Boston
...Millions and millions of bricks
Tons and tons of concrete
Lord only knows how many panes of glass
Granite, Marble, and cobblestone too
Build a city strong, steeped in history
The Adams, Otis, ...
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Categories:
ironsides, america, city,
Form: Free verse
Treading Water
...Treading hard in a sea of lies
With anchor feet and foggy eyes,
Can we yet float another day
With no ship to take us away?
When seas were calm, we saw the shore.
With swelling seas, we see no ...
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Categories:
ironsides, endurance, fate, fear, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Old Ironsides
...massive oak timbers
hearty men piped to action
mighty war machine
planks resisted cannonballs
like our nation, still afloat...
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Categories:
ironsides, analogy, endurance, patriotic, power,
Form: Tanka
50's and 60's Weird Tv On Channel Three - Part 2
... Continued from Part 1
Matt Dillon chases Jack LaLane
Around a roller derby lane
I think I need some more cocaine,
So please don’t ever come back Shane
I try to walk another street...
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Categories:
ironsides, parody, night, me, night,
Form: Rhyme
Call To Arms
...Arise all you, with swords in hands,
and march as one, our ironsides.
Invaders come to take our lands,
our homes, our children and our brides.
Aloft the wind does take the sound
of foreign armie...
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Categories:
ironsides, war
Form: Verse
Old Ironsides
...Only silence dresses her rigging now
To the call of the bosun’s whistle
Her hatches now stand locked and secure
Where long past sailors once lingered
She is the last of the old frigates
Moored i...
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Categories:
ironsides, history, inspirational, loss, mystery,
Form: Free verse