At the Graves Gate
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"A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, fate, grave, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Of Crows and Possums
...Sitting on a long deck
At a trailer
In South Georgia
Wind in the Pine Trees
Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne
My stomach is empty
except for
this longing and guilt
A murder of Crows
loudly soa...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, angst, betrayal, books, divorce,
Form: Free verse
The Call of Fall
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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fall
Whispers
Quietly
Playing gently
Dancing leaves, breathl...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, seasons,
Form: Ninette
Zinnia Vibes
...“A flower of strange beauty, growing in a desolate spot, and blossoming in the wind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blooming zinnias, swaying in the breeze,
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nathaniel hawthorne, beautiful, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Pockets of Moon and Men
...*Image of The Moon Looking At Full by Pixabay.
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered a...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, longing, love, men, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Saturday Night In Relegation
...A word once spelled out
Defining what Saturday Night was all about
Lads from Bay City
Scene colorful, enchanting, and ever so pretty
Roller and rocking
Having one number that...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, america, health, literature, london,
Form: Rhyme
Time
..."Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I sneer at grandfather clock, standing in the hall,...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, angst, time,
Form: Rhyme
For Stone To Swim
...I, cold ... cold as stone ...
But is that not befitting such as I?
Once, merely common, hidden deep in the earth,
Still, my quality made itself known ... my porcelain perfection
Shone in th...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, analogy, art, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Ekphrasis
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast
...Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Haw...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Thousand Steps
...The rule of a legend is, that it is possibly true but there is not ever enough proof, yet I heard from a friend, that dozens of children have died and
many others, at the Thousand Step...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, adventure, boy, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
I Want My Life
...Even miserable, but my own,
I gladly take it without the scorn.
I have blurry ideas of whom to become
and no religious extremism of long ago,
such as Salem Trials and brain control.
Was it ju...
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Categories:
nathaniel hawthorne, addiction,
Form: Verse