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Power Station Poems - Poems about Power Station

Premium MemberPower Station

...To all of my loves, 
I'm nothing but a greying power station.
They're not interested in me
or my well being
I'm not sure if they ever were.
They come at me with endless barbed babble
have littl...
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Categories: power station, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChain Wire Fence

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A tall, chain wire fence
surrounds the perimeter 
of the power station, casting
its evening shadow over a wide
bank of grass leading down
to the river. Sometimes I sit there
just to listen to...
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Categories: power station, art, love, river, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberBottlebrush and Greyhound

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There are times
when I long to move
beyond the edges of myself
as when, this morning, alongside 
the power station fence,
I passed under a red cloud 
of bottlebrush flowers
dripping nectar i...
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Categories: power station, bird, dog, joy, self,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUkraines Defiance

...Ukraine is putting up a brave fight and is not giving in
A two finger salute to that murderer, Vladimar Putin
For eight months now they've held out in their cities 
Dispite missiles, murder, r...
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Categories: power station, death, evil, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnsustainable V Sustainable

...Moulded electric plugs, go to landfill the earlier ones were sectional and re-useable,
 Copper tanks kept water
Hot all day; maybe two days, if they were bigger.' They were removed in the interests...
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Categories: power station, assonance, conflict, confusion, wisdom,
Form: Verse



Terra

...1.Pockets of air.
2.Roaring gusts in critique.
3.Swirling leaves.
I'll build a concession stand here immediately.
I knew one day you'd get proactive.
I just thought it'd be, you know- maybe liqu...
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Categories: power station, blessing, nature,
Form: Free verse

Sorry But You Have Killed Your Own

...The way you decode your words MR professor to those ambitious students in your class
And with that so called lecturing you drop a big mass on their path
and by keep reminding them their stupidity, ...
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Categories: power station, feelings, political, sorrow, sorry,
Form: Blank verse

Wistful View Unseen

...A blanket of warmth cossets us with calm.                                                                                                      The grey of sky & sea melts & meets,                    ...
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Categories: power station, autumn, blessing, inspiration, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse

Four Love Affairs

...FOUR   LOVE AFFAIRS

The French health food shop
Near Vasilyastrovskaya metro,
With a tiny patio garden bench   -
Fell in love there with the language of the French.
Closed now for property dev...
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Categories: power station, urban, , literature,
Form: Free verse

Escape

...Tuesday 17th 1998.

Escape…
I felt an atomic bomb erupt from within me, as I the being I am raged an unending battle against the person that is I.  My internal thoughts betraying my external actio...
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Categories: power station, abuse, anger, depression, desire,
Form: Concrete

A Climate of Change

...We didn't go abroad this year, we had our summer holiday
Here in the UK where it had rained all summer long.
We scuba dived in the sea but it was dead, devoid of all
Life; we walked the coastal pa...
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Categories: power station, change, corruption, environment, farm,
Form: Free verse

Out My Window

...Graffiti on an old rusty train 
I see this through my kitchen window 
And globs of dripping dropping rain  
A field house light shines at night like a little flame 
There is a golf course beyond ...
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Categories: power station, home,
Form: I do not know?

We Break the Past To Build the Future

...the chimney stacks
of the old power station
claws at the belly of the clouds
and with its sulfurous billowing
it bellows its stench
tinting the clouds, yellowing nicotine stains
as its cadavero...
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Categories: power station, nature, technology,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Postcript From Palestine

...Dust descending
fills my ears and nose:
small stones loosened from the soft rock
bleed our faces and our arms......

the smell of this cellar
the drought of this cellar
the echoing sound of th...
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Categories: power station, political,
Form: Free verse

The Demise of Didcot A

...Throughout the Oxford countryside,
Ubiquitous.  You cannot miss
That chimney or those cooling towers,
Dubbed “cloud machines” by local kids.

Fuelled by coal, this power station,
Condemned to d...
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Categories: power station, power,
Form: Verse

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