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Woodruff Poems - Poems about Woodruff

Premium MemberDrumrolls

...Samuel Woodruff was a very old man, who once drummed for the army;
That marched to his rhythmic music, along with all fifers, playing hearty.

That was a lifetime ago, in dawn days so pink...
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Categories: woodruff, fantasy, march, memory, music,
Form: Couplet

William Herebert translations

...“What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight?”
by William Herebert, 14th century
translation by Michael R. Burch

Who is he, this lordling, who staggers from the fight,
with blood-red ...
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Categories: woodruff, bird, joy, love, song,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberBLOSSOM in ABSTRACT

...blossom of baby's breath
soft white
gorse crusted yellow

weeping willow
rush patterned lace
 pasture in pastel green

buttercup daisy
comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship

swaying pe...
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Categories: woodruff, nature, word play,
Form: Tristich

Poolside Vision

...I was walking through Woodruff Park
again today, although it felt a little
bit more like swimming; I had to backstroke
my way through viscous Summer air. 
As I stopped to catch my breath
and tow...
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Categories: woodruff, environment, life,
Form: Free verse

Ars Poetica

...Poetry is a busy crosswalk downtown,
when everyone moves together with elbows 
held a little wider than normal.
Poetry is a middle-aged man, creased 
and folded, sprawled out on the neglected 
w...
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Categories: woodruff, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse



Pieces of Me

...Sliding another coffin nail out of sky-blue cardboard,
lending yet another piece of myself to a stranger.
If giving a gift is giving part of yourself 
you can find me in the lungs of street
perfo...
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Categories: woodruff, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDr Harold F Shipman Psychopathic Killer

...Psychopath definition: A mentally ill or unstable person. A person who engages in antisocial behavior and exhibits a pervasive disregard for the rights, and feelings, and safety of others.
 Serial k...
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Categories: woodruff, betrayal, death,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPbs News Hours Lisa Desjardins At the Inserrection

...Lisa Desjardins ducked down while "The Jan 6,2021 "Criminal Inserrection" was taking place. Lisa put her life in "Harms way on that terrible day"!Lisa Desjardins said to herself I can! Democracy i...
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Categories: woodruff, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberPastoral Pastiche

...buttercup daisy 
   &
 cowslip

swaying pelts 
   of grasses 
bask in Spring 

purple vetch
      ribwort plaintain
lush clover
       in English rain
scalious burnets 
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Categories: woodruff, nature, places,
Form: Pastoral

Premium MemberProse Poem Naturally

...Blossom of baby's breath,soft white gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of grass w...
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Categories: woodruff, nature, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThorn In the Flesh

...Hawthorn dense and tough
Amidst sweet scented woodruff;
In rambled briar sprawl
Prickly and wandering tall....
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Categories: woodruff, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberFlights of Fancy Phrasis Part 3 Recited

...FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 3
Blossom of baby's breath,soft white
gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow
rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.
Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fel...
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Categories: woodruff, fantasy,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberTribute To Corporal Buckles

...A hundred-ten year old soldier was interred in Arlington Cemetery today.
Corporal Frank Woodruff Buckles now sleeps nigh his comrades in sacred clay,
Awaiting that glorious morn when Gabriel's bugl...
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Categories: woodruff, death, history, sadwar, age,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSequence-Country Walk

...Follow the track with the scenic view,
into the wood with a carpet blue.

Between clumps of gorse in yellow garb,
along a path baked summer hard.

Around shadu ponds that teem with life,
rush ...
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Categories: woodruff, nature, seasons,
Form: Crystalline

Premium MemberHedgerows

...Buttercup,daisy and cowslip
Together mix in fellowship;
Swaying pelts of grasses fine
Bask in Spring sunshine.

Purple vetch,ribwort plaintain
Jostle lush clover in English rain;
Scalious,burn...
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Categories: woodruff, nature, seasons,
Form: Pastoral

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