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Brookings Poems - Poems about Brookings


Josh Moore America

...Stand cold 3 AM on work line, slighted, famished, impoverished, vanished, faded, hungry.
Long walk down Cliff Avenue hill, US Highway, dissecting sides of Sioux.

Hard day labor, sex offenders, ha...
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Categories: brookings, america,
Form: Free verse

Jenny Lynn Coleman

...Bubbles confabulated,
Aquamarine rosary beads,
Steel-blue beams.

Americana scarecrow,
Cherry-red combine.
Lost Highway,
A road to the car dealership,
Back on the interstate.

Campanile, Br...
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Categories: brookings, 5th grade, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse



4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories: brookings, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories: brookings, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict

...Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

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Categories: brookings, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse



On Seeing Christ

...Not then as mingling personage,
and its resort,
nor as linguistic parsonage
in moments scored!

So also referenced structuring
the church in ford,
oft marks the course in buffering
a message heard!

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Categories: brookings, farewell, future, jesus, leaving,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things