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Tamp Down
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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Michael Burch
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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Eric Ashford
Categories:
tamp down,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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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John Lawless
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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Ryan J. Mccabe
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
tamp down,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
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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Mel Gill
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
tamp down,
allusion, atheist, baptism, crazy,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
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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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
tamp down,
christian, fire, hero,
Form:
Kyrielle
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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Kim Rodrigues
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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Ilene Bauer
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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Steve Grammatico
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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Maggie Flanaganwilkie
Categories:
tamp down,
native american, nature,
Form:
Free verse