Best Matchstick Poems

Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man and boy 
     for generations, 
I will unemploy 
     your occupations. 

To...

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A head full of hair
Walking on a weak foundation
The chic new style fills the aisles
And sweeps entire generations
But we live in a time where all women pine
For the look of a matchstick girl!
Strange as I see them
My smile froze on my lips
I felt sorry for...

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Smoke me out and cancer
I remember when I was your stick thin, pretty grin, dimple in the chin
--nice dancer

And your navel, the bucket of my quench,
catches the spins of your call and my answer
And when your hand grabs elbows
and I laugh and spin at the...

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Matchstick Girl.

Matchstick Girl in ragged clothes,
lace up shoes and purple toes.
'Come buy your matchsticks from me sir,
your wife all fancy in her fur'.
Every night on London's streets
there were matchstick girls
with clip clop feet.
Men with sticks and big top hats,
cobbled streets with hungry cats.
Gaslights dimming out...

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match stick
giving a dancing shape to 
the gloomy legs...

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Matchstick

One tree

Yields one million

One burns one million

Trees


Date: 06/05/2019
*Modern Cinquain...

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Rain for weeks
bruised October.

The burden of bitter
air spewed from the
drain of my swollen yard.

Already the birds had turned
to pirates.
I saw the night let
a blind rag wing dive
from a tree into the rapids
of a sidewalk,
rolling, crumbling like a
mad leaf.

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