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Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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john steinbeck, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Witch
"50 Words for Poe: Witch"
She liked driving fast
The number plate in the dust
Read DOT.OZ.LimaLimaBrava
Their destination was Wichita
Foot to the Floor
Off Route 66 Silver Lady purred
Some Kansas backwater
Galena sped by in a blur
He...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, adventure, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
She is a River
“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s...
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john steinbeck, allegory, america, freedom, humanity, leadership, life, world,
Form:
Verse
'blood' Brothers Or 'Bloody' Brothers Under the Banner - Parts 1 and 2
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.”
“A strong man makes a weak people. A strong people don’t need a strong man.”
John Steinbeck (Nobel...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, political, brother, lost, people, brother, lost, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Influences
In youth I learned to jump
First off steps, then rooftops
Spirit of adventure
Nurtured in the heart of a child
Preschool acrobat twirling on my head
Grandma swatted my bottom
Repeated words like Tomboy
Never learned to be ladylike
Catholic school discipline
Uniforms,...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Innheritance
The Inheritance
When my mother died, she had a flat
Belonging to social security and the was nothing
Of inheritance to speak about
She had a bookshelf full of books. Most belonged and
Were stolen at the local library...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, appreciation, beauty, bereavement, best friend, betrayal,
Form:
Blank verse
A Writers Life
A WRITERS LIFE
There is on Facebook pictures of dead film stars
like Elisabeth Taylor, who was born in London
and photos of her childhood.
I don´t really care about this. We should remember her
as...
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john steinbeck, america, best friend, books, corruption,
Form:
Blank verse
I Wish Cesar Chavez Was Here
I wish Cesar was here
now
Someone who know how important
farm workers are, giving them a strong
voice,
You got to see this empire
and how it has exploited all the life
that built it,
And all the money spent to...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, america, analogy, anniversary,
Form:
Choka
Oh, the Tragedy! (For Dr. Ram's Contest)
John Steinbeck won the Nobel and Pulitzer prize
For his stories about struggles of the common man
His novel “The Grapes of Wrath” will bring tears to your eyes
...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, on writing and words
Form:
Sonnet
Favourite Novelists
Favourite Novelists
Of all the American writers I knew of
some favourites remain, like Theodore Dreiser.
John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck and
Ernest Hemingway. I mentioning him the last,
although I admired his writing, still does
immensely, he...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, april, aubade, bangla, beach, best friend,
Form:
Blitz
Bad Luck Pearl
I have found what I consider a great prize:
In an oyster was a pearl of enormous size.
The villagers have all flocked around me.
This great jewel is what they have come to see.
This could bring my...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, adventure, grief, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
The Summer of My Enlightenment
4 matches left
for John Steinbeck @ Annabel Lee@of course E.A.POE
Chickens; a roaring rooster
An old house filled with flys
and many bugs
Many Mexican neighbor
Friend
no water no elec
No Amends
Romans 11: 29
" For...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, baptism,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Grapes of Wrath Revisited
John Steinbeck wrote the story
Of the Okie family Joad as they
Travelled down their bleak
Hard California bound road.
Tractored out by the Cats
After the bank had foreclosed,
No feelings of welcome as
They’d hoped and supposed.
Woody Guthrie sang...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, class, humanity, philosophy, power, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Star Spangled Banner
Since I was a small child and would try to sing,
when we rise and sing the praises of "Old Glory,"
it brings tears to my eyes. Maybe it's because we
have endured much to keep our flag...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, appreciation, emotions, freedom, winter,
Form:
Haibun
The Trip To Walley World
Clark Griswold, what a dumb fool you are.
Who wants to drive across the country in a car?
California from Chicago is a bit too far.
You were duped by a car salesman’s chicanery.
That Wagon Queen Truckster is...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, family, holiday, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Charles Phillips
The modern immortal -
man of open heart, singer of the stars.
Professor at the prestigious university.
Prose stylist as John Steinbeck.
In your poems,
your prosody has melody –
rhythmic scansion
as Paderewski’s music.
...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, america,
Form:
Verse
Delusions of Poetry
She was half past metrical
quarter nonsensical theatrics,
bordered south of burbled oddities,
fashioned herself enigmatically stated
whorling an overly zealous lexicon,
recklessly aimed for macrocosmos
...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, crazy, hyperbole, identity, muse, poems, poetry, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Fully Booked 1
We harvested the grapes in late autumn
when ripeness of love was at its best,
but deceit in the time of maturing
changed the passion to wrath and unrest.
Acerbic vinegar replaced sweet wine
and richness of flavour ceased...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, betrayal, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Kiss the Rain
We farmers are sliding deeper into the hole.
The drought has caused a devastating dust bowl.
Unlike the Joads who moved out the California,
this family wants to keep its feet in Oklahoma.
Failures of the crops has really...
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Categories:
john steinbeck, family, rain,
Form:
Rhyme