St Johns Poems

Daffodils At Thriplow

...I saw Thriplow in its merriment
Vintage cars borrowed from Cambridge
and an abundance of folk singers
with strobes of defiant daffodils
food for the feasties
Morris Dancers sermonising past prac...
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Categories: st johns, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

St Johns Newington

...Such a beautiful building
Airy and spacy and light
Just off Hesse Road, a place,
For that occasion, just right.
One of the trawlermens’ churches
A community now scattered and gone
But thanks to...
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Categories: st johns, community, memory, sea,
Form: Rhyme


Mcclendon's Break

...Streaking, dashing, breaking away
Up, up the tempo, the McClendon way

Getting wide and filling the lanes
Assisting the open man with two points to gain

Upbeat, back and forth, fast, and then ...
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Categories: st johns, basketball, beautiful, black love,
Form: Rhyme

Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton

...Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton P...
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Categories: st johns,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Standing Under St John's Bridge

...Standing under St Johns Bridge, 
ships and boats hauling in, 
red and green lead the drive, 
dusk has framed another day. 
Gentle ripples,
hide Willamette's gold.
Pilgrims dreams are seen,
yet...
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Categories: st johns, beautiful, happy, history, places,
Form: I do not know?


St Johns Schools

...Sprouted from the depth and leapt for the height
Tremendous epoch-making in sight

Just like a raw gem that transforms on motion
Our imaginations are like the ocean
Her noble mind in noble thoug...
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Categories: st johns, education, happiness, school, visionary,
Form: Acrostic

The Gardener

...Wet skies
Grey dawn 
Blankets the coast.
Black rocks
Sea foam 
Triggers the most
Atlantic applause,
An encore to those
Just hearty enough
To make a life on The Rock.

And to answer the cal...
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Categories: st johns, death, garden, memorial day,
Form: Free verse

Gator Bait Series 3rd the Dream Scheme

...Just a Thought......20 below can be a temp......20 below can also " tempt"

Sometimes we have a life long dream...

but not sure where to start....

and sometimes we must go to the extreme..

with a ...
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Categories: st johns,
Form: Prose Poetry

In Pleasure

...In Pleasure          
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 in “Death OF A Rose” By Nate Spears


White suit, top hat, pride feeling higher than spectacular 
The ugly duckling has opened a new chapter
Reveal...
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Categories: st johns, journey, life, love, romance,
Form: Narrative

Brick City's Homeless

...I am a high school graduate and a former college student
I have no children
No drug or alcohol addiction
nor do I have a home
I am one of Brick City's homeless
Many of the faces I've seen downtown ar...
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Categories: st johns, introspection, journey, me, me,
Form: Free verse

An Old Building By the Saint Johns

...AN OLD BUILDING BY THE ST. JOHNS

Prose and fingers lingering to the North arise!
On this day 25 degrees North of the Sun
Venus and the moon shall collide and dance
Chance!

The St. Johns and a rippl...
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Categories: st johns, nature, passion, giggle,
Form: Verse

Jacksonville

...Jacksonville, at this hour, tell me
Do you miss me where the river flows
Through Florida's tangled history
Where the Mocama cotton grows

Do you see me driving early
To teach where the clansman name ...
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Categories: st johns, history, places, me, heart,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberHollywood Beach Gulls

...HOLLYWOOD BEACH GULLS
Regrettably the sun was setting low
on wings of gulls all red and fiery eyed
they plucked the popcorn from our waiting hand
as if we  had a dream to give to them
or sang a song ...
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Categories: st johns, angst, confusion, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse

The St.Johns River Rafter

...love,a slipper,a glove.the tea is sweet,little bo peep,keep your endeavors,i here,forever.to 
sheer a sheep,little bo peep.indeed keep your false friend until the end.the mend is soft and 
complete...
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Categories: st johns, love
Form: Prose Poetry

Holy Relic

...when once my clay hands began to harden
 under the potters wheeled sun 
 i turned to reach for my shadow 
 but found only a basket of dried
 yesterdays and tomorrows.

 when once my clay feet b...
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Categories: st johns,
Form: I do not know?

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