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Tennessee Williams Poems - Poems about Tennessee Williams


Premium Member Dark Eclipse Takes the Kitty Fall
...It was strange the cars, like stand alones, all unoccupied, dotting the dark wet stained streets, the moon licking puddles like a stray dog thirsty checking its reflection for a friend, ye......

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Categories: tennessee williams, dark, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Iowa City
...(A bit of fun for Thomas W. Case - I think he lives in Iowa) Hawkeye pride burns bright in Iowa City, the place where Tennessee Williams learned to curse. Iowa City hosts the 4th of J......

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Categories: tennessee williams, community, food, identity, paris,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Psychopomp's Embrace
... "The Psychopomp’s Embrace" No judgement from the fallen unseen angels credited with scores to safely harbour lost passing ships that crush souls in dark ni......

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Categories: tennessee williams, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
... "The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle" Bedtime stories now walk through fog The Unicorn skips on lines of sticky Asphalt The father w......

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Categories: tennessee williams, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fraudulent
... "Fraudulent" A writer writes of people walking lonely dark streets begging for bread, shelter and cold without all like he’s been there tr......

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Categories: tennessee williams, depression, family, friendship, home,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Brief: Blue Roses
...A girl returned to school--still not quite well. A classmate queried, "What's been wrong with you?" She was so timid but at last could tell the boy "Pleurosis." He exclaimed, "That's new. I've ne......

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Categories: tennessee williams, color, rose, symbolism,
Form: Quintain (English)
Not Enough Gags
...(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite. He had choked on the plastic cap of his eyedrops bottle, which he habituall......

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Categories: tennessee williams,
Form: Blank verse
Three Poems Rejected This Morning
...1. Find My Way I'm going to find my jagged shard way back to you, cut through the muck of television life, burn through all the weeds, just to see you again, cross an ocean in an old Rab......

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Categories: tennessee williams, art,
Form: Free verse
Eulogy For Frank
...My father died prematurely while away on a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me, (not the same thing), adult to adult, provided I w......

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Categories: tennessee williams, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dixieland Wordpad
...Way down here In the swamps of Dixie, Where I learned to dance With gators grinning, There’s music like none You’ve ever heard. It laces the bayous In passionate tones, Enough to make you Wa......

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Categories: tennessee williams, natural disasters, music,
Form: Free verse

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