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Stovepipe Poems - Poems about Stovepipe


Premium MemberMeegees Conversation

...It is the grand pubah, Meebow Durchee herself.
Twenty Meegees of tar got excited and fell off the shelf.
You better button your lip I said to Bolo Scopey that day
The tornado took out Mary Booger’...
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Categories: stovepipe, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWake

...We placed a pine box casket on a sawhorse table.
There weren’t but little notice, did as best we able.
I watched the flowers wilting in the heat of August.
It seemed a shameful squander given what...
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Categories: stovepipe, allegory, irony,
Form: Epitaph



Premium MemberA Miracle

...Where the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where some drops  ping-ponged on the empty soup cans resting on ...
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Categories: stovepipe, childhood, life,
Form: Haibun

The Dictionary Equals Logophile's Paradise

...Nope reforming hardened criminal donning
scarred face, manacles jailhouse stripe, et cetera
nor taming screwish incorrigible guttersnipe
ain't most difficult enterprises
entailing me to wipe
dri...
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Categories: stovepipe, addiction, allegory, drink, education,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForgottens Remembered

...she liltingly spun     smiling and singing
"You are my sunshine"    waving for us
          to join in

the pan dripped dancing tears on
the hot black stove where they sizzled and died

"My on...
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Categories: stovepipe, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSnowball Fight With a Snowman

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           *  *   *   Snowball Fight With a Snowman
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     Pooch looked up at the towering snowman
         dressed in a peppermint scarf and a stovepipe black hat    
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Categories: stovepipe, fun, humor, snow,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClassic Vinyl Love Poem

...The radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the sound where love begins.
If only for the moment,...
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Categories: stovepipe, hope, love, music,
Form: Free verse

Uncle Jim

...1963.
I ran crying to Uncle Jim, standing by the barn door.
We hugged, and I tried to hold the smell of him,
of Vermont -- Old Spice, oatmeal, rotting leaves in crisp October air.
"Oh, kid, you a...
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Categories: stovepipe, lost love, me, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHats

...The world was a cold place
in the time of hats.
The past, and would be present place
a cold place.

Fedoras, Stetsons, and Stovepipe hats
Scottish Tam o’shanters, Raccoon caps
and feathered he...
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Categories: stovepipe, adventure, cowboy-western, education, history,
Form: Free verse

Iam

...I am the beginning, I am the end,
I am the universe and all that is in,
I am visible but cannot be seen,
I am the mountains, I am the sea, 

I am the dust from an ancient land,
IAM The Creator,...
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Categories: stovepipe, father, history, inspirational, mother,
Form: Pastoral

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