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Premium Member Now Is the Time To Hunker Down and Write, Poem Number Two of Series
Now Is The Time To Hunker Down And Write

Now is the time to hunker down and write
heal wounded heart, defeating dark of night
allow ink's flow,...

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Categories: hunker down, appreciation, art, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gypsy Guy
Well, Gypsy Guy would rather die than hunker down in chains,

be ridden south with bit in mouth, or heed the hold of reins.



The ruling lot...

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Categories: hunker down, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desolation
Homeless, I hunker down
next to a garbage bin.
And hail morphs into rats
gnawing at exposed skin.

Hunger twists my stomach
with pain that's hard to bear.
And a putrid...

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Categories: hunker down, angst, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Everything I've Ever Lost
In a box full of everything I’ve ever lost, 
The first thing I’d rummage for is the patience that could’ve led me 
To your open...

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Categories: hunker down, extended metaphor, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Slumber
Winter's Slumber Contest
Regina McIntosh

Winter's slumber has me in cozy places, warm and comforted
I am grateful for the wood fire that burns, many blankets I have
So...

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Categories: hunker down, appreciation, inspirational, time, winter,
Form: Free verse



Lone Survivor
Lone survivor
July 3, 2015
~+~
I sit alone in my basement all hunkered down
My faithful dog with me
Because tonight is the night of firecrackers 
And firework, yep...

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Categories: hunker down, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open All Night'
Everybody, and his brother
Stopped in, at one time, or another
Not for the greasy hash browns
Or the coffee, with a half a cup, of grounds
They weren't...

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Categories: hunker down, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rainfall Roulette and Games For Suits
As the dogs led me on our walk, I took a chance and left my raincoat behind despite the threatening clouds.  The sky turned...

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Categories: hunker down, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Performance
THE PERFORMANCE

She’s a dancer ready to chronograph her next move.
The chair is her boogie down stool.
Her hand synthesis the groove.
She looks as if her depths...

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Categories: hunker down, image,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Never Land Part 5
A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.

His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,

he bleeds and...

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Categories: hunker down, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Christmas Tale
Outside my dorm window, the snow began to fall;
Everybody had gone home, but I didn’t have a car.
Christmas break started yesterday, they’re gonna throw me...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hunker down, christmas, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Cold Winter Winds
( COLD WINTER WINDS )

The wind is chilly, it blows snow in your face.
Grab onto your loved one, and tightly embrace.
The drifts are deep, the...

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Categories: hunker down, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Storm
Thunder from afar
Wild wise creatures hunker down
Life giving rain falls...

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Categories: hunker down, environment, life, nature, rain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Major Heat Advisory
There's a heat advisory in the frozen north
Must take precautions as we go forth
Need to hunker down
Or in sweat we will drown
Dangerous times as the...

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Categories: hunker down, happiness,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Hunkering Down
Hibernation is the name of the game
As we hunker down today from the rain
200 mph winds were sustained
In that Mexican hurricane
Best let it blow over...

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Categories: hunker down, stress,
Form: Limerick

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