Downdraft Poems - Poems about Downdraft

...These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written t......

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...Poems about Poets V Edna St. Vincent Millay Has Her Way with a Vassar Professor by Michael R. Burch After a night of hard drinking and spreading her legs, Millay hits the dorm, where the ......

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...SELF REFLECTIONS These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection. Self Reflection by Michael R. Burch for anyone struggling with self-image......

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...Radiance by Michael R. Burch for Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil, ......

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...Myth, after Dylan Thomas by Michael R. Burch Here the recalcitrant wind sighs with grievance and remorse over fields of wayward gorse and thistle-throttled lanes. And she is the myth of the......

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...Homeless Like the hawk spiraling On a downdraft; A suicidal freefall Crashing through rented rooms friend’s couches, to the dirty floor And finally here, in the street ......

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... Exasperated Written: by “Miracle Man” 7/10/2018 I’ve days when I find myself exasperated, From eying baggage that I’ve stored aft; Things rushed into that should have waited, I’m a......

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...CAUGHT IN A TANGO AT CAPE HORN whistles while he works ~ pavement is free of debris on America’s south side her slender feet slide across legend’s windswept deck ~ tremulous tan......

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...A ferocious sky rattles overhead, Gathering a vault in electric red As lightning of fire grills my night, aloud Like a mad howl piercing edges of cloud. Rapid the hours’ flush deepening a s......

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...Whirlpool opposing current tides swirling downdraft vortex blown canvas of glass 5/30/2016 # 9 Glass Art 8/28/2014, first poem submitted in poetry soup......

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...Inhale the sage-scented breeze liaison Jagged peaks’ sharp ebony silhouette Crescent moon, Venus, ornaments of dawn Crystal desert morning never forgets Afternoon visit, charged mind of the cl......

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...PLASTIC BAG: THE SAGA CONTINUES Yes, they laughed at him, full of hot air, but he died trying. It’s easy to forget that - it seems - Plastic bags too have ambitions, careers, dreams. He was read......

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...Block after block there is a man. Outstretched hands presenting a brown-stained Starbucks cup. Steadfast, I must look straight. Businesslike gait creating the illusion that I have somewhe......

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