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Tamp Down Poems - Poems about Tamp Down


Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
...Habit is Heaven's tame redress: it tugs down the skirts of Happiness. —Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch Till, conquered by gusts of cold air, as Winter approaches, I find, on......

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Categories: tamp down, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Pity the Shovel that Buries the Earth
...Beneath a callused skin of light the hunched and mustered clap a prayer between a leaking sight. It is the earth that mourns itself, whether baldly thrown or loamy laid the silent soil repaint......

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Categories: tamp down, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ah To Reminisce
...Ah, to reminisce, to peer through rose colored glasses smooth the edges of pointed encounters tamp down the burning embers of memory smoldering in silent seclusion. To change the tone texture......

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Categories: tamp down, life, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
My Certain Courage
...The day of courage has come, I'll tamp down our rage, Take studies in strides as I re-new Truth's defense, Steady the chapters, the verses of pen and page, Embrace the tabled periods, make joyful ......

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Categories: tamp down, confidence, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked Up
...Our unhinged president, (a veritable loathsome miscreant) cannot get away with murder, nor will mine paltry poetic (side winding) gambit help clinch deserved punishment for leader of free world......

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Categories: tamp down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
... A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! ! Once a beacon of democracy A shining light on the hill The ‘American Dream’ Anyone can ‘make it’ Never more than aspirational Structu......

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Categories: tamp down, conflict, corruption, leadership, power,
Form: Free verse
Rebounding With Energy After Midnight
...Methinks resurgence of wakefulness after bewitching hour i.e. midnight quickly dissipating before dawn quasi baptism regarding preternatural soulful immersion amidst spiritus mundi foretaste ......

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Categories: tamp down, allusion, atheist, baptism, crazy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Forsaken the Lark
...Flight songs have forsaken the lark, where flood and fire forage the dark. From coast to coast our prayer on wings. O Lord have mercy the choir sings. Firefighters on lawn, brave and tired. Nu......

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Categories: tamp down, christian, fire, hero,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Fire Inside
...THE FIRE INSIDE I have to tamp down the fire inside for not all are stoked with flaming eyes my cheeriness might be their demise the fire inside explosive it drives the quiet......

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Categories: tamp down, happiness,
Form: Free verse
My Planters
...Each year when the summer is nigh I drag out my planters and buy Some flowers to plant But somehow I can't Make them grow, though I really do try. I gently tamp down all the soil. W......

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Categories: tamp down, me, nature,
Form: Limerick
The Raving
...From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary. Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men Who persist to query me on matters they know I mu......

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Categories: tamp down, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form: Narrative
Counter Culture
...Today's closing hangs lower than it did yesterday, trying to mess with tomorrow's dreams. Sitting here, dressed in a wry smile, my heart whispers to a sky, tie-dyed with the jewel of Navaho......

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Categories: tamp down, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse

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