a hand cart and a ring
...A Handcart and a Ring
A man I knew had a handcart and became self-employed
I often saw him in the town with a load of parcels and sometimes furniture
He was a contented man.
One day, on his ...
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Categories:
handcart, 2nd grade, absence, allegory,
Form: ABC
The Day Nothing Happened
...A day when nothing happened
It was a harmless morning my old friends had married
When I was at sea, a boiled egg for breakfast
took the bus to the docks, I had a dingy there and tried my luck f...
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Categories:
handcart, absence, caregiving, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse
What Is the Order
...I get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with the laptop ...
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Categories:
handcart, 8th grade, absence, america,
Form: Narrative
Roland's Tower Part Ii
...The gunslinger entered the tiny town of Tull
A town that was cast under his enemy's spell.
First smiles, then lies, last gunfire came,
Then Tull lay dead, in the gunslinger's name.
Through the hu...
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Categories:
handcart, adventure, allegory, analogy, boy,
Form: Ballad
Small Things
...Small Beginnings
To record the simple things in life is important because they are a mirror
of everyday folks life. “A Person collided with a hand cart a suitcase fell
off and was damaged,” t...
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Categories:
handcart, birth, blessing, blue, boat,
Form: Sonnet
Handcart and a Ring
...A Handcart and a Ring
A man I knew had a handcart and became self- employed
I often saw him in the town having a load of parcels and
sometimes pieces of furniture, he was a contented man.
One ...
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Categories:
handcart, age, analogy, angst, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Just Desserts of the Faithful
...The Martin Handcart Company endured
a frightful winter in their journey west.
Yet through it all, they would not be deterred,
for with strong faith and hope these Saints were blessed.
Louisa Mellor,...
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Categories:
handcart, faith, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Vampire Moon (1)
...On Bourbon Street in the vertical rain,
In the dominance of shadowed domain,
Where the swamp gas reeks of a distant death,
Faint and remote like a dying breath,
Steam rises up from the cobbled gr...
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Categories:
handcart, death, life, people, places,
Form: Narrative