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Wilmington Poems - Poems about Wilmington


Premium Member SUNSET ON A MOUNTAIN TOP
... We think we have the best of both worlds… we get to watch the sun set over the ocean… watch as into the water it slowly drops… And we also get to watch it set…into the horizon from on a mountai......

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Categories: wilmington, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Disney To Rolling Wheels
...Peter Pan The Magic, Adventure, Entertainment and numerous surprises A character of pure fun Peter Pan is never out done Disney made it all possible in create Perhaps it was simply fate Childre......

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Categories: wilmington, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member While I Strived At Wilmington Treatment Center
...I strolled with God, and God with me, as I shrank from booze to clarity, through Narrow doors, and sculpted lawn, that Buffered me with accountability - The hands of God my confidence No one ca......

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Categories: wilmington, addiction, adventure, appreciation, freedom,
Form: Free verse
To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part Ii
......Through the woodlands the riflemen did steam, reinforcing General Greene’s second line, the British pressed on, still on the attack, but they had quite the devil of a time. Marching through ......

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Categories: wilmington, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Doshier Memorial In Wilmington North Carolina
...Jill has been in the hospital for seven days and I have not been writing any poems on Poetry Soup. Here is one I wrote while there with my wife. We would have started out to seek, Things exp......

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Categories: wilmington, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?



Always Would Knew It Was Apparent
...Always Would Knew It Was Apparent We always knew it was quite apparent, What we determined to be a deterrent, Were involved, And resolved, Made mistake when they were errant. Jim Horn St......

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Categories: wilmington, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The 1940's and 50's Movie, Radio and More
...Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC, From just before my first grade in school to the end of my t......

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Categories: wilmington, truth, world war ii,
Form: Prose
Plantation Visit
...I did not have much of a thing with mosquitoes. That is until we visited a famous plantation home on the Cape Fear river near Wilmington, North Carolina one summer. We were especially excited to v......

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Categories: wilmington, insect, summer,
Form: Haibun
Oh Boucher Can You See
...Oh Boucher Can you See (Pronounced Booshay.) I was just having my breakfast for the first time at the local junior college. As usual, I was lambasted with another great Horn subject, thought an......

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Categories: wilmington, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse
Tears Were Shed
...Tears Were Shed We did decide to take a tour And ere to go were not sure; Maybe to Baltimore and then back Or Phillie and see Freedom Bell crack. Arrived at Norfolk and saw naval base; Then off to ......

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Categories: wilmington, travel,
Form: Couplet
The Last of the Funerals
...“the last of the funerals” today “the last of the funerals” takes place & the killings in CT get placed on the shelf, alongside the deaths at Columbine, Virginia Tech... those were the “big ones” r......

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Categories: wilmington, life, high school,
Form: Free verse
Chemo Session 2
...No trouble with my blood this time so I am now in chemo # 2. My baby white blood cells were a bit below what they wanted to see but my platelets were back to normal so they said I was good to go......

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Categories: wilmington, healthsleep, time, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strip Mall Surprise
...We began to see the first sign of Strip Malls toward the end of World War Two. In fact I remember something of a barbed wire fence I used to peer through. Wilmington, North Carolina 1945......

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Categories: wilmington, adventure, childhood
Form: Narrative

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