Tintypes Poems - Poems about Tintypes

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...