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Best Paperweight Poems

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Expensive Paperweight
I 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



Paperweight
I made a paper airplane
    From the paper heart
             ...

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Categories: paperweight, cute love, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paperweight
====================
this black paperweight

holds everything I might need

except a full charge
====================...

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Categories: paperweight, fun, irony,
Form: Senryu
Paperweight
Do 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
Paperweight
I 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



Paperweight
Nothing’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 Hold
I 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 Sauces
Reducing 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?
Indulgence
A 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 Yarn
Nine 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?
Premium Member My Desk Gives Life
Written 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 Shadow
A 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things