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Winslow Poems - Poems about Winslow


Premium Member Sunset Fires, Winslow Homer
details are missing except shadows & flames drawings with colour still skip several frames I can't gaze upon faces or touch work worn hands I am not really there so I don't understand my heart sinks in reflection as remaining light lost darkness cloaks land they must row to at cost stark is the contrast of all that I feel oblivion is no answer though...

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Categories: winslow, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Moonlight, Wood Island Light by Winslow Homer
light and dark are swallowed up I watch it play out total and utter control how can something so monstrous be so beautiful? absence of malice or kindness ...

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Categories: winslow, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winslow
Two men walk down a dusty street in Winslow, Arizona. One places small white crosses at the curb and recites names while the other bears witness: "Juan Fernando Lopez”  “Presente!” “Maria Anna Ramos”  “Presente!” “Jose Angel Fernandez”  “Presente!” “Restos mortales” (Mortal remains) “Presente!” This continues until that day’s accounting of bodies found in the desert is complete....

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Categories: winslow, america, death, immigration,
Form: Free verse
The Witch of Winslow Street
The Witch of Winslow Street In West Saint John, no fortune sprang. But greatness graced the Blue Rock Gang. As Carleton rascals, David Goss And Bobby Alexander launched A secret goal that made them itch, To see which woman was a witch. So, mischief was their middle name, And witches were their call to fame. There was a place they used to play, An old...

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Categories: winslow, betrayal, fantasy, friendship, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Line - Winslow Homer
Oh hearken the struggle, life's gossamer threads, The delicate sway of hope ... Framed by churning white of Lord Neptune's might, Faith dangles a slender rope. Wan maiden, her savior, and a scarlet shawl, Battered by surf and gale ... Yet our faceless hero and his capable arms, As sure as the damsel, frail. Mostly monochromatic, all its tones of gray, Save for the...

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Categories: winslow, adventure, art, life, storm,
Form: Rhyme



John Winslow Homer
John Winslow Homer Was known to be a roamer After painting The Fox Hunt He put down his brush And moved to Oklahoma...

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Categories: winslow, funny,
Form: Clerihew
The Wind Blows Outside of Winslow
3-10-2012 Wind blows outside of Winslow I was gone alright ,The sun was down,the moon was full, I was kinda blue just walking down the...

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Categories: winslow, adventure,
Form: I do not know?

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