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Hawthorne Poems - Poems about Hawthorne

Premium Member At the Graves Gate
...Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com>syllable_counter "A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne **************************************************......

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Categories: hawthorne, fate, grave, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Of Crows and Possums
...Sitting on a long deck At a trailer In South Georgia Wind in the Pine Trees Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne My stomach is empty except for this longing and guilt A murder of Crows loudly soa......

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Categories: hawthorne, angst, betrayal, books, divorce,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member American Cacophony
...Microtonal mayhem misses the mark a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets groaning ghosts pluck piano strings extramusical praise: present (& past/future) we're going around & round (sings......

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Categories: hawthorne, dark, music, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weekend Warrior on a Bicycle
...I cycled to Hawthorne before the dawn, Saw a deer on Taxter Road leading a fawn. I reached a field of the kids little League. Waited for the train, too pumped for fatigue. The train passed by l......

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Categories: hawthorne, adventure, nature,
Form: Lyric
A Scarlet Ode to Hawthorne
...My shame is my scarlet letter Sewn stitch by stitch by years A scarlet letter emblazoned An alphabet on my chest A superhero’s symbol disguised Find me a phone booth Tear off my Brook B......

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Categories: hawthorne, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member June Bride
... We sometimes congratulate ourselves the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. ~Hawthorne I finally found a man that grows fuchsias as pretty a......

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Categories: hawthorne, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Call of Fall
... “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall Whispers Quietly Playing gently Dancing leaves, breathl......

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Categories: hawthorne, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, seasons,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member Wildflowers of the Burren
... the word barren means rocky land a perfect name for a vast limestone area in the The Barrens of Ireland it is a desolate place with few trees except for the Ha......

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Categories: hawthorne, places, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Everything Is Peachy Keen
...Peachy Keen was thrown into the ether by a young disc jockey His name was Jim Hawthorne, and it was nineteen forty-eight Hailing from Pasadena, California, he was loved by the teenage crowd Always......

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Categories: hawthorne, word play,
Form: Free verse
World Poetry Day
...N. Hawthorne encouraged us to do anything, something, (heroic?) even though life brings huge discouragement: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, that life is but an empty dream ..." PSALM OF LIFE ......

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Categories: hawthorne, beauty, books, faith, voice,
Form: Light Verse
Priory Woods 2022
...I walk through the pristine green Follow the footpath around And finally arrive at the unkempt Natural burial ground. The field has matured over The past ten years The Hawthorne now overshado......

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Categories: hawthorne, lost love, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zinnia Vibes
...“A flower of strange beauty, growing in a desolate spot, and blossoming in the wind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Blooming zinnias, swaying in the breeze, ......

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Categories: hawthorne, beautiful, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Meg and the Sun
...The sun got tangled in the branches of an old Hawthorne. Daybreak hung down in grey strips, like a torn parachute among the knuckled finger-bones of the grasping tree. Meg, the younger sist......

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Categories: hawthorne, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When
...I When you have used up nerve, muscle, sinew To be all you dreamed for others and for you Then the soul alone can make you move at all That is how U write like Rumi, Emily, Hawthorne II When ......

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Categories: hawthorne, analogy, angst, change, character,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Listen To the Songbird
...robin's melody rings true from the Hawthorn tree~ sweet sound among thorns.......

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Categories: hawthorne, bird, tree,
Form: Haiku

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