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Derricks
Derricks Poems - Poems about Derricks
Crossing a Continent At Night
...Down a runway skybound to cross a continent, see from a window a city fall away with bright beads strung along a coast, then turning inland, clumped townships shrinking to solitary lights......
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Paul Willason
Categories:
derricks,
flying, night,
Form:
Free verse
Monet's Impression, Sunrise
...Monet's Impression, Sunrise First impressions leave memories That can linger for a very long time; And give a sense of peace and understanding, That rewards the solitude of the mind Wit......
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Dennis Spilchuk
Categories:
derricks,
art, change, culture, education,
Form:
Verse
Chaos In the White House Jab Two
...when Democrats outliers gnashed teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws pistol whipped and hashed tagged traitors who roared America went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed when D......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
derricks,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hurricane Harvey Landfall August 27th 2017
...This long time doodling Yankee (who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV plus III four seasons visited upon swath of topography to see and hear flora and fauna over run via in......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
derricks,
america, courage, environment, loss,
Form:
Imagism
Chaos In the White House - Part 2
...like some sorority or fraternity house left the sanctified righteous West Wing with powder puffs sans canisters of pepper spray, whereby most docile, humble, and liberal took a page ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
derricks,
america, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
Elvin Allen - 1889-1905
...Elvin Allen 1889 – 1905 They were like iron trees! Hundreds of them! Poking and piercing their way into the sun-lit sky, Like moist fingers Testing the wind direction to the east. I was born into t......
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Stark Hunter
Categories:
derricks,
death,
Form:
Epitaph
Keep It Turnin' To the Right
...Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him how to fight Herding mad......
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Roy Jerden
Categories:
derricks,
day, earth, funny, life,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Zen
...An empty box of wine on the sticky linoleum spells out the breaking of caste; here the plateau is littered with condom wrappers, half-eaten scraps of food and other assorted forms of trash. ......
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Geoffery Mchugh
Categories:
derricks,
social
Form:
I do not know?
Musing Or Amuseing Part 2
...I like it when I go with one of them as I don't have to drive and I can enjoy God's wonders. Yesterday our tank fitting took us east to the town of Douglas. As we passed through an area where ......
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Marycile Beer
Categories:
derricks,
imagination
Form:
Prose Poetry
What a Spin I'M In.
...Up and down the tree I go.....pointy toes scattering snow as I try to reach the top ...... one by one my acorns drop skittering across dry leaves...that twirl about in the breeze. No one know......
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Margaret Okubo
Categories:
derricks,
animals, me,
Form:
Rhyme