Long Atticus Poems
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Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
atticus, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
atticus, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung HeroesTo Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and evil can coexist within a particular...
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Categories:
atticus, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Intermission: Ad Infinitum Lux Vitae
"Intermission: Ad Infinitum Lux Vitae"
Intermission
I wait
You call
I have loved
I wait
Lux Vitae
I have loved
Through the Storm
Lux Vitae
I have loved, to love You more
Through the Storm
You call, Open Door
I have loved, to love You more
Ad Infinitum
You...
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Categories:
atticus, birth, cancer, courage, daughter, death, faith, god,
Form:
Pantoum
The One That Got Away - Silence of What IfsIf a poet falls in love with you
you will live forever.
Atticus Finch - To kill a mockingbird.
In the midst of conundrums, of 'what ifs.'
I dislike the ocean,
its bitter saltiness, brings no joy.
Perched safely, upon the...
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Categories:
atticus, loss, love, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Hours of Flowers*The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid*
6 million or more flowers to honor the dead
It's such a little thing-- remembrance, with flowers
a labor of love that would take many hours
Hardly even a start to...
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Categories:
atticus, art, flower, garden, holocaust, poets, prayer, remember,
Form:
Couplet
Brokenhearted"We were
strange in love,
her and I.
Too wild to last,
too rare to die."
...
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Categories:
atticus, heartbroken, true love,
Form:
Rhyme
Poisoning Our Mind From a GlassWe live our lives so free and easy
not thinking for a moment all we hear
stop for a moment think what you've heard
even in past 24 hours so much so near
Our minds taking into our thoughts
so...
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Categories:
atticus, culture, life, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Back In the DayBefore Matilda, before Harry Potter and Hermione Granger,
When I was a child, there was Pippi Longstocking, full of danger.
Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden were my mystery go-to books.
You could not rouse me from their adventures...
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Categories:
atticus, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Wide eyed readerI look for you in the stars,
and in the streets,
and all the people I greet.
I look for you in books of poetry.
Such a place to find,
yet unaware that I'm
lost, like a button.
Arrive home from...
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Categories:
atticus, child, remember,
Form:
Free verse
HopeIn the tangle of if and but, we reside,
Decisions unmade, regrets as our guide.
Stuck in a quagmire, unable to soar,
A frost-covered window blocking the door.
A message I received late at night, to which I replied:
With...
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Categories:
atticus, age, allah, appreciation, books, career, death, fate,
Form:
Quatrain
Smoke Screen of SuspenseSmoke Screen of Suspense
Was such a smoke screen of suspense;
Seemed to start getting more intense;
Labored a while;
Had been style;
Riot they did incense with their incense.
Perfect can be created with much practice,
Unless you happen to be...
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Categories:
atticus, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick