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Camden Poems - Poems about Camden

The Ledger
...In smoky halls where echoes groan, they carved the truths in tempered stone, yet none recall the scribe who wrote— a chap in boots and mismatched coat. His quill was plucked from harpy's wing, ......

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Categories: camden, music, mythology,
Form: Narrative
The Blood Remembers
...In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones, Where the pavement hums with moans, Where mothers pray with open eyes, And sons are born beneath gray skies— The blood remembers. The land remembers. ......

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Categories: camden, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse



Schooldays Over
...The auld fella’s auld fella left the tech after Ripening for sixteen summers. Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a shovel and a pick at his lonely boots. ‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God di......

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Categories: camden, appreciation, grandfather, ireland, men,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Clerihew Lamb
...Henry Taylor-Lamb of renown in a group labelled Camden Town Noted for his portraits unusual elongated& so 'personel'......

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Categories: camden, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member London Town: Camden Lock
... charm(ed) bracelets and bangles and books on strange science in fogs of whatever all sold by the locks as sellers in cellars with culture on counters sell lifestyles as street ......

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Categories: camden, england, london,
Form: Rhyme



To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I
...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......

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Categories: camden, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
King's Mountain, Part I
...It was after the defeat at Camden, in the fall of 1780, British Major Patrick Ferguson sought to exploit Britain’s victory. To secure South Carolina’s countryside, he marched his loyalist forc......

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Categories: camden, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Wild Date
...They married in their own garden under the canopy of a Wild Date Tree An indigenous plant standing tall for sweetness and benevolent spirits This one untamed and miraculously withstanding droug......

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Categories: camden, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Daniel Morgan's Masterpiece, Part I
...Back in seventeen eighty-one The revolution hit hard times, Britain had taken Charlestown And at Camden had crushed the lines Of General Horatio Gates, Leaving nobody to resist, Except the Sw......

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Categories: camden, america, conflict, hero, history,
Form: Epic
Chad's Valley
...No one not even you will ever know beforehand how things will go. Practice may make perfect but perfect is no guarantee of success. The council sent a wrecking crew which is the......

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Categories: camden, anxiety,
Form: Political Verse
My Chipped Cup
...The Chipped Cup She sings a lullaby sweet Purchased on an impulse On Camden Street (A leap towards the hip?) Now her bottom is stained Reaping the harvest of Coffee- Noir. The fading bloom......

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Categories: camden, allegory, allusion, beauty, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Love Letters - 2 - a Collaboration With Michael Clarke-Repost
...Love Letters - 2 - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke-Repost Love Letter No. 2...Janet Camden. My most precious darlin' love I come to you across the many miles as my heart it bleeds an undying ......

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Categories: camden, devotion, longing, love,
Form: Prose
Love Letters - 1 - a Collaboration With Michael Clarke - Repost
...Love Letters - 1 - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke - repost Love Letters - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke Love Letters A Collaboration: These writes are from the letters of John and Jan......

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Categories: camden, longing, love,
Form: Prose
Sophie Kamlish
...Sophie was born with an abnormal right foot, So when she was nine she chose amputation, She comes from Camden then moved to Bath, And now studies at Bath College Illustration. In 2011 she w......

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Categories: camden, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Learn Again
...I'd give everything away to get back to the pricks of Camden, hear them rattle by and get lost at the dawn. It's about time to admit the loss of virtue of being able to love in return. I'd f......

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Categories: camden, absence, london, sick,
Form: I do not know?

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