strumming

Not for me though

Because I see the holy tree and I...

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It’s Easter time in the uk but what do kids know of this day?
When Jesus rose up from the dead, they’re watching bunnies play instead.
Stuffing...

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-Let Me--

Let me caress your lips of twee
And let me get drunk in your breath.
Let me trace your body of   balmy
And let me...

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