Kilns Poems - Poems about Kilns

Sleeping Outside

...

A week of summer heat
with no cooling breeze
or break made bedrooms 
like brick kilns 
still hot after a day's firing.
You couldn't sleep.
Air conditioning back then
was a couple of loud,
...

Earth Pollution

...The skyline merges with the sky.
As I observe kilns and ovens high,
Their smoke rising up to the clouds,
In a heated chamber, pollution enshrouds

The furnace roars with fiery heat.
...

Ballad of the Harecastle Tunnel

...The moon shone on the water
Dyed ochre by the iron mines. 
Centuries of men have toiled 
In trenches and in chines. 
Carving through the sheer rock face
To tunnel under hills
Canals to link the...

Christmas Jingles 3 - the Dear Old Woman Is Sad and Blue

...Dear old woman who lives in a shoe
The dear old woman who’s house is a shoe 
For Christmas she doesn't know what she can do
She can't afford beer for seasonal cheer...

Amphorae

...Amphorae, beautifully crafted,
Delicate, exquisite, fire-glazed, 
Heated in jumbo kilns,
Lovely molded necks, 
Opaque pigments, 
Quartzite residue- 
Symbolic, timeless, utilitarian
Valued- wit...

A To Bee

...alighting
bees
ceding
deeply
easily
foraging
garnishing
homesteads
into
joyous
kilns
lithely
moving
nourishment
over
parading
queen
routinely
screening
their
unborn
valiantly
we...

And Still I Drive - Part Two

...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhea...

Kilns and Violins

...Dark place

my place

standing water

violin frogs...so very quiet.



Where is my voice

where are the lungs

flung into wells of fire

another day for the kiln

another day    som...

The Black Casket

...First draft 

I

By his deeds he was duly judged
And by his greed he was condemned
To the bowels far beneath the Earth-
Cursed tenfold to rot and feed the maggots unfed.

Stark Kilns was his...

Train of Retrospection

...Platform breezes,
spitting rain,
red brick station,
vintage train.
Take a seat,
relax with ease.
Conductor's voice,
'Your tickets please'

Time to leave,
the whistles cry,
release ...

Holy Relic

...when once my clay hands began to harden
 under the potters wheeled sun 
 i turned to reach for my shadow 
 but found only a basket of dried
 yesterdays and tomorrows.

 when once my clay feet b...

Devoid (Entry For the March Madness Contest)

...The March of Madness has begun,
                                                             (He swaggers around,
                                                                 displaying his gun...

Dilemma

...There was the hunger
and suicide.
In favor of my brutal truth
or virtue of my failure,
I do not want any comments on my trauma.
Morality has a dubious equation
with power, provoking my anger.
...

Dilemma

...There was the hunger
and suicide.
In favor of my brutal truth
or virtue of my failure,
I do not want any comments on my trauma.
Morality has a dubious equation
with power, provoking my anger.
...

Shadows of Yesterday In Me.

...I am the son of Britain and Californian
     Reared of Europe and the American Revolution
Progeny of English countryside and Frisco Bay
     Yet despite all I have come to understand
The puzzle i...

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