Best Handshakes Poems

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Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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I have entered a room filled with handshakes and friendship
Sharing hugs here and there, there's a buzz in the air
Soupers queued, center stage, with a...

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Broken windows give no reflection
graffiti for those who can read

concrete streets are polluted rivers
passing shoes leave bodies in need

disillusion is a crumbled sidewalk
stretching to an...

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A curious cocktail of odours greets us 
as we move in from playground
to corridor, to cloakroom, to classroom.

Beeswax fragrance: freshly buffed parquet.
Brasso smell: base metal...

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War is a time of great conflict 
bringing so much misery and suffering 
to a generation of people mistreated
on their knees in it's wake 
prayers...

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This world has fallen into chaos 
Let's awake the sleeping demon
when a certain world leader 
has used from the forbidden book 

Totalitarian dictatorship under lies...

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Rust on padlocked factory gates
from tears of broken men.
Time has stopped on the golden watch,
freeze framed memories of a better past.

Scattered faces breed sour looks
for...

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a hulking oak tree

 extends elongated boughs 

   handshakes with nature




Tree Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
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Fashion a memory, with our bright winter scene
The morning brought snow, fresh fallen and clean
Find a snug shelter, from the sharp frigid air
Welcome to my...

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I am a terrible virus, fast and wise
400 micron plus is roughly my size
I am a zoonotic, Corona is my name
Infecting unwary humans is my...

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Let us reach out and make connection
With spontaneous everlasting affection
Wake up and say it
We care! We care! 
Then do it
Starting up! Starting up! 
A gentle...

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While my happiness hawls in a dark cave of self-doubt, I smile.
Burying my brain cells in the grave of immense fear, I speak.
While my dreams...

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When blossoms fall
From the tree of life
Their ash will feed its roots
And bloom away the strife 
These ambassadors of hearts and smiles 
And handshakes
These caretakers...

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I remember the days when I was small,
 obedient and too young  to be alone at a mall
Mama would let me go out and...

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Today's children text on cell phones,
instruments of incalculable knowledge.
And yet, they have never seen a starry sky,
flickering fireflies, pheasants in flight,
or a cocky rooster strut...

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