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Best Hankered Poems

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Stars I Hankered After
To slumber, when I did surrender 
Someone gave me Untimely Call 
Was enjoying dream hence did not answer 
Colourful STARS vying for me one and...

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Categories: hankered, loveme, dream, dream, me,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Yin and Yang of Doubtful Bay
A subtle march hush saddles the valley
whilst dawn’s reveille is the seagulls call
staid water’s brim against ancient galley
once flew the ensign how the mighty fall.
For...

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Categories: hankered, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Who Are We At Our Core
An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed...

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Categories: hankered, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gothic Grace -
She had a gothic heart,
predictability and tamming tranquility were her counterparts,
she felt pain as gain,

peace was nettlesome and purposeless,
an abomination that careless civilization is undeserving...

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Categories: hankered, passion, woman,
Form: Ode
Ghosts of Buzzard's Breath
© 2009 (Jim Sularz)

Quiet mounds of yellowed tailings and dead weeds whisper low.
And proud rusting relics telling tales of striking gold.
The rush from East, from...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hankered, funny, history, humorous,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Where the Streets Are Full of Pity
Last night I met an old boxer in an alley of cardboard; he seemed glad to see me, 
shouted me over for a fight, I...

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Categories: hankered, addiction, sad,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Novel Use For a Plumber's Snake
Pa hankered cheeses of every kind.

   Alas, it placed him in a painful bind!

      "For fast relief", said...

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Categories: hankered, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Not So Friendly Discussions
Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before...

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Categories: hankered, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Cowpuncher Jawbones With His Horse
I reckon to us city dudes an' ordinary blokes it seems somewhat strange,
But a cowpoke an' his horse become pards when ridin' the lonely range!
Pausin'...

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Categories: hankered, cowboy-western, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member American Pies and Porkies
American Pies and Porkies

I’m not American though I spent a year in California the land of beaches Hollywood 
‘flower power’ ‘Big Sur’ with dopey dreams...

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Categories: hankered, community,
Form: Free verse
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen
this cautious man (bobby jean) born in the u.s.a.
grownin’ up in the badlands of atlantic city
bonded with blood brothers 
felt born to run along backstreets
in...

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Categories: hankered, appreciation, celebration, celebrity, dedication,
Form: Light Verse
Disappointments
There is a cold and aimless fear
that grips our longing and aim—
like the talons of a hankered fowl,
readying itself to the plunge
of some inevitable sorrow…...

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Categories: hankered, appreciation, courage, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cardboard City
(Where the streets are full of pity)

Last night! I met an old boxer
in an alley of cardboard;
he seemed glad to see me,
shouted me over for...

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Categories: hankered, angst, me, morning, old,
Form: Narrative
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen 
born at Monmouth Medical Center 
in Long Branch, New Jersey, 
on September...

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Categories: hankered, 12th grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Submissive
The days when women stayed at home and worked
From dawn to night,
Played roles of 
Model 
Wives
She
Hankered 
For respect
But was shown none; 
Instead in silence suffered...

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Categories: hankered, marriage,
Form: Tetractys

Book: Shattered Sighs