Best Paperweight Poems
Below are the all-time best Paperweight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of paperweight poems written by PoetrySoup members
Expensive PaperweightI see you straight tripping
When you see my cell phone still flipping
Yeah, you think you're the shizzle
Drop it in water it still gonna fizzle
How's this...
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Categories:
paperweight, slam, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
paperweight, cute love, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Paperweight====================
this black paperweight
holds everything I might need
except a full charge
====================...
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Categories:
paperweight, fun, irony,
Form:
Senryu
PaperweightDo you know what it feels like to be a paperweight
like you're sitting on someone's chest
They can't move nor do you want to
pinning their arms...
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Categories:
paperweight, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
PaperweightI am a paper
you are weight
without you
I’d fly away
and with you
I am crumpled
crushed under
and faded with age...
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Categories:
paperweight, conflict, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
PaperweightNothing’s lost till you stop searching;
it’s still on Earth man
with no reason it couldn’t be yours again.
And if every little moment serves a purpose
forgetting would be...
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Categories:
paperweight, song-lyric
Form:
Rhyme
Uppity Darkie
Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad,
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of...
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Categories:
paperweight, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form:
Bio
To Have But Not To HoldI cannot offer a gift for you to hold,
no millefiori paperweight of brightly coloured glasses,
or fancy timepiece cast from golds of yellow and white,
for it...
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Categories:
paperweight, friendship, love
Form:
Free verse
How Clever You Are Reducing SaucesReducing sauces is a clever act that is not predetermined
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice...
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Categories:
paperweight, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
IndulgenceA granite bust statuette of Nefertiti
Bought at Abu Simbel on our Egyptian cruise
Serves us as a solid paperweight
On windy mornings reading the 'Weekly News'.
A...
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Categories:
paperweight, inspirational
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Ninety Times a Fish Tail Equals a Spun YarnNine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice...
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Categories:
paperweight, baby, baseball, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
My Desk Gives LifeWritten by Paula Swanson
Here at my desk I sit,
with silence all around.
Just the hum of the frig,
a clock in the background.
An old brass lamp...
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Categories:
paperweight, on writing and wordsinspirational,
Form:
Lay
Synonym?As I flicker speedily through the channels on my TV screen,
I pause because a man now lifts and anvil twice my weight above his head,
Which...
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Categories:
paperweight, life, mother, passion, thank
Form:
Free verse
My ShadowA constant reminder of what’s surrounding me
The vacuum of evil that seeks to suck me in
That the light will fade and I too will cease...
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Categories:
paperweight, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Holiday of a Lifetime"A week long holiday in a glass paperweight" that holds a dandelion puff.
We remember childhood wishes. All day long we tiptoe 'round it being careful...
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Categories:
paperweight, allegory, anxiety, holiday,
Form:
Prose