Portland Poems - Poems about Portland

It’s windy eve, inside is free of the wind but not pithy peeves: heaven’s thousand eyes clouded by lights although the sun -rise clouded delights. against cities, (all like-fashioned): moon’s bow stretches dim sky lashes. in walls is warmth confinement, anger the winds withhold comfort not wonder...

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‘Mid two trees Squirrels, maybe four, Maybe five, Maybe more. I glance the floor Sparse blades, short in fall, Scattered Peanut shells, fragments No meat left....

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I drive the night because of open road. My retreads are sounding strong. Hauling cars up from New Orleans Where I'm not sure that I belonged. Traded whiskey for a woman At a bar in Abilene. Then a long haul up to Portland town Helped along by methadrine. ...

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C'mon now, let's go splash onto the shore, Brace ourselves as we race across the sand, Because, of course, you do know this ends war, As we make for the place of Portland. Under another spread sheet lies another one, The line has been drawn in chalk again, yet again, Another splayed body fallen under their gun, This cannot continue, my dear...

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Shameful Portland Another Conservative reporter attacked. The police in Portland would not cover his back. Shame on you Antifa cowards! Hiding behind your cowardly masks. Americans and people of all nations must stop their lunatic fringe, physical attacks. On others who don't follow their leftist tracks. The left is kind only to those of the same mind. This is hogwash and stupidity. So knock off chanting about Peace and War! When it's...

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You are my friend For you gave your life for us Thank you America for believing in the Truth I will always be your friend Even to the death Thank you America...

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The wild berries of the Northwest it seems every path you walk on , they are there for you to sample , Almost as The city of Portland itself is welcoming you with astonishing beauty, the view of a snow tipped Volcano , as if greeting you with a basket full of fresh wild...

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A great brain to be ever remembered As long as history is; A beacon that stood in an extraordinary way When all the rest prostrate lay; A self-made man of no blue-blood descent Who strove to give the ***** his trampled peace; Before it was birthed the blessed day! A great brain to be ever remembered As long as history...

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waiting in line.. in step... in monotones.. at mid afternoon. waiting for a cup of coffee from a thin barista. while outside it is raining.. outside the clouds float by in gray shades of indifference outside a few pigeons cheat the sidewalks mortared lines. yet inside the lines of my skin is more than water. ...

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I know i'm not a saint but i might be your martyr even if just for a moment. stranger my eyes to you. the ambience of two hollow tabernacles passing in silence under heavy raindrops. our reflections caught in the window of a coffee shop next to the old church on 11th and clay. ...

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they are green anarchist who listen to national public radio along with pseudo punk rock chick bands. they are angry and i am pretty sure they killed jesus. they have names like ryan and ashley and in the fourth grade they kicked me in the nuts and left me on the ground at recess. these...

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Columbia, Willamette stream Forth their gentle run, As salmon glint beneath each beam Of a Northwest sun. The rain-swelled rivers rise and roll Back where they began, Like ups and downs of someone’s soul: Seasons of a man,...

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Thrice a coin did flip in the air methodology affixing this state located Latitude: 45° 31', North Longitude: 122° 39', West heads and tails two early settles did blare Asa Lovejoy and Francis W. Pettygrove respectively knew after two tosses of copper or silver piece name of newfound Pacific...

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