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Behind The Eight Ball
Behind The Eight Ball Poems - Poems about Behind The Eight Ball
Behind The Eight Ball
...His chapstick soft lips Distracted me From the perverse taste Of stale cigarettes He inhaled Between every other word But it didn’t Make my sagacious heart Uneasy He was winso......
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Ali Lynn
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
deep, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Knowing Or Learning
... Knowing Or Learning Miracle Man 4/27/2024 Should any man think, that he knows it all, he’s setting himself up for a king sized fall. A mind that’s churning, Will keep you learning, ......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
how i feel,
Form:
Limerick
I Walked Away From the Fast Bucks
...I took that walk thru the forest of redemption I followed a trail and saw normal people However, I wasn't one of them At that time, I was like that hamster on a wheel Running in circles with the......
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Connie Pachecho
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
dark, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
8 Ball
...Much of my life I’ve lived behind the eight ball. More than a few steps behind the rest. Isolation surrounds my heart like a cloud. I feel like a prompt for Benaim’s sweet potato, Every few ste......
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Rich Rogers
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
fear, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Un-Me
...The anxiety boils up inside my bowels and Presses up under my heart. Right before it breaks into the back of My throat and tears my speech apart. Can't get the words to come out but what flo......
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Brian Michael
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
angst, anxiety, conflict, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Hustle and Flow of Reflection
...For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction like the striking of billiard balls but when worlds collide souls in twist and become bonded in ways people would never think. Being behind the......
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Joseph Gaydon
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
age, deep, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
After the Covid Plague
...When all the sick Are put to rest Train station And plague ships Are empty Retributions are fought And paid Nature Again Forced from towns Highways and byways Rumble and hum To the movem......
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Dominic Middleton
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
birth, death, farewell, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Rapid Fire Rhyme
...There was a time I knew nothing about rhyme, in a place with drugs and crime and I was crawling through the grime. Like looking through a kaleidoscope cause my only friends were alcohol and dope, I w......
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Milton Robertson
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
assonance, character, confidence, destiny,
Form:
I do not know?
Pillows
...Pillows Outside My Sofa' radiation keeps me from drawing nearer... that inner pulse to regain the coast that innocent exposure; sever the impulse feel large take a hold of its plain' let me b......
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Mario Vitale
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Defined By Idioms
...Defined By Idioms Naked truth, bent nails dead men tell no tales bad Apple, broken mirrors burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears spilt milk, goose chase two cents worth, rat race rotten egg......
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Judge Santiago Burdon
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Wind Blew the Castle Down
...Her wind blew the castle down she asked me to give her work a call I did, she called in sick that's all ......
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Connie Pachecho
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form:
Monorhyme
Roar
...Always young at heart and old in soul never at ease in the linked up, stuck-up clichés of childhood or the bizarre unfriendly world of adulthood, I always roared…at five my boyfriend Dave was four......
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Debbie Guzzi
Categories:
behind the eight ball,
love
Form:
Free verse