Posts Tagged ‘star’
February 26, 2015
The stars/
showing Sherman’s scars/
before this/
meant nothing to me./
Long live the Republic!/
Long live the Confederacy!/
(But now it does/
because/
I’ve touched history.*)
*[added later]
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The back story behind this poem:
Toward the end of the Civil War, General William T. Sherman and his Union army captured the South Carolina State Capital in Columbia, SC on February 17, 1865, leaving city-wide destruction. Shells from Sherman’s cannons, which were of light caliber, damaged the building only slightly, and brass markers were subsequently placed on the west and southwest walls of the building to show where the shots had landed. Ten were fired in all. Six “struck the western front,” with little damage. This photo is of the lowest (and most accessible) brass star marker (and the damage), near the western door.
In late February, 2015, I turned the star and ran my fingers along the damaged wall.
Tags:cannonball, Columbia, Confederacy, CSA, CyranoWriter, GAR, history, Kuhns, long live the Confederacy, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, Republic, revolutionary poetry, scar, scars, Sherman's March, South Carolina Capitol Building, star, touched history, www.cyranowriter.com
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December 18, 2014
Late night
starry lights
shine at Christmas.
Neighbors trees
illuminate me
as I pass.
My friends I’ve left.
I feel bereft
and moan “Alas!”
To whom shall I turn?
They won’t return
who I’ve sassed.
I shouldn’t turn away.
I should let my heart stay
open at Christmas.
Tags:alas, alone, at Christmas, CyranoWriter, Emotional poetry, heart, hurting, iambic poem, Kuhns, lights, lonely, night, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, revolutionary poetry, rhyme, rhyme scheme, sass, star, Suffering, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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April 6, 2013
She claimed she was a/
star gazer, but she forgot /
what clear blue skies meant.
Tags:clear blue skies, cloudy, CyranoWriter, forgot, haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, meaning, night sky, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, romance poetry, romantic, romantic poetry, star, star gazing, www.cyranowriter.com
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July 10, 2012
Freeway accident./
Stopped traffic at night. Ragtop/
lets me gaze at stars.
Tags:ConTEXTing Haiku, ConTEXTing Poem, ConTEXTing Poetry, convertible, CyranoWriter, Freeway accident, gaze, haiku, Kuhns, night, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, ragtop, revolutionary poetry, star, www.cyranowriter.com
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April 23, 2011
I thought I heard rain./
It was wind through cottonwoods./
I gazed up at stars.
Tags:ConTEXTing Haiku, ConTEXTing Poem, cottonwood, CyranoWriter, gaze, haiku, Kuhns, Moon, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, rain, revolutionary contexting Haiku, Revolutionary ConTEXTing Poetry, revolutionary poetry, star, text message poetry, wind, www.cyranowriter.com
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April 13, 2011
Even blonde stars hurt,/
sometimes. Oh, wait. REM/
already said that.
Tags:blonde, ConTEXTing Haiku, ConTEXTing Poetry, CyranoWriter, Emotional poetry, Everybody hurts, haiku, hurting, Kuhns, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetic Lament, Poetry, REM, revolutionary contexting Haiku, revolutionary poetry, sometimes, star, Suffering, text message poetry, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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February 13, 2009
I went to Never-Never Land
but didnt find you there!
I knew that, if I had,
I’d simply stand, stare,
and think how lovely you are!
But, alas!
I must have turned too far
wrong;
gone past
the star
that is home.
Tags:home, IMprov Poetry, Kuhns, never-never land, poems, rhythmn, Romantic IMbic poem, romantic poetry, star
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