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Backfill Poems - Poems about Backfill


Premium Member We're Probably Getting Back Together Soon
... My phone died this week. I’ve ordered a new one— I’d like to say I’ve enjoyed the silence, just lo-fi music playing, slipping into a flow state. But I’d be lying. Only a handful of friends t......

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Categories: backfill, culture, extended metaphor, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backfill
...The onset of construction Left a gaping excavation. They built a chain link fence Around the hole. Once the footers and foundation Were sufficiently established A dump truck load of gravel Di......

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Categories: backfill, allegory, character, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse



Out of the Void
...That pit in my soul… a space left unfilled The harder I struggle, the deeper it drills Its emptiness constant, dominion unsure A puppet on tethers, with vacuum secured One choice left un......

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Categories: backfill, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Up Disturb and Hissing By
...Into my head stink in mythic one hissing of running are ratters, as I hated by up nearly level of piled woodsheds rottenly sites at weediest the backyard’s place, of my neighbor’s unit close ed......

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Categories: backfill, confusion
Form: Narrative
Purple Majesty
...We had saved our precious stock of grandpa’s grape prepared the ground and amended the soil. After laying out the orchard, we planted cuttings with our own hands. Fed the young vines with love and......

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Categories: backfill, family, life, work, work,
Form: Villanelle




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