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Tintypes Poems - Poems about Tintypes


Small Towns Between
...The town fathers are long neglected by scavenging vultures, locked up as they are, in the wood cabin, we call the town museum. Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia photographs and t......

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Categories: tintypes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE They stare out at us unsmiling from tintypes of the first photographs, from the tea-colored pictures of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled in cold bare rooms in tenements, children cl......

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Categories: tintypes, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tintype-A Human Heart
...The etching point Of emotion- A dark plate For splash of light- Stillness the contrast… Tintype-a human heart… I have an old Tintype, A soldier and his lovely lady; Radiant a pair as one wo......

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Categories: tintypes, allegory, allusion, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse
Writing With Light
...Boxes of photographs in the closet As life goes on, it piles up in our mindset Hoping to catch every bit of the good times You’ve been there, and again you live within its confines Aging as it ......

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Categories: tintypes, image, light, memory, missing,
Form: Rhyme
The Waxed Coat Man
...In crackled tintypes bent with long ago, Amid flaxen sunset and skies of cherry— In worn leather-carved ancient scenario, He dare not lie in milkweed prairie. He rides resolute toward that swea......

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Categories: tintypes, cowboy-western, hope, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



The Baggage of Photographs
...You are the face in a faded photograph from a past that is not your own. You are an image of your mother, her hand at her breast, touching with butterfly fingers the gossamer fold of her gown......

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Categories: tintypes, fantasy
Form: Narrative

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