Cullen Poems - Poems about Cullen

...Every January first of the new year... finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien) to give pause for reminiscences and to take stock (sh lock and barrel) about mein kampf in general and previou......

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...Misfit always out of step with the world, Outsider longing to run forever; Then into my reticent life you twirled; Proximity my only endeavor; Eyes lit on fire and my appetite swirled, there wa......

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...Sunday quote, and new poem- ( “And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief” – William Cullen Bryant ) Sad At Twilight Hour Love's Paradise Can Be Lost, With Sunday Quote Sad......

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..."Showers and sunshine slowly bring the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back." ......

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...thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat impatiently, she waits for me securing covid masks amidst......

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...Hapsburg bailiff Gessler’s hollow kow-tow; was a farce William Tell would disavow. A hat on a pole! I'll never bow. Such disregard tagged him, non-compliant in a poem told by William Bryant ......

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...The Drop I am on the white bright bed’s edge hanging on for dear life, in a dream just before sunrise, where it is a ledge above 5th Avenue. Fingers gripping the seam of the sheet......

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...C-ontagion O-f U-nknown N-astiness T-erribly E-mploys E-erie C-ontact U-sing L-ethal L-ink's E-pidemic N-otoriety Topic: Birthday of poet Countee Cullen (May 30) Form: Vertical Mon......

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...Fields where the bondman’s toil No more shall trench the soil, Seem now to bask in a serener day; The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs Of heaven with more caressing softness play, Welcom......

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...C-ouplet O-de U-ses N-o T-irade E-xpressing E-xcellent C-omment U-nder L-ovely L-ines E-rasing N-egativity Topic: Poet (Countee Cullen) Form: Vertical Monocrostic......

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...This is a parody of a poem by Countee Cullen displayed in my notes. She thinks that Blond number seven Will make her Zza Zza Gabor. The herbal facial was like heaven; The back rub was a chore......

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...You out there in the darkness Picking up your pens Need encouragement from the Lower East Side Surely you can writing something as imaginative as Tolkien Funny as Woody Allen As moving as Count......

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...(after Alfred de Vigny) He glided through the somber pines, a shark in surly ocean. In truth, I loved his sleek, low lines, the danger in his motion. Wild creatures do the best they can ......

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...High festive confusion among real monsters Around that wonderful time of the year, for: Lay men mistook Dracula for Edward Cullen, Lost Big Foot, they called "Chewy" Offense they did to evil wiza......

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...There’s a man across the ward from me with a hearing aid that whines, ‘Old age coming on you see, I’m only seventy-nine. Me hernia’s shot, and so’s me sight, my specs they’re thick like bottle. Bu......

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