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Wainwright Poems - Poems about Wainwright


Premium Member Midweek Memory Cartmel To Keswick
...Buttemere to Ulla pike, our walk more ramble than hike. Up and down,rain or snow, two teenage daughters in tow. Haystacks,Loweswater overlooking the lake, now locked in memory's keepsake. Up Sk......

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Categories: wainwright, family, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Palm History Awash With Drips
...Courtesy handy dandy palmar hyperhidrosis impossible mission to defeat except poe wet tickly even courtesy drysol. (Me slippery fingers slither, slip and slide splashing ala Jackson Pollock)......

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Categories: wainwright, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Lay Down Your Demons
...I plea with my woes to leave my head alone, alas they leave my croaking soul slain. At night I sleep with my tears along the ill-faded pillow, as I try to fight the battle that I ......

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Categories: wainwright, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Palm History Awash With Drips
...(Me slippery fingers slither, slip and slide splashing ala Jackson Pollock), sans slap dash experimental, swiftly tailored and harried writing style, yes on par with purging, spewing, venting......

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Categories: wainwright, analogy, atheist, boat, creation,
Form: Free verse
Wainwright Smith Rides Away, Part Ii
......What he saw there made blood run cold, His sister naked in the light, Chained to a bed, soiled and stained Her stomach swollen and tight. She was covered in refuse and blood, Her eyes saw h......

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Categories: wainwright, adventure, brother, crazy, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Wainwright Smith Rides Away, Part I
...He’d been on the trail many a month, When he reached the town of Gulrith, A mining village high in the peaks, His named was Wainwright Smith. He searched the west, looking for A sister by the ......

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Categories: wainwright, adventure, brother, crazy, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Lawyer Wainwright Harrumphed and Rose To His Feet
...Lawyer Wainwright harrumphed and rose to his feet To defend his client in front of the jury, In what all thought would be an impossible feat, But approached the jury in a manner unhurried. He b......

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Categories: wainwright, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Deeds
...FORGOTTEN DEEDS by JOHN M. ARRIBAS Colin P. Kelly, John Basilone Two Good Men That Should Be Known They’re Now a Part of Our Ancestry Now Fading into the Pages of History Audie L. Mu......

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Categories: wainwright, courage, freedom, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme
All-Star
...Jeter got two hits while in His final All-Star game. He got a huge ovation As the crowd roared out his name. Though afterwards, the pitcher claimed He’d tossed some easy throws, Like Derek wa......

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Categories: wainwright, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Putrid Road Kill
... I now know how Loudon Wainwright III was inspired. What happened to me was what I never desired. I have to consider this one of my darker episodes. Nocturnal creatures called skunks often cr......

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Categories: wainwright, animal, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walking In the Lakes
...Walkers gather throughout the year In Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere They come to walk the fells No matter the weather wet or clear They travel from near and far To follow the maps of Mr Wainwright......

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Categories: wainwright, earth, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Hallelujah Cry
...“It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who's seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.” This is my favorite quote from the song Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright bec......

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Categories: wainwright, death, death, song, day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pocket Masterpieces
...A work of art- in tourist pictorial guides. Tribute to Alfred Wainwright......

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Categories: wainwright, art, on writing and
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Cartmel To Keswick
...Buttemere to Ulla pike,our walk more ramble than hike.Up and down,rain or snow,two teenage daughters in tow.Haystacks,Loweswater overlooking the lake,now locked in memory's keepsake.Up Skiddaw an......

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Categories: wainwright, family, holiday, nature, places,
Form: Prose Poetry

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