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Clayton Poems - Poems about Clayton

Premium Member Gateway Town
...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ......

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Categories: clayton, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Fatally Poisoned
...Imam Hassan. Bruce lee. Eva braun. Georgi markov. Theodore romzha. Valterovich litvinenko. Mahendra Tripathi. Yogendra sony. Steve clayton. Mary yoder. Stacy robinson. Note. It is to be sa......

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Categories: clayton, body, drug, food, funeral,
Form: List



Sunrise In Clayton
...The frosted grass reflected the tangerine skies As the sunrise starts a dance across glistening fields, Peeking through bare oaks and green towering pines As if to sneak views at the beauty which ......

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Categories: clayton, imagery, morning, nature, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bygone Days
... Bygone Days Written: By Tom Wright 4/3/2007 Remember the slogan “Haskell is moving, are you pushing? The railroad depot stands no more In the spot it occupied for so long. Inste......

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Categories: clayton, age, eulogy, time,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rhyming Male Names
...These are the male names I rhymed. It has taken some thyme. Tome-Jerome, Guillaume Richard- Redford,Clifford,Conuford Willard-Gerard,Barnard,Cunard Wilton, Parton, Clayton, Keaton Wayne- Dwane,......

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Categories: clayton, creation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Le Rat Noir - Translation of Iris Clayton's the Black Rat By T Wignesan
...Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan (Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder chi......

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Categories: clayton, discrimination, hero, political, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My First Visit To Movies
...My first time at the movies I was young at 13 years old really excited I was that day watching the big screen was true gold The big feature was ' Kid Galahad' starring Elvis the rock 'n' roll ......

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Categories: clayton, adventure, film,
Form: Rhyme
BORO DAYS TO 2015
...In the fifties, just a lad Cheering locals with me Dad 2nd tier, watch 'em play, Mannion, Peacock, Clough and Day Swinging 60s, working man Got the fever, diehard fan, 3rd division, hea......

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Categories: clayton, angst, beauty,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Dancer
...I dance. Dancing is what I do. Dancing drug my pain I dance because next to Jesus, Dancing is my second lover I dance before the crossroads of the world I dance in front the statue of Adam Clayt......

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Categories: clayton, hello, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Man Behind the Man
...Lean and tall, and black behind dark specs He was a quiet breeze passing by He paused I was perched on a pedestal I choose, Right inside Paris Blues. "the man behind the man" Said he has eag......

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Categories: clayton,
Form: Bio
The Devils Pew
...dare not say how you excommunicated me from your life a spoken word became as absent as bones in a sharks body a smile which once created smiles now creates eternal strife the way you spoke Fre......

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Categories: clayton, break up, forgiveness, lost
Form: Rhyme
Long Ago Heroes
...George Reeves Superman Clayton Moore the Lone Ranger long ago heroes......

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Categories: clayton, hero,
Form: Haiku
Why Had I Asked Him To the Ball
...My best friend, Suzanne, and I went to the same church. I lived in Coral Gables; She lived in Cutler Ridge. Her boyfriend went to my school; I had no boyfriend. Being friends at church some of us tal......

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Categories: clayton, angst, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, life,
Form: Narrative
My Black Ebony Queen
...She is a true Black Ebony Queen, A beautiful black woman that few have seen. Her beauty is not from her looks, but what she possess on the inside, And she lets God and wisdom be her guide. Her ......

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Categories: clayton, black-african amersister, beautiful, woman,
Form: I do not know?
Remember Me
...As we lay him down to rest, we say our last goodbyes. The parting words are hardest, as we send him up high. The life of a child cut short, but he finally has his peace. His mom cries and runs ......

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Categories: clayton, death, loss, peace, sadme,
Form: Couplet

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