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Stanchion Poems - Poems about Stanchion

Tyke Voices
...She grabbed at the quarter full pop bottle neck, cream soda from Marsh’s, and held like a truncheon, in the harshest of voices produced an otherworldly sound, GETOUT!! “Give me a chance” and h......

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Categories: stanchion, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tales From the Hollow
...In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds One in particular had hollowed inside this stanchion Braced against pervading skies and......

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Categories: stanchion, destiny, earth, fate, home,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of Wine
...A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog. The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman Strains to see beyond the wheel. The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan. It’s his ......

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Categories: stanchion, adventure, sea,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Antebellum Elegy
...Prologue Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion. An unwitting monument to a way of life, Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife. Antebellu......

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Categories: stanchion, history, native american,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unyielding Spirit
...Summer storm’s rampage Disfigured the brilliant foliage Making the green lush disruptive, That was once attractive. The most pleasant and serene site, Mutated in to poor and ugly sight Despi......

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Categories: stanchion, confidence, faith, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hot Summer Day
...Who knew that we would find a way To cool ourselves, that summer day Bored with creating ways for fun All simmering in the August sun (Oh, but for a man-made stream!) Gas lines prepped for i......

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Categories: stanchion, childhood, fun, summer, water,
Form: Rhyme
The Brown Recluse
...The Brown Recluse, its pathway goes Past radiator’s stanchion rows On to the corner, up the wall Across the ceiling then to fall Upon my bed. But no one knows. This silent killer never slows ......

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Categories: stanchion, sick,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Death Watches
...A vision through the haze of time and rhyme a mirrored beauty, Helen sits and waits. I see her through the window for it's late, at dawn, I'll bring her death, for she's not mine. As yet, the key......

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Categories: stanchion, fear,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Pain of Love
...Do you know where my heart goes? It moves in and out of me. I don't have the strength to put it aside, work on the other things in life I value and let it find its natural place. It longs to be......

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Categories: stanchion, love, passion, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amorous Obstacles
...Z apping a Beautiful Countess Doesn’t Ever Get Her I n Juicy Kiss Lip Mode, No, Or Picking Que’s Roses. She Takes Useless Vows With X,Y,Z. G ee, He In Jest Kids Lady May! Not Owning Prince Q’s ......

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Categories: stanchion, adventure, funny, imagination,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rainy Days
...The revelations of winter pass now, the captured moments of vertical strife, the stanchion of paper white birch forests rigid on the black scratch board of rocky hillock soon, these markers of wi......

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Categories: stanchion, allegory, hope, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Railroad Boy
...Where have all the cabooses gone, Red slab sided, cupola, curved roof, Friendly stove pipe hat, every kids wish, Moveable tree house clickety-clacking Cozily rolling across America Snappy visor......

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Categories: stanchion, childhood, children, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Life To Live
...Where have all the cabooses gone, Red slab sided, cupola, curved roof, Friendly stove pipe hat, every kids wish, Moveable tree house clickety-clacking Cozily rolling across America Snappy visor......

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Categories: stanchion, allegory, childhood, children, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Peacock's Pall /Avebury Churhyard, Enland Uk
...Round goes the spiral looping the path. Straight stand the stones high in green grass. Round goes the moat circling the tor; solitary stanchion saracens high altars they bore. Round goes ......

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Categories: stanchion, devotion
Form: Quatrain
The Fourth of July
...Unfurled and draped Clasped to rugged stanchion holds Fiery colors so recently encased Now blazon; presentation bold Flap and flourish; draw attention… Iconic salve for fickle folk Most every......

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Categories: stanchion, history, loss,
Form: Rhyme

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