Get Your Premium Membership

Calumet Poems - Poems about Calumet


Calumet nights
...Sinner they came Children playing Wine drinking Cheese eating While old folks whisper The smell of freshly baked breads As the couples dance in the street We cherished for......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member First City
...In the late 60s in 'the second city', on the southside at 43rd and Calumet, there stood a mission cen......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, america, chicago, christian, faith,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Calumet
...we come donning our best our head and heart clear with pure intention we sit in silence ceremoniously lighting the calumet in peace and harmony letting our silence speak our peace offering ......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, peace, silence, spiritual, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chicago Cure
...Tired and torn, weary and worn, male and female, straight and gay. High and hooked, homeless and hungry. Every creed, color, and kind. looking for freedom to find. Addicted to crime; running o......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, abuse, addiction, america, drug,
Form: Free verse
Apologia To Avoid An Online World Squaw Bull
...please allow ample delivery time per arability of friendship and hoop fully this acquiescence can render an accord shared via exchanging calumet peace pipe initially inv......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Second City
...In the late 60's in 'the second city', on the south side at 43rd and Calumet, there stood a mission c......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, angel, anger, blessing, chicago,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member City Tears
...I don’t know why, but it hit me suddenly this morning during my quiet time. I thought about a city and the people I once met in five distinct communities A part of me; those seven years of labor,......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, care, christian, city, faith,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 5
...The delegation arrives in a procession of handsome, barbaric lineage rugged in animal accoutrements and subdued in the presence of the future's skin, the women, fine in wild beauty are bejeweled in......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Chicago Cure
...The Chicago Cure By Curtis Johnson They came tired and torn, weary and worn They came male and female, straight and gay They came high and hooked, homeless and hungry They came addicted to a......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, addiction, chicago, drug, ,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blackened Goby
...Flaming red corvette... Billow sailed dry-docked xebec smoking calumet......

Continue reading...
Categories: calumet, food
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things