Best Head Off Poems
Incident At Milton Creek Silver Mine...Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street
And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet
It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek
Preparation......
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Categories:
head off, america, christmas, december, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Survivors Guilt...It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge of the platform, when I had a heart attack
I clutched my chest i......
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Categories:
head off, death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
A Day On the Farm...
"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya... ifn' you really wanna know."
The day start......
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Categories:
head off, farm, myth,
Form:
Prose
Male Mantis Murder...Subtitled: WELL! You didn't have to bite my HEAD off...
Gladly would I die
for your love, my dear. No! Wait!
Just kidding! Just kid.........
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Categories:
head off, funny, insect, nature,
Form:
Senryu
Background Music Before Sleep...In the asphalt homeland
I lay down to sleep
In the background
a saxophone wails
and relaxes tired muscles
Streetlights cut through the darkness
The day has passed
as days do
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Categories:
head off, music, sleep, urban,
Form:
Free verse
Sad Sammy Starfish...Sad Sammy starfish, all alone on the beach
Wishes to find a soulmate, but no one is in reach
He looks around, raises his hands into the air
Is there a lonely starfish somewhere out ther......
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Categories:
head off, beach, cute love, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir...Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad......
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Categories:
head off, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
My Cousin Chaos...A cousin named Chaos have I (he’s not actually my cousin. He’s like my aunt’s stepson, but I guess I can still call him a cousin, right?)
There’s nothing that he will not try (li......
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Categories:
head off, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Sweats and Sweets...Time to head off to the gym, for my daily work out session
Tummy bulging, thighs are wobbling, my body is in regression
Once I was toned and oh so slim
But the lure of sweets just sucked m......
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Categories:
head off, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A Ride In Dylan's Voice...Woke up this morning
on the wrong side of the tracks.
Left out leaving for all the right reasons
and all the wrong facts.
Caught a ride with a traveling preacher
in a beat up van.
Said ......
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Categories:
head off, journey, religion,
Form:
Love On Solid Ground...On egg shells she walks
Hoping one will not break
For the head games will start
She does not want to partake
He jumps to wrong conclusions
That are farthest from the truth
He always assumes the wors......
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Categories:
head off, pain, relationship,
Form:
Quatrain
I Can'T Stop the Bleeding...My daughter is dying and as I'm praying, I'm pleading.
She has been stabbed and I can't stop the bleeding.
An ambulance is on its way but it may not arrive in time.
My daughter wouldn't put out so......
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Categories:
head off, boyfriend, dark, daughter, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dragon Walkie...I was out walking my dragon, when I came across a Dogasaurus Rex.
It really wasn’t so bad until; they got into a real life-pissing contest.
My dragons’ roar was way less than his, and spitting fire......
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Categories:
head off, adventure, fantasy, fire, funny,
Form:
Light Verse
Collaborating With Trixie My Muse...So many possibilities parade up and down the perimeter of the page.
Some wiggle their petootsies at me; one sticks out her tongue.
Being super confident, adorable, and quietly intrusive is the rage......
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Categories:
head off, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
One Mean Rooster...When I was young, we moved often, but then we bought
a farm; in the spring at the feed and seed
Daddy purchased two dozen chicks
In the small pen they're placed
Momma cared for them, giving ......
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Categories:
head off, childhood, fear,
Form:
Rhyme