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Skinners Poems - Poems about Skinners


Premium Member A Dark Curse She Still Comes To Torture Me
...(1.) A Dark Curse She Still Comes To Torture Me O' my darling, why do you look like so ghostlike Your creamy skin looks like burnt-over ash Hole in chest, were you stabbed with a spike But a......

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Categories: skinners, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mule Skinners Prayer
... A Mule Skinner’s Prayer By: Tom Wright 1/15/99 Lord, May you bless both me and my string this day. May our trails be wide, our oat bin full, and grass along the way. May there be......

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Categories: skinners, friend, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Land Is a Loom
...Land Is A Loom I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet. The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet From bird song and bear splashing fishers From rutting mo......

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Categories: skinners, adventure, environment, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Infected Leg
...work the genes are stitching it is the gravity of the past the weight of planets descending invisible uncarpeted stairs it is the man on land in asking why the drowning man grasps at ......

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Categories: skinners, appreciation, baby, beauty, black
Form: Free verse
Carnival
...Its carnival season again in Trinidad The whole country in a party mood With steel pan, soca and calypso Beautiful women and all kind of food It has a big show in Skinners Park Tonight in san ......

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Categories: skinners, celebration, culture, history,
Form: Light Verse



An Animals Prayer
...dear Lord save me from evil men the bullet bait and snare, save me from being caged or confined for men to stare. save me from the abattoir or from the skinners knife, and the plunging dagger......

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Categories: skinners, animalsme, me,
Form: Rhyme

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