Best Clumsily Poems
The Queen Size Bed
...“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
© London F. Buss
A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
down the rough dirt track.
As it drew closer,
The wheels clumsily mounted on the base of each leg,
ra......
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Categories:
clumsily, death, for her, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Ironbar
...He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where......
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Categories:
clumsily, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
THE STORY OF BABY ELLIE
...
Ellie was just three months old,
When she was brought to our sanctuary,
A safe haven was our fold.
She was an orphan, her mother,
Her sister, her aunt, her brother,
All chased and shot, and ......
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Categories:
clumsily, death,
Form:
Free verse
My Simple Valentine Story
...dancing clumsily -
shy blue cowboy eyes smiling. . . .
he swept me away
marriage fast foreknown -
no proposal from his lips. . . .
just lots of kisses
my man of few words
tells me, “I’ll ......
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Categories:
clumsily, devotion, love
Form:
Senryu
A Scrappy Little Nest
...Flightless, the smallest such bird,
he’s hopping about madly now,
dexterous little feet grab what they can -
he lost his beak decades ago
to a merciless marauder drone –
here, some tiny, thorny ......
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Categories:
clumsily, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Fractured
...My grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an eternal well and took my father out to buy prostitutes when h......
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Categories:
clumsily, childhoodfather, father, grandfather, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Behind Cryptic Doors
...Clumsily tripping, over our own feet
Sometimes, minds aren't meant to meet
perhaps we're off just a micro beat
thoughts obscured, behind glass covered in sleet
Sure there are those, who wish to......
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Categories:
clumsily, angst, appreciation, poetry,
Form:
On Rescuing An Injured Pigeon
...ON RESCUING AN INJURED PIGEON
I.
sliding screen door screeches, pigeons scatter
thump of wing against breast, shockwave breeze
more frequent than in the past, shimmering necks
soundtrack squirr......
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Categories:
clumsily, analogy, animal, pain,
Form:
Personification
Fate's Occasion
...Singular and thus finite
begins the spiral's spinning plight
of eminent foretold collision
love commences in a vision
Unbeknownst before the time
an effigy that burns the mind
now filters clear, emo......
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Categories:
clumsily, beautiful, beauty, emotions, image,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Anatomy of Melancholy
...In dizzy terrors, the ominous, relentless pull
of the numb night; sneers, shortcuts
clumsily trod; meandering the easy paths
where sins and lies are perfected and
nourished into pseudo truths tha......
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Categories:
clumsily, depression,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Cautiously Optimistic
...I Am cautiously optimistic
I Wonder what I will do for the rest of my life
I Hear violins when I dance barefoot under the moon
I See Jonathan Livingston circling rainbows in the sky
I Want to be ......
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Categories:
clumsily, introspection, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Purple
...I smell no Jasmines, Daisies or Geraniums this Summer
Nor my soul desires an ancient amphora
Crimson riddles my skin
My mind is an Amethyst.
An Amaranth a fixed star; an amulet
To whic......
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Categories:
clumsily, allegory, joy, love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Facets
...She was all that and much more
The child with the smiles and the braids
White dresses, friendly nods and compliancy
Muddy shoes, trees and cursing
Sent away from school and fr......
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Categories:
clumsily, beautiful, emotions, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Car Court
...CAR COURT
Enter, the older heavyweight steel giant,
The bailiff, a 1954 Hudson, reads unhesitant :
On the docket for this morning : guilty by implication - a Trabant,
In c......
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Categories:
clumsily, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form:
Verse
Wish I Knew You When I Was Young
...
Wish I knew you when I was young
Wish I knew you when I was young
When journey of my desires had just begun
As lyrics of my romantic life were being written
And the song of my......
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Categories:
clumsily, desire, longing,
Form:
Verse