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Piedmont Poems - Poems about Piedmont


Premium Member The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
...I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it fail......

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Categories: piedmont, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Elena
...North Carolina ballerina, sweet lady of the Piedmont, she so sterling, died from the selfishness of a drunk driver. Gliding into a pirouette as she enters God's garden of youth. The anguish......

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Categories: piedmont, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Motion Practice
...Seven Morning Stars In the western Carpathian piedmont Which my grandfathers left long before, The peregrine falcon flees likewise From a tableau of fresco tradition, Superstition, and tempera......

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Categories: piedmont, allegory, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Dream of Infinity
...Dream of Infinity by Michael R. Burch Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair? Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air that your soul sought its shell like a cr......

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Categories: piedmont, confusion, depression, dream, farewell,
Form: Couplet
Observance
...Observance by Michael R. Burch Here the hills are old and rolling carefully in their old age; on the horizon youthful mountains bathe themselves in windblown fountains... By dying leaves an......

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Categories: piedmont, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet



Eye of the Storm
...I was ten when Hurricane Hazel passed over our farm in the Piedmont of North Carolina with gusts exceeding 100mph. I really wanted to see that eye. On the pretext of needing to check my weather stat......

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Categories: piedmont, feelings, september, storm,
Form: Haibun
A Perfect Day
...Some days are almost crystalline in the memory: they shine like diamonds in the blue perspective of the distant past. winter wind a broken branch lit by gray-green lichens New Year's......

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Categories: piedmont, appreciation, earth, january, winter,
Form: Haibun
Forever Atlanta
...Feel the sun, and enjoy the breeze of spring, Opening your door to let winter out. React to the pollen, watching it cling Everywhere, because of the long drought. Visit the Easter Bunny at the ma......

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Categories: piedmont, lifeeaster,
Form: Acrostic
Thoughts of a Caregiver
...I tried so hard, but you were too fast, clicking gracefully on high heels down the shady block, laughing at me plodding in saddlebacks: Can't you keep up? I tried so hard, but you were too slow, ......

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Categories: piedmont, caregiving, daughter, death, devotion,
Form: I do not know?

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