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Houghton Poems - Poems about Houghton


Premium Member Mexican severe repeat violent offender stabbing five persons with a butcher knife
...News release woman gets only four years for stabbing five people with a large butcher knife saying I’m going to Mort you why would Wisconsin concealed a butcher knife dangerous weapon out t......

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Categories: houghton, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member All things that scrub the ground
...All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you were as red......

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Categories: houghton, allah,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member Arson murder of 9
...It began as quickly as the first arson murder of 8 only this time Ciro Gargano a wannabe crime boss used car salesman video game dealing running the entire city with weapons and drugs intimid......

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Categories: houghton, allah,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member The Breakfast Program and Me Targeted by Donald Trump face
...It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold civil rights riots plagued my little brown mind sir......

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Categories: houghton, allah,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member Strands
...Inspired by: The Eye of the Lord (1870) painting by Georgiana Houghton. The painting should accompany the words My eyes are heavy As if covered by a film Layer upon layer ......

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Categories: houghton, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Beloved Physician
...The majority of the following poem was lost forever, except for a portion recalled by the author's lady friend, many years after his untimely death. I will post the recollections of Mrs. Shew-H......

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Categories: houghton, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things