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Steinbeck Poems - Poems about Steinbeck

Premium Member She is a River
...“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.” “Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a fa......

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Categories: steinbeck, allegory, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Verse
Premium Member You Would Say Softly
...I wish I could hear your voice one last time “Hey” you would say softly “I love you” you would quote literature by heart Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Vonnegut and then you would quote ......

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Categories: steinbeck, bereavement, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Songs of Soul COS No 12: ABBA
...Caused Steinbeck reword "Mirth" known printed write, harmony pulse conducts the marooned cell, though breaks, wisely kept in tune with itself. The gauge's clicks sway one to soothe its height. "E......

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Categories: steinbeck, allusion, analogy, change, character,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Songs of Soul COS No 11: AABB
...Bold victor of few words, save salvation. Death crawls like love save a heart's pulsation spark pure flight, yon depths freed throbs soar by far, pique stress's share, naught idle, claimant voiced......

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Categories: steinbeck, allusion, analogy, change, character,
Form: Sonnet
The End of Chumley's Tavern
...I’ve strolled down Bedford from Barrow, maybe a couple times or more. When I would get to 86, I headed through the garden door. I felt inspiration flowing, from the rafters down to the floor. ......

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Categories: steinbeck, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Of Mice and Men
...and hopeless in between ~ who died like rats chasing american dreams Book by John Steinbeck Too late for Kim’s contest......

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Categories: steinbeck, america, books, depression,
Form: Monoku
Craftspeople, Creativity, Family - Happy Bday Mom
...I You have a vivid mind, heart, vocabulary A lover of God, I make excuses (true, right) Yes, South Africa fails us in electricity Still, Shakespeare worked by candlelight II I admire my siste......

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Categories: steinbeck, absence, america, art, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
...Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM Despite what outside temperature registers (even absolute zero), the official arrival of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic of coe phish hun......

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Categories: steinbeck, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Dust Bowl Ballads
...Listening to the Boss Singing The Ghost of Tom Joad, Imagining the Okies as they Travelled their Desolation Road. Word Pictures by Steinbeck, Dust Bowl Ballads by Guthrie, Green Pastures Of P......

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Categories: steinbeck, change, environment, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Star Spangled Banner
...Since I was a small child and would try to sing, when we rise and sing the praises of "Old Glory," it brings tears to my eyes. Maybe it's because we have endured much to keep our flag flying--too ......

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Categories: steinbeck, appreciation, emotions, freedom, winter,
Form: Haibun
Influences 2 American Dreams
...It was old Woody that lured me with Dust Bowl Ballads and so much more Telling stories of a West That I'd never heard before. I was with the Okies as They travelled down the road Got a new he......

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Categories: steinbeck, america, dream, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Grapes of Wrath Revisited
...John Steinbeck wrote the story Of the Okie family Joad as they Travelled down their bleak Hard California bound road. Tractored out by the Cats After the bank had foreclosed, No feelings of we......

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Categories: steinbeck, class, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
...I have known: of wise detectives catching crooks of "Thought Police" revising books a shipwrecked family named Robinson of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic Heathcliff's heartbreak,......

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Categories: steinbeck, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Mice and Mills
...Of Mice and Men-Mills David J Walker And Speaking of Steinbeck The Jobe family could have Lived here or there Pointing to the bones of Clapboard farmhouses on Their last legs In some......

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Categories: steinbeck, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Grapes of Mirth
...As death mimics love itself and clutch a throbbing heart, kindling consolation to savor flight, farther and farther beyond the inner yelps released as vibrating soar easi......

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Categories: steinbeck, death, destiny, happiness, imagery,
Form: Free verse

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