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Foundry Poems - Poems about Foundry

Premium Member LIFE OF A SHOVEL
...I REMEMBER MY CREATOR A GREAT BIG BURLY LAD I WAS SENT OFF TO THE HARDWARE STORE TO DO THE SAME JOB AS MY DAD. A YOUNG CHAP CAME A BOUGHT ME HE TOOK ME TO THE SITE HE MADE ME WORK FOR HOURS ON......

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Categories: foundry, funny, goodbye, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Azura The Muse
... Azura de'palls the grid, surveyor on placebo crystal pillar lampstand, mid eyeing treeline, at curmudgeon sky. Angels filter embrionic ether sift of gland, at will beyo......

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Categories: foundry, art,
Form: Rhyme



Foundry and Mill
...Larks are ascending funnels of sky, songs smoke from enteral chimneys. In an industrial park a fine Autumn light burns bright. Shoes fill with walkers, we are out and praising the clanking ma......

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Categories: foundry, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dust Blown Around In Gust and Thrust
...into side must thrust wind would come up with a gust did survive from dust we knew they were trans which had been part of their plans either Fred's or Fran's we love our mother is perfec......

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Categories: foundry, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ramble Around the Foundry
...It’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day. I’m ridiculous for lack of content, All my plot holes are on display. Am I doing OK? Am I having a day? I can’t get a call back. I sat on a thumb tack. ......

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Categories: foundry, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member The Book of Revelations
...He walked up Mill Street past the Foundry, That citadel across from Nailers Row. With eight kids and their mother as dependents, He earned the pay that brought the bacon home. An immigrant, he ......

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Categories: foundry, death, grandfather,
Form: Ballad
Summers Day
...On sports betting I’d bet my life Praying I choose the right odds. Lately I’ve been placing my trust in cocktails and gin Trying to embrace these new habits I have, Like writing poems and living ......

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Categories: foundry, angel,
Form: Free verse
Days After War
...My soul strayed from my body yesterday I woke up to the chirping of crows a distance from my fathers house, Reading the letters I received in a past life, Before I was sent off to the frontiers of......

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Categories: foundry, angel,
Form: Free verse
Stargazer
...A thought to dare-dancing in shadow-light dreaming. Eyes wet with the unseen, a forbidden gleening. If only unforseen. Within golden breast heaving, rib expanding in unison with destiny's......

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Categories: foundry, absence, baby, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Foundry
...What is… inherent, what’s not… implied Epiphanous moments —waiting inside (Bryn Mawr College: January, 2021)......

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Categories: foundry, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Disturbution 2
... Wet a glance as the nocturne faded. Deeply rooted was the clause of all men's fears and queries. Nonetheless stagnant to the terms of the ever growing woe-field at dusk. Nevermore would the ......

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Categories: foundry, extended metaphor, rude, solitude,
Form: Imagism
Better Fetter Knowledge
... Peep this boo message, if you dare ... Keyhole knowledge of what cha’ see-hear might give you a fetter scare It’s best not to wanna know, if you can’t handle forced transportatio......

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Categories: foundry, allegory, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Paths To the Foundry
...The World is a testing ground to burn out impurity, a forge of sorts, sorting out infermity. A Threshing floor of chaff and wheat. The bread of life consuming your choices as you eat. Of ......

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Categories: foundry, character,
Form: Rhyme
City Water
...Risen From the springtime flooding along South MLK A sh#t-skinned slimy pipe Pops half way up from a grimy hole Like a gopher molded from iron ore Neck and head periscoping left then right Ti......

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Categories: foundry, cancer, children, city, community,
Form: Free verse
Transcendent and Divine
...Science will never prove The existence of God Science will never disprove The existence of God Its physics pre-emergent Its logic self contained If anything, a tool To measure what’s at hand ......

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Categories: foundry, god,
Form: Free verse

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