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Best Husked Poems

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Miseducation of the *******
Mentors like priests preparing me for holy rite
Institutional slaves to a false trinity
Subduing adventure, exploration and discovery to classroom rigor
Eternal stairway ... moonbeams to the...

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Categories: husked, black-african amereducation, me,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.

Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear...

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Categories: husked, culture, family, farm, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Throwing the Last Stone
the episode took place near the sewer
the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground
his white clothes dipping in red
a rowdy mob encircled him
like vultures awaiting...

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Categories: husked, funeral,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Burlap Bags
I live alone; I pick pecans.
When leaves are dry
or wet upon the ground,
I thrash the trees.
I break from branches
undropped, green-husked nuts
and pull the fleshy hulls
from...

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Categories: husked, angst, depression, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Brave Fall
We lingered too the passenger like
awaiting the snake that runs on dike
We sat, hands tied to lower jaw like
Mom waiting for her dour child to...

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Categories: husked, confidence, courage, hope, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gristmill
So, this  is where the sheaves were hauled
Where corn was husked, and seeds were hulled

So, this is where the meal was ground,
until the clock...

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Categories: husked, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892
In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks,
And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped...

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Categories: husked, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
A Twin Fireless Room
The hearts that do not beat
Quiet in the viaduct;
        A steeled echo husked
Alchemic clones vastly entreat.

I slipped you...

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Categories: husked, horror, surreal,
Form: Quatrain
Woo Is Frying!
The woman with red rose vine

up her thighs and thine

showed me the way

and invited tryin,

did she wear rose perfume,too?

did I ask

she coyly husked umm yeah

Lol...

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Categories: husked, lifewoman, me, rose,
Form: Free verse
I Got Friggin Heebie Jeebies
I got friggin heebie jeebies

Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission 
to be lovey dove...

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Categories: husked, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Harvest
These leavings are devastating. 
I feel husked and scraped
The cobb cast on the bin
While destiny enjoys my entrails.
A continuos cycle of harvest
Where heaven recieves the...

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Categories: husked, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Collab Convos Jt
Jazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound 
Moons  to profile the edge of weather 
And sun to...

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Categories: husked, august, autumn, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
I Liked Cake
Mattie & I
on the stream of
 
Soda Can 
the heavenly hills

Of Hats.
The howling husked heard;

Just The Night Owls
And the waxes of weltering wobble of worms

All...

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Categories: husked, loss
Form: Blank verse
The Buzzard
Within the common (all purpose room)
     at highland manor apartments aye
daily encounter, one bewitchingly dreaded
     fiendishly horrible,...

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Categories: husked, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Marked Stag
I remember us
Your voice husked with passion
Your eyes incredulously bright, wet, and near
My will like crumbling dust
It was so sudden and unexpected, your will
To yield...

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Categories: husked, friendship, lost loveme, heart,
Form: Free verse

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