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Best Lick Your Wounds Poems

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Like You
Like you ...

I dream of drifting away on a sunny day
high above the cottony stuffed clouds
I'll glide erasing all the hurtful feeling inside 
a season...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lick your wounds, art, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Heart Song On a Milk Carton. (Reposted)
Wont you find me here?
  Drifting in an expanse of swirling storm
Outstreched fingers graze debris...
         recklessly...

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Categories: lick your wounds, introspection, loss, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Pieces of a Letter
Pieces of A Letter

Tonight is tonight that I
Find out where I stand
I’m nervous, shaking
Trembling in my hand
You kept telling me that between
Us things would get...

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Categories: lick your wounds, lost love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
For Maya Angelou: Like a Cherished Effigy
I hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And...

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Categories: lick your wounds, bereavement, death, heartbroken, memorial,
Form: Epitaph
Time
Time-
That is 
All I ask.
Time to be old
Time to lick my wounds
For the battle was long
And the gains were few at times
But the victory was...

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Categories: lick your wounds, age,
Form: Etheree



"the Road of Love"
If my tears can fill a bucket...
Then my smile shall fill the sky...
If my hurt never came...
Then my love would never hide...
Without a fall or...

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Categories: lick your wounds, inspirationallove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mailman
Beware the dog they said, I only brought the mail
(the iron mailbox stands inside a gate with locks)
Had to extend my arm to reach that...

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Categories: lick your wounds, dog, funny, humorous,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sore Losers
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In tight contests, 
rivals flash sour,
scheming smiles 
of ignominies.

                ...

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Categories: lick your wounds, sports
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Every Day I Die
I cry yet do not weep
The remnants of my pillaged decaying heart
Lay in the putrid  foul gutter deep
Beneath your feet
Cursed at birth wounded throughout...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lick your wounds, confusion, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Victory Woods, Or the Battle of Saratoga
That day in the October sun
The British they marched along
Across Mater Barber’s wheat field
A force in red, quite strong.
The drummer drummed, fifers they played
We heard...

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Categories: lick your wounds, america, freedom, history, independence
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Barnacle On My Bum Part 2
My tale about the barnacle I bared upon my bum
has now passed into legend and folk law
The  battle I thought was over and now...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lick your wounds, crazy, fun, funny, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After the Election
After the election,
at least two things will continue without interruption: death and taxation.
After the election,
two kinds of people, the rich and the poor, will remain...

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Categories: lick your wounds, education, hyperbole, internet, political,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Young and No Telling
once was twenty of age and not a dime in my pocket
exile in a silence of foreign i was called an alien

want to see UFO...

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Categories: lick your wounds, miracle,
Form: Free verse
From Brown Eyes To Blue
From my brown eyes to yours of turquoise blue
I must express my deepest gratitude

On the street you might have appeared fearsome
A man with an axe...

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Categories: lick your wounds, animals, thank youfamily, family,
Form: Rhyme
Last Dance
A skip in my step and a smile as i jump
A tap on the shoulder in my throat forms a lump
Grin as it does and...

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Categories: lick your wounds, dance, encouraging, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs