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Johns Poems - Poems about Johns

Premium Member Untitled Gray with Spoon - Jasper Johns
the curve of common beauty how it catches the eye creates a reflection captures yet sets you free convinces it's all within grasp set apart from everything causes...

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Categories: johns, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member BURNISTA johns
BURNISTA j encaustic       wax on lime fused   fired for cohesive glossed   effects...

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Categories: johns, art,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member ENCAUTISTA rivera sensor johns
ENCAUTISTA rivera ensor Johns  thermeable molten  resin   made malleable burnished melting  in   luminous freeflowing dimensions  in   pubic patterns...

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Categories: johns, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Between the Clock and the Bed Between Edvard Munch and Jasper Johns
comprehension lingers just outside the frame I'm conscious I linger just inside meaning cannot be construed by looking at the linear piece by piece connected time to occupied space to empty space ...

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Categories: johns, art,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ekphrasis Snapshot Johns
still in the breeze *burnt in the heart a union flag...

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Categories: johns, america, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



The Police and Johns Memory
The police made John jog his memory “Was the car actually a Camry?” John delayed, then got free cigarette Of a brand prized above his Lovette. And he didn’t hear his voice drop “Yes...” Before a second thought’s “More or less.” “Heh! You’ve got my Benson ’n’ Hedges; Quit building round your answers hedges?” “Actually, Cop, an off-white Nissan...

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Categories: johns, cry, death, evil, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
St Johns Newington
Such a beautiful building Airy and spacy and light Just off Hesse Road, a place, For that occasion, just right. One of the trawlermens’ churches A community now scattered and gone But thanks to these old photos It's memory will live on and on. Just a visitor from the Social For years I wandered each street Learning compassion and humilty From many I happened to meet. That...

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Categories: johns, community, memory, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Johns Lent Surprise
John swore the week of Lent he would abstain, from foods that upset his digestion; from all sugars, junk foods and refined grains, anything causing his indigestion. John adhered to his doctor’s suggestions. Though it was quite hard for him to comply John made the effort, he really did try. He lost five pounds and tightened up his belt; looking in the mirror...

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Categories: johns, confidence, fun, poems, poetry,
Form: Dizain
Johns Remorse
If Keats was right and beauty is truth —what lies of this world have we made (University Of Pennsylvania: October, 2013)...

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Categories: johns, beauty, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Died By the Gun Where Have All the Johns Gone
Where have all the John's gone ? they all been murdered by the ones Who have the right to bear arms It was 1963 and I was walking home from school going home for lunch While in Texas something was going to happen to us that would change the nation Someone took a rifle in assassinated John the man...

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Categories: johns, bereavement, brother, death of
Form: Ballad
St Johns Schools
Sprouted from the depth and leapt for the height Tremendous epoch-making in sight Just like a raw gem that transforms on motion Our imaginations are like the ocean Her noble mind in noble thoughts we see Now, see hordes of hospitality over the fee Sons and daughters home-like honied hive Sweet sounds of joy as success rain remains Compiling great students with...

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Categories: johns, education, happiness, school, visionary,
Form: Acrostic
An Old Building By the Saint Johns
AN OLD BUILDING BY THE ST. JOHNS Prose and fingers lingering to the North arise! On this day 25 degrees North of the Sun Venus and the moon shall collide and dance Chance! The St. Johns and a ripple to the retaining nipple Look! Abandoned worn jewel on a starved stepped slab Timeless in presence, structured for intimacy Star quenching its thirst through the...

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Categories: johns, nature, passion, giggle,
Form: Verse
A Johns Poopposterous- Darwin Was Here
Went to pick a bone all I found was fossils Lost within Smithsonian's flood colossal A giant petrified dodo Just a rendering who knew Excretions of artistic apostle ~ ...

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Categories: johns, allegory, funny, science,
Form: Free verse
The St.Johns River Rafter
love,a slipper,a glove.the tea is sweet,little bo peep,keep your endeavors,i here,forever.to sheer a sheep,little bo peep.indeed keep your false friend until the end.the mend is soft and complete with tune,loves a sand dune and i lack a broom.some soon rather than later,i,the mouth of an alligator....

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Categories: johns, love
Form: Prose Poetry
Ode To the St. Johns River, Jacksonville, Fl
My Saint John flow on Through forest, marsh and town's spread Tablecloth of stars Conquistadors gone The blue herons walk alone In moonlight's silence River and lone night Memory is a wind's hope Rustling swamps for gold Let us keep our thoughts In slow meandering lakes The salt sea invites Less Timucuan Waken find us new remnants In Ferdinand's dream Love wilts in salt tears The heart snakes the bush of...

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Categories: johns, allegory, nature
Form: Haiku

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