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Greatcoat Poems - Poems about Greatcoat


Greatcoat
...I'm my day the Army Was very frugal with our kit. Whenever possible if seemed They recycled every bit. My Greatcoat had certainly Been around for a while; It was of a different cloth And of a......

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Categories: greatcoat, clothes, memory, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whole In the Ground
...He wrapped his remains into his souls’ coffin at the cemetery An oracle told him to be aware of gravediggers at the boneyard Under cover of a midnight moon he sought solace and closure Remov......

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Categories: greatcoat, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Three Points Off the Dow Jones
...I'm not sure who you were speaking to but the man in the greatcoat assumed it was him and he could have been 'the thin man' or 'the third man' but not the 'bird man of Alcatraz' see me and it's j......

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Categories: greatcoat, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Joe,
...Ah, the life surreal.  Nothing like wearing the weirdness like a greatcoat as I sip bad hotel coffee and muse over where the last few years have taken me while watching ice flow around old tires stuc......

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Categories: greatcoat, humor,
Form: Prose
This Ol' House
...This ol' house where I was born and raised, Had no insulation and weren't double glazed. Had a slanted slate roof, it leaked now and then, Lots of places where you could build a den. Had a cellar......

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Categories: greatcoat, feelings, growing up, house,
Form: Rhyme



Tears Dry With the Vision
...someone once said, when your child is born, that’s when you start dying, generations ahead, stand up to those left behind, but I, in the strangeness, of the complex and now, pass by the c......

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Categories: greatcoat, memory, war,
Form: Free verse
Five Flowers and a Funeral
...Like bullet holes in a starched white shirt, they prop the gravestone in the dirt, a ruby stitch across the face of veined pale marble carapace. They held my gaze that winter day, beneath blac......

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Categories: greatcoat, death, introspection, life, sad,
Form: Verse

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