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Pennants Poems - Poems about Pennants

Ode to a Journalist
...You made up your mind to view the world With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre, Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled Man and beast......

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Categories: pennants, dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Moorings
...Daddy, there are new moorings, come see! There are shiny pontoon chains and cables, braided ropes and colorful pennants. The anchors and piles and buoys all new! He arose groggily and without a......

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Categories: pennants, boat, faith, metaphor, sea,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Soul Scavengers
...They scavenge the detritus of the soul Devouring the pieces less than whole For evil has a way of taking hold Before it declares itself as friend or foe As these hollow creatures feed within T......

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Categories: pennants, america, power, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Cadets Dress Ship
...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in The cadets all fell in with nary a din For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship” To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip Well-t......

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Categories: pennants, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Breeze Lifts My Spirits
...Roses look redder Sunflowers sunnier Chrysanthemums brighter Queen Anne's lace whiter Leaves waving like pennants Puffy clouds sail along Grass green and refreshed ......

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Categories: pennants, color, flower, uplifting, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Wounder
...Rest of a dry wound on the skin, it stretches if it gets wet later, it wrinkles if no one dries it afterwards: stains that we carry with us. Yesterday I saw torn yellow pennants hanging in the hall o......

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Categories: pennants, pain, world,
Form: Prose
It's Back My Chronic Companion Returns
...Not sure how fond I am of this write very different style to my usual genre. #experimenting Well look whos back again My old compardra My closest companion chronic pain What a lovely way to ......

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Categories: pennants, anxiety, dark, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaves
...Leaves, green with sap of lush Spring trees Flutter as branch bound butterflies, Whistling tunes in Summer breeze Backing cicada mating songs. Well-seasoned leaves blistered with rust Fly as p......

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Categories: pennants, autumn, butterfly, seasons, spring,
Form: Free verse
Tear Crocodile Bush
...If pray A burning bush Twas to appear I fear Crocodile tears May not be enough To quell It's flammable design In time for next pennants And confessions......

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Categories: pennants, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Opening Day With a Little Delay
...Opening Day with a Little Delay Take me out to the ball game Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball; Foul balls, the pick off, intentiona......

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Categories: pennants, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunday Night Serenade
... It was a very humid day. However,the leaves are waving at the sun. Like pennants at a football game. The branches of the trees doing a belly dance at close of this day. The kitchen sme......

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Categories: pennants, home, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Real Love Not Based On Cotton Balls
...Real love takes up residence deeply in the heart. Two lucky ones, are focused in, not out, at the start. From the inside can't see the outside, so it makes no difference. Especially to men, wh......

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Categories: pennants, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nothing's the Same Now
...Pennants' edges curling up, peeling away from fading walls-- Lions listless, languid, lost ~ Tigers timid, tame, tepid-- Floorboards waxed like glass, nothing strewn, no disarray, no chunks of p......

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Categories: pennants, loss, sad,
Form: Verse
Windbreak Trees
...WINDBREAK TREES Unchecked prairie wind cold Engulfs our archipelago Of barns and farms, Small snuggled refuges Swathed in birch, oak and ash, Warm yellows oranges. St......

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Categories: pennants, tree, wind,
Form: Imagism
Still Swinging
...After chewing shoe leather they called steak, in the Pencey cafeteria, Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus, on the bus, and in a restaurant. We walked across a puffy white ......

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Categories: pennants, appreciation, brother, cancer, death,
Form: Prose Poetry

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