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Backstop Poems - Poems about Backstop


Dreams Do This, Catcher

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"Dreams do this, Catcher" 

mystery in the heart
misleads the kiss
the kiss bleeds 
like a somersault
backwards 
into the comfort
of the dream

we find hidden notes 
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Categories: backstop, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIn the Land of Opportunity

...In the Land of Opportunity
    Entitlement reared her pretty head
  Without a backstop to plain bad luck
    Social Security's safety net was spread

  Next came the 'War on Poverty'
    Food S...
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Categories: backstop, career, education, money, usa,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPatience - the Gold Standard

...With children
           ~ Patience ~
         Love’s backstop...
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Categories: backstop, children, love, parents,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberIf You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxvi

...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXVI

IF you pull that long-besieged face
Back and forth to Brussels in Brexit bob-sleigh
Deal or No-Deal backstop Customs excise nor phase 
EU patience and mak...
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Categories: backstop, break up, destiny, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberIf You Pull a Long Face - Part Xix

...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XIX

IF you pull a long plucky face
Even when I-Ee-You let you have your way
Placed no impediment for the divorce
Let you keep key to backstop exit doorway

Y...
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Categories: backstop, color, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Subterranean Homesick Blues Again

...Dan's on the mezzanine 
asking where the mayor lives 
I'm on the dole line, 
wondrin bout conservatives 
The man with the leg cramps 
boot camps wheel clamps 
says they cut his food stamps. 
L...
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Categories: backstop, satire,
Form: Lyric

Spring of Life

...Out to the bleacher
We were drawn
By sun burning down,
Melting stubborn
White snow mounds,
While the girls
Still with wintry-pale legs
Trotted the bases
Or lowered to grateful grass
In the b...
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Categories: backstop, desire, growing up, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWild Ways

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Thru all the things that could be, and all the things that have been,
You, my son, have led your life… as if living it were a sin.

You’ve danced in all the confusion, the fallou...
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Categories: backstop, caregiving, confusion, fear, growing
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things