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At the Rendezvous In Soup Creek

...One day in Soup Creek City, 
There was a duel 'tween Cunningham and Watt 
Tom said to John "I hear you're good, 
Let me see, son- what you've got" 

John said to Tom "You're not the only one 
W...

Categories: townsmen, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

De Valued To Create Oppurtunity

...Twenty secretaries found his
Notes interesting. These were
the official words to the
Beginning of a music partnership
that was done for the purpose of
creation and profit. Twenty music
Companie...

Categories: townsmen, art, business, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Bio

The Legend of Backwater

...Way down south at the edge of the swamp,
Was a little town known as Backwater.
A peaceful town that most folks found,
Was a good place to raise sons and daughters.

A plague hit the town and peo...

Categories: townsmen, halloween,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Lion Roars

...The lioness hums... 

The wafting inside my head, 
Whirling afloat, like a hurricane. 
I tell myself, The worst she can say, is no
 
Perchance the lioness winks... 
I will offer my lonely hear...

Categories: townsmen, love,
Form: Free verse

Small Feet, Big Shoes

...He dashed into shoe-shop;
“I have searched for shoes
All shops have big shoes
But when I eat more food
I will fill in space that is
Comfortably and steadily
I shall move all the way
My head ha...

Categories: townsmen, power, satire,
Form: Free verse

The Sheep and the Shepherds

...Was there something of an issue there,
With a wondering sheep being lost, 
Just at that time when the shepherds, 
Were on the way to rejoice and toast? 

I rather think that, most definitely, 
...

Categories: townsmen, angel, animal, birth, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

The Preparation of the Wise Men - the Camels

...They always made me happy, 
The camels of the wise men, 
The slowness of their footsteps, 
Their self-sufficient ben. 

Camels meant there was time, 
For the three wise men to think, 
To ponde...

Categories: townsmen, animal, christian, christmas, december,
Form: Rhyme

Promises He Wore On His Grin

...there were lights blazing to the east
but her eyes were fixed to the west
someplace out in that darkness he rode into the night
with his gun in hand to regulate the doubters
she lay in the afterm...

Categories: townsmen, beautiful, beauty, emotions, hope,
Form: Free verse

Compassion - the Cat Man of Aleppo

...(September 2014)

While rage of war surrounds this special man
   he, driver of an ambulance, remains
      to help his wounded townsmen heal, survive-
men downed by civil war in Syria.

The s...

Categories: townsmen, cat, devotion, international,
Form: Blank verse

Love Is On the Edge

...I live in a town bursting with all kinds of people;
humans who break shops and groceries in broad daylight;
attempt to put explosives inside a school bus;
hate Zionism to the deepest Swastika core...

Categories: townsmen, art, imagery, life, racism,
Form: Free verse

My Dear Lovely Girl

...Oh hold my hand my dear, lovely girl,
hold me tight and never let go,
I shall tell you what you want to hear,
destroy all the demons from your sight,
hold you tight in the midst of the night,
as...

Categories: townsmen, beautiful, for her, love,
Form: Romanticism

Latenight No3

...Finally,
I can fill a page or two
with professions of how beautiful
the snow is,
how it's what we prayed for
and what we were promised
from inside the walls of our detention cells.
It's so bea...

Categories: townsmen, nature, on writing and
Form: Free verse

English Heritage 1

...Twelve
townsmen,
just and true-
common law on
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The Jury by John Morgan 
Perhaps Aylesbury's most famous painting

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Categories: townsmen, art, people, places
Form: Ekphrasis