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Except Poems - Poems about Except

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Premium Member My Dog's Eleventh Year
... It doesn’t seem possible I tell myself – eleven years already and going on twelve! I suppose I should have a party – a piece of prime beef lit with eleven candles. But he’d never get clo......Read the rest...
Categories: except, dog, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Lavender Lays Dead
...Night and day, I have wept, for the lavender lays dead, & my locks have disintegrated, down to the screw. What am I to do? When all hope is lost, except extend my apology, & find another plac......Read the rest...
Categories: except, allegory, death, deep, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rhiners Diners Cool Cats
...Grown men in fuzzy hats riding three-wheeled bikes Try to envision oldster type males on oversized trikes. One was a walrus, you cannot fool me at all, said the Prez And on his head, of course, he......Read the rest...
Categories: except, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Fruit Of The Womb
...Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that built it except the Lord keep the city, the watchman walked in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of ......Read the rest...
Categories: except, appreciation, birth, child, dad,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
...Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered ......Read the rest...
Categories: except, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative



An Open Letter
... All the days of my life, nobody helped me with money except myself and limited number of family members. I never asked any favor from anybody, but I'm very grateful to God for having very few su......Read the rest...
Categories: except, appreciation, people, world,
Form: Other
Premium Member Another Fine Spring Day
...Another fine spring day gently dying, Subtle variegated colors and Tender vivid greens are dappled now With golden flecks and dollops of buttery sunlight. Shadows begin their mysterious, meticulo......Read the rest...
Categories: except, appreciation, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FATHER MAY I CLOSE MY EYES--
...I am not given my true name I'm first from Heaven's playing until this worldly is it insane that I have no game except in my game I remain in neglect the rain meaning is my answer on to the ground ea......Read the rest...
Categories: except, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Untitled
... Mr. Me Each nation is convention Of lingvo political unity In this configuration There is no point in me Politics make tensions They cannot set the rules That satisfy their nations Exce......Read the rest...
Categories: except, humorous, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Fire and Steel and Stardust
...Eyes of fire and steel A heart full The rhythm going numb A boy cries a year younger Beside me And a year younger Than I was - Except me, It is cruel for any body To feel the longing ......Read the rest...
Categories: except, anger, grave, humanity, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Raining in Summer
...It's raining. Well, it was at least. I'm just a nobody in their parents' garage witnessing the aftermath. And it's raining. After so long. I love the rain. The way it clears the air. Makes ......Read the rest...
Categories: except, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, green,
Form: Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......Read the rest...
Categories: except, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
A Celestial Trap
...Got stuck in a celestial trap, Found myself nowhere within the gap. Fell only for the crap, Driving me insane with this verbose map! Poke my nose, pinch my ear, Don't want to reach near those ......Read the rest...
Categories: except, blessing, emotions, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disaster
...It's not a disaster, it never is It's a waiting time, pending analysis Weighed up, perhaps we learnt a lot (I'm in the camp of learning not a jot) Except it was a non event (my brain advised) T......Read the rest...
Categories: except, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Podcast Episode 25 Bop
...‘Nothing to do, they don’t need us. Hell of a lot of busy work, what are we doing sitting here ?‘ These are the twisted thoughts that plague so many people every day as they sit idle and fiddle......Read the rest...
Categories: except, emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Other

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