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Backhand Poems - Poems about Backhand

Didn't we all become poets ii

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/ "Like Open-Mic Explosions from the End of Language". ~ Chat-GPT /
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Madmen leaked a rash of sky-blue puddle;
fatally cloistered the hat-flu's hubble -

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- the h...
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Categories: backhand, allusion, america, hip hop,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Apples of His Eyes

...The Apple of His Eyes

reflected in the pond, the fruit
held precious in the lady’s hand.
polished by mistake; the loot
gathered with a serpentine backhand.

the limbs of oz too...
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Categories: backhand, sin,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberIrish Accents and Caps

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Irish accents quake my female southland.
Males 'neath Newsboy Caps stimulate dreamland.
Irish yearns may want touch,
Did not seek to feel such.
Ireland trips could stimulate mate's backhand....
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Categories: backhand, crush, desire, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberFrozen Shiver Shakes

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Icebergs floated all around me –
frozen is no place to safely flee.
I fell down on an ice crystal,
then I heard you whistle
and felt myself turn towards bold
so I could leave this place so c...
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Categories: backhand, betrayal, break up, character,
Form: Rhyme

Didn't we all become poets

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( Introduction: Open-Mic Explosions from the End of Language)





Madmen leaked a rash of sky-blue puddle;
fatally cloistered the hat-flu's hubble -

To wit:

- the half-time h...
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Categories: backhand, humor, parody, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Birth of the Word Witch

...What say you naive with all your poultice,
                     foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned but you better hope I die,”
           otherwise I’ll be peeling your hide,
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Categories: backhand, dark, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Random Acts of Kindness

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"Random Acts of Kindness"

you send the devil 
his reassurances 
of forgiveness 
through love
the blindness
corresponded
some generous
catharsis 
in a moment
of delus...
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Categories: backhand, dark, muse,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTennis Love

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Two sets
  Apiece
To each player
And this is the
    Final set... 
What a contest! 
Both the players
Fighting to win
   The match
     Is equal
The scoreboard
          6-6
And we e...
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Categories: backhand, love, sports,
Form: Free verse

Memory of Bones

...The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted
the plum...
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Categories: backhand, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Blue Shotgun Lantana

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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is...
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Categories: backhand, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRoyal Rumble

...Bell rings
Two kings

Tap gloves
No love 

Attack 
Hard smack 

Right hook
Well took

Left jab 
Ribs stab

Backhand 
Just lands

Sly one 
Head spun 

Elbows 
Who knows 

Eight...
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Categories: backhand, allusion, boxing day , sports,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberBackground Jilted Undercover Lover-

...Background backhand
Backdrop backbite

Pathway railways
Take-off target

Farfetch  courage
Tell tail junk mail

Distant lover
Under cover
Up start breaks heart

Jilted lover
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Categories: backhand, anxiety, heartbreak, how i
Form: Footle

Lux Vitae Lux

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"LUX VITAE LUX"



Here you stamp
your mark of 
approval or not

We meet at the point
where a Father
is the judge of what is good

and what ...
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Categories: backhand, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse

Where Did the Time Go

...And suddenly, 50 was  here, all the music got
louder, all the drivers for younger.  My hair
was on a farewell tour, visiting the sink and the
shower more than my head.  The kids got older,
some d...
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Categories: backhand, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Backhand

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"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make se...
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Categories: backhand, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

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