Best Flesh Out Poems
Excise Exercise 1: Today is the Day
...Excise Exercise 1.
Today is the Day she prints out her poems-
a careful first time collation of black and white,
and every color to be seen, in between.
Her Heart clings to words of lost love. ......
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Categories:
flesh out, change, growth, health, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Shade Tree Mechanic
...Once upon a time I could change the oil and give the car a lube,
Tune the timing, change the plugs and patch an inner tube.
In days of yore I'd do simple jobs beneath the old elm tree.
Nowadays, I......
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Categories:
flesh out, funnychange,
Form:
Rhyme
Nostalgia
...On those nights when the ghosts walk around your house,
And a strange child's laughter rings familiar
Even ice cream has no use
Days gone by, instilled in sepia
Flesh out the glow of love long pa......
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Categories:
flesh out, adventure
Form:
Haiku
The Perspective of a Halloween Candle....
...Bright, orange, white, flicker.....
Two black eyes, one dark mouth viewed,
I'm the flame inside
They trim the flesh out
Stubby children's hands; entrails
I'm the flame inside
My face-like w......
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Categories:
flesh out, holiday
Form:
Haiku
I Wish I Know Why
...I WISH I KNOW WHY
A clot of blood into fetus my full form appear,
So unique I know for I have no siblings;
I rip pictures off my wall,
Names of fake dudes out of my list;
I wish I know why, at......
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Categories:
flesh out, self
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Medieval Ages Work Still In Progress
...I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictio......
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Categories:
flesh out, africa, allegory, city, faith,
Form:
Epic
King In a Cornfield
...KING IN A CORNFIELD
When my effigy was impaled
for all to see
yours, on the other hand found a place to hide
around the outer edges of my grotesque.
And while you laugh at......
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Categories:
flesh out, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
Let There Be Limericks: To All You Wannabe Poets
...I
To all you wannabe poets,
Here's a word of advice ere you start:
If you want folks to love it,
Keep your ego out of it,
When you write always write from the heart.
II
It's great fun to wri......
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Categories:
flesh out, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Limerick
A Christmas Tale
...A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...
There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And deci......
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Categories:
flesh out, christmas, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Suffering
...I lie amongst the rats all curled up
Crying
Tears of anger, helplessness and pain
I lie in wait
The worst is yet to come
I shake uncontrollably
I am helped up, only to be pushed back down
......
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Categories:
flesh out, death
Form:
Free verse
I Hate Robocalls
...I turn off damn ringer,
nonetheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four seven
eight days a week
automated telephone calls
digitally recorded message
perfectly spoken English
differentiati......
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Categories:
flesh out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Ha ha ha gotcha!
...Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!
The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suff......
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Categories:
flesh out, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Two Steps Forward, One Back
...It is grand when it works which is most of the time,
Man's path both hope and prayer you see,
Most times progress is possible! Look! Here's a rhyme!
If you work at it, you could be me!
It seems......
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Categories:
flesh out, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost and Found
...The precipitous day drools on
yellow and slightly rancid, buttressed in buttery light
by a gray glazed glint from the Pacific.
Vertical skeletons of flesh and concrete bob
with a halluc......
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Categories:
flesh out, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
I Hate Robocalls
...I hate robocalls!
Inxs of recorded messages
transmitted automatically
to my telephone number
by automatic dialing device.
I turn off damn ringer,
and disassemble (carefully
as disabl......
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Categories:
flesh out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse