Dark Eclipse Takes the Kitty Fall
...It was strange
the cars,
like stand alones, all unoccupied,
dotting the dark wet stained streets,
the moon licking puddles
like a stray dog thirsty
checking its reflection
for a friend, ye...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, dark, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
Iowa City
...(A bit of fun for Thomas W. Case - I think he lives in Iowa)
Hawkeye pride burns bright in Iowa City,
the place where Tennessee Williams learned to curse.
Iowa City hosts the 4th of J...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, community, food, identity, paris,
Form: Free verse
The Psychopomp's Embrace
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"The Psychopomp’s Embrace"
No judgement
from the fallen
unseen angels
credited
with scores to
safely harbour
lost passing ships
that crush souls
in dark ni...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
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"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"
Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips
on lines of sticky Asphalt
The father w...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Fraudulent
...
"Fraudulent"
A writer writes of people
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all
like he’s been there
tr...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, depression, family, friendship, home,
Form: Free verse
Brief: Blue Roses
...A girl returned to school--still not quite well.
A classmate queried, "What's been wrong with you?"
She was so timid but at last could tell
the boy "Pleurosis." He exclaimed, "That's new.
I've ne...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, color, rose, symbolism,
Form: Quintain (English)
Not Enough Gags
...(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist
Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite.
He had choked on the plastic cap of his eyedrops bottle, which
he habituall...
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Categories:
tennessee williams,
Form: Blank verse
Three Poems Rejected This Morning
...1. Find My Way
I'm going to find
my jagged shard way
back to you,
cut through the muck
of television life,
burn through
all the weeds,
just to see you again,
cross an ocean
in an old Rab...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, art,
Form: Free verse
Eulogy For Frank
...My father died prematurely while away on
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me,
(not the same thing), adult to adult, provided I
w...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dixieland Wordpad
...Way down here
In the swamps of Dixie,
Where I learned to dance
With gators grinning,
There’s music like none
You’ve ever heard.
It laces the bayous
In passionate tones,
Enough to make you
Wa...
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Categories:
tennessee williams, natural disasters, music,
Form: Free verse