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High Backed Poems - Poems about High Backed


Premium Member 3rd wheeling
...(A Christmas vacation vignette) Lisa and I choppered onto Manhattan Island yesterday morning. We’d both felt toasted—so we took naps—and yay! We awoke recharged. Later that evening, Lisa and I ......

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Categories: high backed, boyfriend, christmas, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member EBENEZER
...Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’ve come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Robert Robinson’s hymn Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing To raise an......

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Categories: high backed, christmas,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Armchair Warriors
...Armchair Warriors They sit in their high-backed armchairs behind their ominous desks. Fighting wars and hiding behind their outraged words. Words that condemn the actions of history. They critici......

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Categories: high backed, war,
Form: Free verse
In An Old London Tavern
...The warm, dark wood of high-backed stalls enclosed us like a womb, and, nose to nose, we talked with eyes, oblivious of the room. You shone with special radiance that welle......

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Categories: high backed, love,
Form: Quatrain
Castle Gate
...It was the time before the celebration on Saint Peter’s day, when the noble page took a fine white scroll and was glad upon his way. For a bird had whispered in this good page’s ear that what he bor......

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Categories: high backed, humor, nonsense,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Grandfather
... My Grandfather High-backed chair facing the corner, Window over books so cherished Loved. Like the greatest of scholars, but still humble He was a trove of stories Air of silence on a place......

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Categories: high backed, childhood, death, family, history,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member My Boy / Bridgeport Ct 1981
...The images plucked from a full soft drive like over blown berries threatening to fall……blasted to the humus. Swing chains creak. The high-backed, heart carved, chalk white, front porch swing sways;......

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Categories: high backed, childhoodhouse, school, house, school,
Form: Free verse
Care
...High-backed chairs around the walls Frame their faces, A gallery of despair. Daytime TV droning daily Offering tips On cooking and hair. Care workers lift, soothe, wipe, Meaning well Distribu......

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Categories: high backed, caregivingold, old,
Form: Free verse

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