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Absence Abc Poems

These Absence Abc poems are examples of Abc poems about Absence. These are the best examples of Abc Absence poems written by international poets.


man and his dog
Man and his dog

He awoke under the bed, and it had been his birthday
drinking champagne, eating Danish pastry, and smoking Havana cigars
He walked into the...

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Categories: absence, abuse, adventure,



smoke
The Wardrobe 

I opened the wardrobe door 
There they hang, suits and trousers
worn so long, looking pale
copies of my figure
This can't go on, in a...

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Categories: absence, anger, break up,

horn music
Horn Music

In the late forties and middle fifties 
horn music and military marches tunes
were often parlayed in the town's park 
and we lived nearby and...

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Categories: absence, age, anti bullying,

the conference
The conference 

I had gone to a writer's conference
The room was full of authors only interested
in reading and pushing their book
I had brought a book called...

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Categories: absence, adventure, age, social,

a movie star
A film star
It was not her creamy body that caught 
My attention, nothing unusual about it
Curvaceous, yes but going soft, it was 
Here eyes, in...

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Categories: absence, adventure, america, art,



unwritten page
Unwritten page
An unwritten page on a Word processor, I ought to leave it this way 
look and dream of what I could have written on...

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Categories: absence, abuse, age,

a yellow silk scarf
A Yellow silk scarf
He bought a yellow silk scarf at a second-hand shop
In Cheshire, the type actors were, when meeting for
A drinks party; the mirror...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction,

after the concert
After the concert

Now, in the afternoon of my life
My thoughts are about love and romance
These pesky things are disturbing 
My tough exterior makes me soft...

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Categories: absence, adventure, art, august,

winter of discontent
Winter of Discontent

Cloudiness has settled in the sky
An act of unpalatable truth of the kind
A summer sun easily hides 
Old dwellings are full of cracks...

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Categories: absence, adventure, age,

Gaza
Gaza
The baby
Wrapped in a blanket
Looks at the camera
Emaciated face
Large eyes
Incomprehensively
Looks at me
I lower my gaze
Who is going to
Switch off
The killing machine
This harvester of 
Of death
Not...

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Categories: absence, abuse, age, angst,

genetic pool
The Genetic pool 

I’m my father’s son, I carry his genes
He is a part of me that is inseparable
If I hate him, I dislike myself...

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Categories: absence, anti bullying, art,

serenity
Serenity

At the corner shop
They have sold out happiness 
On sticks 
They sell fresh bread
Also, plastic toys 
The greengrocer next door
Sell carrots, cabbage, and leeks 
But...

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Categories: absence, age, art, assonance,

thoughts in the night
thoughts in the night

 

The wind is terrible, races around like a drunken

dervish hollering in the night, but when tired of

This needless validating of masculinity...

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Categories: absence, adventure, age, brother,

the past and the future
The past and the future

A war was coming our way as a patriot, I enlisted 
Although I was a bit elderly, I was accepted 
sent...

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Categories: absence, abuse, adventure, age,

the weight
The weight
He had written two short books
needed to show her his work,
Not now, she said, I’m watching TV
Around the beam that keeps the heaven’s roof...

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Categories: absence, abuse, age,


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