Girders Poems - Poems about Girders

...jampacked city streets that jangled and banged in the raucous jarring day shifted from business to boogaloo squeezing into moonlight party lights gin and lime-kissed gimlet sequined dress st......

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...Small stadium built in the late forties, minor-league once, but has been left behind, built with girders and backless, wooden seats, a local relic of an older time. The players look so young, bar......

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...I think of my ancestors building you, Tying and placing tree-trunks, like girders, in queue; They constructed you, then, with stones, Twisted, turned, criss-crossed, hung, dangled in zones; Road ......

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...Of yore, a gold-gilt structure stood tall upon a mountain there it remined on for ages as an ancient vine-veined temple a crumbling ruin tottering on the edge of the world. Within it a ghostl......

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...I saw it being built on the sacred burial ground of a field I had died nobly upon many a time. Dark girders arose riveted to the skyline, ashen boned concrete walls constructed by unseen hands.......

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...Walking way out on the lake atop a cement-block pier Waves lap at its sturdy girders fish swim up to the surface, so near Tiny specks below the horizon boats sail near a shore far away ......

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...........Cactus ....Water Towers Isolated desolates Wrapped in spikes Fluted aqua Greys Or in military green Reaching the skies The desolate cacti The desert fingers Withholding blaze.. De......

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...Wolves howl at the moon shining over the ridge Golden light glancing off the silver steel girders, Slithers of squiggly speckles ripple in the stream After the trotline is suspended between bu......

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...Anchored in the solid granite cliffs On either side of the tree-lined gorge, Above the C&O tracks and rickety shacks Of farmers and miners and naked children Playing in the dirt ‘neat......

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...My friend and I walked across the Pettus Unthreatened like marchers decades ago, The peaceful river below hummed for us A freedom song; we aren't free, although The span is shorter than it use......

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...Where strong and sturdy currents flowed In rhythms like the march, There stood majestic girders In a towering silver arch. With pride, the span was erected Above the swollen run, Where it cau......

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...I. The Settlement Hickory bark bluffs at the blend of two rivers. Gasconade waters buttered with the muddy Missouri. A lookout......

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...revealed obligatory phrases turn out of tone a deafening roar cascades in to the abyss purging spectral visions barred from presenting all in the name of truth yet never to behold perspective len......

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...High above gray Manhattan’s marge, ‘Midst toothsome towers in the sky, A construction crane there looms large, Dwarfing the crowds of passersby. A new building grows, rising high, Clouding an......

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... brush in hand, he breathes life to paper ... columns ... bejeweled and sparkling like blades of shimmering grass piercing the night as star-flecked stalagmites fingers o......

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