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Grantham Poems - Poems about Grantham

Silence
...Keep your words close —but silence closer (Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)......

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Categories: grantham, silence,
Form: Free verse
Only What Is
...You can’t alter reality with an opinion You can’t alter reality with a drug To alter reality, you must force away time Defining the indefinable —leaving only what is (Grantham New Ha......

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Categories: grantham, time,
Form: Free verse



Contraband
...Do you play inside the Corn Flakes, or are corn stalks more you game Is that Hersey Bar the answer, or the cocoa or cocaine Do you clerk for someone’s feelings, inspiration to be damned Y......

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Categories: grantham, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
A Smoldering Refrain
...Straddling the candle, too close to the flame A fiery benediction —a smoldering refrain (Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)......

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Categories: grantham, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Truth To Thaw
...A hunter of the frozen past… I stalk all glaciered time To kill the demon inside the ice, with eyes that burn—its truth to thaw (Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)......

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Categories: grantham, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Morgan Freeman Got It Right
...There is no… African American history, Native American history, Irish American history, Italian American history, German American history, Chinese American history, Hispanic American h......

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Categories: grantham, america, history,
Form: Free verse
Still To Run
...Your page now short on substance, yet colorful the rhyme The words used in abundance, where lesser might define Intention slave to beauty, all meaning zero sum Pageantry lost in the wind ......

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Categories: grantham, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Smoldering Refrain
...Straddling the candle, too close to the flame A fiery benediction —a smoldering refrain (Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)......

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Categories: grantham, fire,
Form: Rhyme
The Moment Sustained
...Each verbal success leads to higher new ground Where the words beck and call with a heavenly sound The trail to my future fades into my past As the gift they inspire —my present......

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Categories: grantham, time, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Piper
...Drunk on the fear of our own misgivings, we stagger and stray… —toward the sound of the piper (Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)......

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Categories: grantham, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Lord
...Deep into the night of the harrowing dawn, old voices went astray And fast on the morning of no return, final judgment came to stay Crashing like a wave was the prophet’s voice, this t......

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Categories: grantham, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Hard Won
...We can all think differently While instantaneously feeling the same We can politically straddle the great divide While below loving the canyons and plains We can put all pre......

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Categories: grantham, freedom, together,
Form: Rhyme
Changed Into Song
...Will the pieces of the life you’ve lived come together at the end? Will the times that you reflected straighten your path out, free of bends? Are the places that you visited more than ......

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Categories: grantham, song, words,
Form: Rhyme
Perform a U - Turn
...It should be really easy To get to Grantham right on time Unless, that is, your Sat Nav Is as troublesome as mine I have the postcode ready And I’m sure I’ve got it right But my Sat Nav seems......

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Categories: grantham, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Constant Cycle
...CONSTANT CYCLE Through the window my soul has gone into that light and glory of new born day. Indeed again I have ascended death. To what duty is owed within myself as some payment for this life. ......

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Categories: grantham, bible,
Form: Ballad

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