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Short Cupola Poems

Short Cupola Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cupola by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cupola by length and keyword.


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raging sea consumes whalers, cupola soon to be a widow's walk...

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Categories: cupola, loss, sea,
Form: Monoku



Emblem
A great snowy owl
Sat on a cupola
Looking wise
But undoubtedly thinking of mice
Who might be down under the barn
To come out to be devoured

He had flown in from the far north
So large and commanding a bird
Hundreds came daily to gape
His head swiveled
His eyes were astonishing
His silence complete...

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Categories: cupola, autumn, strength,
Form: I do not know?
Soul Roots
Some old wooden houses are deep,
they have columns and porticos,
piazza, loggia, gables, and cupola.
There rooms are arboreal
they knot. curl and jut outward
as the limbs of a still treeing houses.

Once in a house like this,
I recalled the broadleaf woods of my childhood,
a memory that rocked me gently
in its timbered embrace.
I came to know that depth of my life,
its internal architecture
one room grown from another -
the many mansions....

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Categories: cupola, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Searching Begins
The house is now quiet,
the children have gone

My beard they’ve left ruffled,
as memories grow long

With trains and dolls scattered,
where last they played

Their love remains buried,
inside of the maze

The cupola harkens,
a last candle there burns

As the attic sits waiting
for the toys to return

The old house is silent,
but deep from within

Their laughter still hides
—and my searching begins

(Thanksgiving: November, 2016)...

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Categories: cupola, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Mop Woman
Mop Woman


Near dwarf this woman. 
Foreign born. Minsk,
perhaps. Nose 

a fist. Hair
a whisk broom
only black. Her back

an Orthodox cupola, 
her arms braids of gym rope
lowered to the floor.

Orangutans could climb 
those ropes, hand
over hand, no rose

no purple 
doughnuts 
on their hinds.

Near dwarf this woman.
Foreign born. Minsk,
perhaps.

Her hands, all gristle, 
hang an inch, no more,
above her shining floor.


Donal Mahoney...

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Categories: cupola, on work and working
Form: Free verse



My Searching Begins
The house is now quiet,
  the children have gone

My beard they’ve left ruffled,
  as memories grow long

With trains and dolls scattered
  where last they played

Their love remains buried
  inside of the maze

The cupola harkens
  a last candle there burns

As the attic sits waiting
  for the toys to return

The old house is silent
  but deep from within

Their laughter still hides
  —and my searching begins

(Thanksgiving: November, 2016)...

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Categories: cupola, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme

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