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Davenport Poems - Poems about Davenport

Like Stars and Dreams
...Alone, I could see the lights strung on top of Mercy Hospital from anywhere in the northside of Davenport the reds and blues and greens and I believed there was magic. I was a senior in high sc......

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Categories: davenport, christmas, high school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Antiquarian Echoes: Time-Traveling through an Old Library's Labyrinth
...In dust-laden silence, past the reach of day, The mansion's library whispered of forgotten tales, Its heartbeat echoed in the books arrayed. Time's soft touch graced each spine and page, Among ......

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Categories: davenport, books, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse



Poems about Science 3: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION Peers by Michael R. Burch These thoughts are alien, as through green slime smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope, positioning my bright osc......

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Categories: davenport, bird, fish, fishing, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku by Michael R. Burch late November: climate skeptics scoff but the geese no longer migrate. The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct by Michael R. Burch Th......

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Categories: davenport, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
My Sharp Eyes Saw
...My sharp               eyes                        saw            A dog          digging                     a hole                              at Davenport. A cat         catching ......

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Categories: davenport, africa, animal, dog, imagery,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Tightropes of the Three Graces
... "Tightropes of the Three Graces" Tightropes for hanging clothes on a line each piece pegged wooden held between closed fences misfortune's breeze lifts sleeves ......

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Categories: davenport, little sister, love, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ascentuals
...Mind trap wanderings davenport differentials childhood solitudes garner teen tentacles enlivening adult adventures can we make Peace within ourselves? nomenclatures not included avoid advanced......

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Categories: davenport, analogy, change, community, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xiii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XIII Davenport Tomorrow by Michael R. Burch Davenport tomorrow ... all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun. Now it is always summer and the bees buzz in cesspool......

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Categories: davenport, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems I
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ... The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand by Michael R. Burch “Dust to dust ...” I stumbled, aghast, into a valley of dust and bone w......

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Categories: davenport, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Railway To Hell
...The Gypsy jumped from car to car, never getting off the train In Davenport through morning fog, the old town looked the same The prairies waited in the dark, the Rockies far beyond In Den......

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Categories: davenport, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood bachelorhoodwinked by Michael R. Burch u are charming & disarming, but mostly ALARMING since my resolve dissolved! * Disconcerted by Michael R. Burc......

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Categories: davenport, desire, engagement, first love,
Form: Verse
Davenport Tomorrow
...Davenport Tomorrow by Michael R. Burch Davenport tomorrow ... all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun. Now it is always summer and the bees buzz in cesspools, adapted to a new life. T......

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Categories: davenport, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Shoes
...Part 2 - " Lily" / Kate Bush https://youtu.be/MWaqPOnR5wU "The Red Shoes" 3 Pieces of Paper A Line, A Cross, ......

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Categories: davenport, destiny, fate, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Where Does the Butterfly Go
...Where Does the Butterfly Go? by Michael R. Burch for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba Where does the butterfly go when lightning rails, when thunder howls, when hailstones......

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Categories: davenport, holocaust,
Form: Verse
Strikingly Crafty Logomaniac Presents
...Strikingly crafty logomaniac presents... what else... his trademark blatherskite! While sprawled comfortably numb upon davenport Iowa daily dose of poetic mishmash, thus yours truly couches, k......

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Categories: davenport, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

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