Long Steinbeck Poems
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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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Categories:
steinbeck, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
I have known:
of wise detectives catching crooks
of "Thought Police" revising books
a shipwrecked family named Robinson
of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic
Heathcliff's...
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Categories:
steinbeck, books,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
steinbeck, adventure, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
A Slant In Time
What is time?
But a rotation of the planets,
A love gone to the wind,
Or a setting of the sun?
Sometimes we can’t tell the day,
But by the bottle we drink.
Or the...
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Categories:
steinbeck, philosophyworld, love,
Form:
I do not know?
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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Categories:
steinbeck, allegory, america, freedom, humanity, leadership, life, world,
Form:
Verse
Andrew Billy Joyce
He’s Hemingways whiskey, he’s vodka on ice
Smoke on the water, a roll of the dice
Magic and mirrors illusion to most
Thumbing his way from east coast to west coast
He’s lived on the brink, on the edge...
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Categories:
steinbeck, books, dedication, friendship, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
'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:
steinbeck, political, brother, lost, people, brother, lost, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Camp
The smell of wood smoke drifts through
The air with no presence of mind to settle anywhere
Except on the clothes of old men who struggle to
Open tin cans with the anticipation of a child with
An...
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Categories:
steinbeck, addiction, anxiety, emotions, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Grapes of Mirth
As death mimics love itself and clutch a throbbing heart,
kindling consolation to savor flight, farther and farther
beyond the inner yelps released as vibrating soar easily,
stimulating stress to execute its portion and naught idle,
merely trounce...
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Categories:
steinbeck, death, destiny, happiness, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
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:
steinbeck, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Library (Words To the Wise)
The Library (Words to the Wise)
Shhhhh! No talking strictly enforced!
Most folks abide, except children, of course
And those who can’t read, don’t care, or don’t want
Goof off in the corners, or sneeze
As sharp, darting eyes...
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Categories:
steinbeck, education, on writing and words, philosophy, places,
Form:
I do not know?
Influences 2 American Dreams
It was old Woody that lured me with
Dust Bowl Ballads and so much more
Telling stories of a West
That I'd never heard before.
I was with the Okies as
They travelled down the road
Got a new...
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Categories:
steinbeck, america, dream, growing up, inspiration, music,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
steinbeck, appreciation, beauty, bereavement, best friend, betrayal,
Form:
Blank verse
Dust Bowl Ballads
Listening to the Boss Singing
The Ghost of Tom Joad,
Imagining the Okies as they
Travelled their Desolation Road.
Word Pictures by Steinbeck,
Dust Bowl Ballads by Guthrie,
Green Pastures Of Plenty
Pretty Boy Floyd, Doh Ray Mi.
Ecological disaster,
Dust and...
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Categories:
steinbeck, change, environment, future,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Categories:
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:
steinbeck, america, analogy, anniversary,
Form:
Choka
The End of Chumley's Tavern
I’ve strolled down Bedford from Barrow,
maybe a couple times or more.
When I would get to 86,
I headed through the garden door.
I felt inspiration flowing,
from the rafters down to the floor.
Words for future generations,
by the authors...
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Categories:
steinbeck, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
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:
steinbeck, april, aubade, bangla, beach, best friend,
Form:
Blitz
The Consequences of Typos
The Consequences of Typos
By Elton Camp
A typo can be far from a minor thing
Discredit and rejection it can bring
See what such errors might have meant
And if these would have gone to print
This book from Papa...
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Categories:
steinbeck, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
steinbeck, adventure, grief, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Watching Tornado Warnings In Oklahoma
will it pass this way again?
nobody knows because the community
library
has to many paperbacks and the clouds
to many sins.
will twain swirl in the rain?
will steinbeck hit the deck?
will it...
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Categories:
steinbeck, absence,
Form:
Blank verse
The Untitled Self
For who so ever comes to their ruin,
I’ve been there before.
Your devastation is my pain,
While your happiness is my cane.
Though, the lines I’ve drawn,
Speak little and more.
Your smile fills me with shame,...
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Categories:
steinbeck, introspection
Form:
I do not know?
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:
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:
steinbeck, class, humanity, philosophy, power, society,
Form:
Rhyme