Best Eggshells Poems

From a mouthful of this morning’s eggs,
I pull bits of char from yesterday’s breakfast.
‘I had no chance to scrub the pan’, I plea with myself-
But...

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Dancing on eggshells
Pursuing my groove
Correcting my posture
In  hopes to improve

My tip toes are bare
In our home built of glass
I take each, ginger step
With fear...

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Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came...

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punctuation walks
on eggshells
when
words like
               water
      ...

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Horrible, my map upended our time with boot camp son.
Horrible to get back to base, not be caught, had to run.

Horrible, to see Mom hurried...

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The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes...

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Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site...

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Haunting Memories
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Verses in italics by Jesse Whitehead
Verses in normal font by Timothy Hicks



birds in tuxedos
marching through snow
stifled laughter
 
a pair of short legs
behind the coats
 
patient...

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There are certain people
 who appear to be normal on the outside 
like the have it all together.
To me, these people remind me of walking...

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If you're standing and nobody sees
If nobody hears you do you cease to be
 
How much of yourself will you lose to this game
Without holding...

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I'm contemplating killing my other me,
The one who fronts for the five figure manager at Ruby Tuesday for a job,
Struggling to tie loose ends, so...

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Words like darts in the heat of the moment
Can tattoo the skin you're in
Once expressed, you have to own it
You can't scribble them out with...

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I’m Okay With You

I’m okay with you.
Doesn’t matter what you think—
Politically or religiously.
I like you even though we disagree.
I like talking to you about music...

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Reality check... I’ve noticed the
Elastic waistband has
Started to get even tighter on my  wife's pants ....
Only I daren't suggest she gives up candy -
Lets...

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