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Impedimenta
Impedimenta Poems - Poems about Impedimenta
A Flogging Rain
...We carry small talk above our heads, ceilings drip clouds. Nothing is put away. Coats dangle over chairs in layers. Drugged by spate and mizzle, denim droops, snagged over rummage and the outst......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
impedimenta,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Land
...We were pleased to claim this land for Jesus. We raised cities that were bear free. Our faith in 'better and bigger' soared; meth fueled crime leapt still greater. Cracks appeared where a gari......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
impedimenta,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Land
...A sinewy faith built rough cabins. We were pleased to claim this land for Jesus. We raised cities that were bear free. Everything soared; later crime and meth rose even higher. Cracks app......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
impedimenta,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Leavings
...When I am only an almanac of belonging left behind I will leave a son who will move on allowing me time to pick his pockets of the sins of his father. There will be grandchildren tucked away ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
impedimenta,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Saving the Gray
...Suddenly over the sudden years I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross - the weight of sundry uncharted days. Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder and not the broken spool......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
impedimenta,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Green Eggs, Spam and Grits
...Green eggs, Spam and grits Sam and Pam had their fill, Then made their way to Main Street Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill. Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors To show them that they cared. All smiled ......
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Mark Toney
Categories:
impedimenta,
bullying, cat, courage, fantasy,
Form:
Light Verse
When First These White Walls Were New and Porcelaneously Gleaming
...Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies And things papered, paneled, plastered... Yet, 'tis so no more. Now all is white and wan and sickly, And the ghostly shadows of the accoutre......
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Douglas Cate
Categories:
impedimenta,
absence, allegory, angst, anniversary,
Form:
I do not know?
An Impermissible and Impossible Thing
...Were it not a thing impermissible, I'd take handfuls of all these silly bits of Simulacra, and detritus, dross and debris: The minutiae and impedimenta that are all these Constricting, confini......
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Douglas Cate
Categories:
impedimenta,
allusion, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
I do not know?
Ins and Outs Part 4
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts. Part 3 Dr. D. confers in panic with Rex and boys at the Limbo Sa......
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Walter Alter
Categories:
impedimenta,
how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Stephanus Marcus 5
...Stephanus Marcus Book I Canto I Verses 8 and 9 Swords, bucklers, "apparatus belli" seen, all shields escutheoned by their family sign. Pass gate, across bridged moat, on road called Queen, ra......
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Alfred Berggren
Categories:
impedimenta,
england,
Form:
Rhyme
Intentional Connection
...To be less of such impedimenta and far more of intention instead of solitary and more of intentional connection What is there to be discovered in bar code religion that the centuries of a mou......
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Colin Mitchell Williams
Categories:
impedimenta,
god,
Form:
Free verse