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Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III




Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette

to be delivered...

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Categories: barges, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Children Iv
Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...

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Categories: barges, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canto Xvii Hell Translation
“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”

So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...

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Categories: barges, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Lifeboat To Hunt a Shrill
Part 5

They continued to fry under a blistering sky
    With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
    We have entered the waters of...

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Categories: barges, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Akula
AKULA

Mark and I caught the last plane from Ft. Lauderdale to New Orleans to escape Hurricane Andrew, leaving Akula ,our boat, tied up at Rolly Shipyard to face the wrath alone. The next few hell...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barges, adventure,
Form: Narrative



Odyssey From Africa 15c
Odyssey from Africa 15c (Southland, continued...)

Being rich in skill and talent
He soon gained the feel and measure 
Of the boomerang’s employment 
Sent it arching near the treetops 
 
Then returning where it started
As the king...

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Categories: barges, adventure, africa, history, humanity, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form: Narrative
A Reformed Daughter of the Usa
Perhaps it was a bit of old moral Navy nostalgia misting from Dad's brow as he taught us moral just rule.
At times in my life, honoring my father and mother; one of the ten commandments--...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barges, absence, dad, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Suzie Haus
I had a horse named Suzie Haus when I was twenty-one.
I had wanted her since I was seven, the waiting was finally done.
She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, in the World up...

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Categories: barges, adventure, animals, happiness, introspection, life, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
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141onefortyone 
 
 
 
CharlaXFabels 
EwewonthelotteryNOT 
 

 Dear Recipient: You have won the lottery. 
Please add this address to your address book immediately so that we have our 
fishhookers in you from the...

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Categories: barges, parody, people, places, satire, social, sorry, africa,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Snowy Cliffs With Bouffant Boulders
Even before the arrival of the first snows, so brilliantly candid, 
we climbed mounts less dangerous than the Alps's;
and we proudly chalked it up to our experience.
Now the snowy cliffs with bouffant boulders,
have lost their...

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Categories: barges, adventure, dedication, devotion, family, friendship, funny, happiness,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Venice a Crazy Nice Adventure
Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old 
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, 
     history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. 
Water dominates...

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Categories: barges, adventure, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corners
Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city...

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Categories: barges, holiday, humor, new york, night, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Levees of Time
ON THE LEVEES OF TIME…
   (APROPOS WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE)

When the levees broke…when the levees broke…
     When the levees broke…
When the levees broke the world awoke
   ...

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Categories: barges, america, betrayal, conflict, emotions, faith, hope, water,
Form: Free verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
Manhattan Soliloquy

...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the...

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Categories: barges, dedicationstars,
Form: Imagism
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, tribute,
Form: Verse
Manhatttan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, writing,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, writing,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, writing,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)

 
As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises...

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Categories: barges, dedication,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy Repost
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)
   

As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic,...

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Categories: barges, paradise, writing,
Form: Verse
I Guess I Woke Up Too Soon!
I Guess I Woke Up Too Soon!

The train was coming after me again.
I, a helpless little girl, the evil train tracked.
Like so many times before, the distant sounds warned.
Chugga, shugga, chugga, whoo whoooooo!
Off the rails...

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Categories: barges, angst, childhoodme,
Form: Free verse
Manhattan Soliloquy Re-Post
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)


As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises of
a...

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Categories: barges, love, passion,
Form: Verse
Manhattan Soliloquy (Repost)
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)


As I dream the sounds of morning sliver,
cut my senses; slow, persistent slices
pierce my eyes to ragged wakefulness.
The muffled cries of merchant hustle and
the honking of the traffic, the noises of
a...

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Categories: barges, devotion, imagination, love, on writing and wordsstars,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things