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Clapperboard Poems - Poems about Clapperboard


Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Romancing the Silver Screen
...Romancing the silver screen Setting a million hearts ablaze Through amorous dreams Of actors lost in Love, desire and longing A make-believe that entertains Takes us on flights of fantasy Wit......

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Categories: clapperboard, desire, dream, fantasy, film,
Form: Free verse



Pioneering
...Rolling clouds over rolling hills. Kentucky is winding it roads out in endless curves. No hurry, this journey drives me through its curling landscape as a self-reading picture book of racial mem......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Where It Ends
...The edge of town arrives quickly, one last suburban tract, one last inflatable swimming pool then over the only hill around here, after which an oatmeal wash of savanna surfs over the blacktop. ......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Un Bel Di
...Dark brier grow thick in Cleveland, thorny tendrils thrive. Clapperboard homes slack and linger, neglected yards grow thin grey bones. A vaporous wave passed over Lake Erie. None noticed the l......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse



In These Parts
...the edge of town arrives quickly you hang an inscrutable left only to discover one beat-up clapperboard hulk hanging over tall corn as if time and land-wrecked it or you drive to the end of a......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Why We Cry Hearing the Theme Tune of Schindlers List
...It’s the elephant, the huge shadow, the gray bulk of gray in the room, and it’s such a small threadbare room, four bunks deep barely five feet wide. Wood lice are eating a cheap village fidd......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Where It Ends
...The edge of town arrives quickly, one last suburban tract, one last inflatable swimming pool then a blue wash of sky surfs over the blacktop. There are many left turns ahead, but when you discov......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
City Limits
...the edge of town arrives quickly. You hang an inscrutable left only to discover one beat-up clapperboard hulk hanging over tall corn as if land-wrecked. or you drive to the end of a suburban ......

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Categories: clapperboard, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Icon
...I am blinded by her image, A lone sainted visitation, Marching on the snow swept steppes, A ghost in isolation. I glimpse a tribal statuette, On white-gold desert plain; A stallion black ......

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Categories: clapperboard, love, mystery, passion, uplifting,
Form: Verse

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