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Best Notching Poems

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What Is a Man
What Is “A Man”? 

   A man is:
when you sculpt a piggy bank of clay giving it the shape of a man,
notching a...

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Categories: notching, music, children, giving,
Form: Free verse



Reflections In a Glass Room
"Gleaming diamonds in sediment seams,
The trickling washes slithering into streams,
Notching clouds serrating luminescent beams,
Hazy mirage of mosaic jigsaw dreams,
The interlocking notches of ones jeans,
Assorted tiles...

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Categories: notching, adventure, allusion, beauty, blessing,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Once I Was a Prince - Part Two
Once i was a prince in your eyes my every wish granted
        even before I could wish it
eevaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: notching, family, me, water, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Ancestors Are Watching
My parents found the perfect way to make me behave on each step of the life I’m notching…they told me whatever I do good or...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: notching, family,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No Joke
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth...

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Categories: notching, abuse, body, dark, family,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Sundial
Sundial
My passion is the silent weather vane
The gambrel brought such sorrow
Much I marveled this roughcast cairn
Eagerly I looked for the lintel

I have dreamed of the...

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Categories: notching, adventure, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
If I Died Today March 2nd, 2020
If I died today March 2nd, 2020...?

No matter unfulfilled dreams never came true,
nevertheless yours truly doth gladly bid adieu,
where repurposed afterlife (mine) atomic brew
reconfigured, reconstituted,...

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Categories: notching, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epitaph
Walking Staff
One more breath
notching the scarred pole
that I carry
    walking down my path,
passing thousands
        sitting on...

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Categories: notching, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Austin On Jeopardy
If you've recently watched Jeopardy, Austin's a mind blower  
With unbelievable knowledge and a delightful antics ogre
Keeps all of us watching
Big dollars he's notching
But...

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Categories: notching, celebrity,
Form: Limerick
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
I haint donning royal carpet treatment

No stuntman/woman showed up, 
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced 
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet...

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Categories: notching, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Schizophrenia
When did you start hearing voices,
when did they start making choices
to determine your world

and crack that first bottle
or did the first pipe full smash on...

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Categories: notching, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of...

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Categories: notching, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
Aw shucks, I did sustain
moderately serious injury
series of unfortunate events
ludicrous and quite insane,
yours truly did previously explain
while crouching (think

Tony as papier mâché Tiger),
aye fell backward,...

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Categories: notching, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A World Without You
Without you there would be no dirty hoes or moldy dishes 
I'd hook up with a wild one in less than a New York minute~
Every...

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Categories: notching, absence, adventure, candy,
Form: Couplet
Can Hardly Wait
On an early and one misty morn
Our incredible Christ child was born
When the sun soon started to rise,
God's Son was born to our surprise.

In a...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: notching, religious,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things