Best Bulky Poems
The Sheep Before Christmas...'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And the chickens were settled asleep on the nes......
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Categories:
bulky, adventure, animal, christmas, december,
Form:
Quatrain
Woman In 2017...Fight hard
as long as you're not too defensive
or worse, stronger than him
so we can't tell that he hit you
so we don't have to pick up your slack
Speak your mind
as long as your voice isn't......
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Categories:
bulky, society, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Punching Preachers...two bible-blabbering, prattling pastors
from two denominational sectors
ended up in stitches and bloody plasters;
those around said it actually began
when one yelled, "faith......
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Categories:
bulky, introspection, people, social,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Mountain Speaks...(This is a "childhood" poem, written many years ago.)
High above the pristine falls
the looming mountain lifts its walls.
A monolith of stony gray,
with bulky lips, it seems to say:
"Eons pass......
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Categories:
bulky, allegory, family, fantasy, hope,
Form:
Couplet
3 Love Poems: a Gift, Now I Know, Why You...A GIFT
You've given me
a piece of your soul
inside a sunken brown envelope
written handle with care
as if I was born heavy-handed.
You've telescoped
my soul once more
in its caravan
on a mo......
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Categories:
bulky, love
Form:
Free verse
A Photograph Captured...
Deep in the Florida steamy everglades,
A single blue heron strides in cobalt blue water;
Regal and grand with grey and azure plume feathers,
The call- a harsh ......
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Categories:
bulky, bird, nature,
Form:
Verse
Sheer Bliss...The weatherman is trying hard to find
Another way to say rain is forecast.
He knows we hate him when he must remind
That we should be prepared for rain to last.
Two weeks ago we thought spring ha......
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Categories:
bulky, happiness, house, rain, day,
Form:
Ode
Raindrops Falling...
The roof seems to have come alive
Raindrops now treading softly on tip toes
The skies clouded with cottons full of water
They drip down as though they are squeezed
Black turns white and so t......
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Categories:
bulky, nature, rain, rain, today,
Form:
Free verse
Old Hobo Dies Hard...Train whistles still call me
in the dead of night
recalling wanderlust
days of youth, tugging
something
inside me tight
Vacant curiosity of what
might have been
another place
another lifetim......
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Categories:
bulky, feelings, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Newborn...A newborn baby
fresh from Heaven is sent here
with wisdom beyond our own.
We’re fools to think it
is dumb because it can’t speak;
but, babies are very wise.
They possess knowled......
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Categories:
bulky, baby, birth, child, children,
Form:
Choka
Tusks...achingly ...
he still recalled
as if but a day hence ...
the air still moved, tender
the earth a-sole, still trembling
grasses parting like swells for a mighty prow
dust from bulky feet in diap......
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Categories:
bulky, animal, farewell, nature, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Struggle...HE STRUGGLE
Heated walls Suffocating air
Warm bed sheets
Soft, steaming pillow.
Prickly heat, Trickling sweat
Crossed midnight, exhausted body
The cock’s crow disturbed my rest
Need to rush......
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Categories:
bulky, anxiety, change, conflict, depression,
Form:
Free verse
September Rhapsody...
Written: September 330, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest
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A brown ribbon-like road with a blue sky.
A jungle of green, with the sky peekin......
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Categories:
bulky, analogy, september,
Form:
Rhyme
Ham Versus Hog...Let me tell you a story
From a time gone by
The tale of a greedy butcher
And a pig that could fly
In the little village of Piddle Brook
There lived a butcher named Mr.Ham
He was bearded, bulky, and ......
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Categories:
bulky, animal, fantasy, flying, food,
Form:
Ballad
Holiday Lights...Here on display, one million twinkling lights
Brilliant designs with colors that delight
All for a holiday that’s met with heart
Giving is the key, sharing is the part
Bulbs that are......
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Categories:
bulky, holiday,
Form:
Sonnet