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Best Pickaxe Poems

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Mountain
MOUNTAIN

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Categories: pickaxe, analogy, identity, integrity, introspection,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Just Climb
Though dormant, your strengths are still present...
within the silky staircase of God woven DNA.
Just peel away layers of perceived weakness
climb through the fiery muck and...

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Categories: pickaxe, confidence, faith,
Form: Free verse
Neon (9/11)
When dulled down shock painfully became
a pickaxe ache behind shimmering eyes,
the bludgeoning screen hammered memory cells
repeatedly, over and over.
Tears exploded, soft rain dampened flame,
the grumbling...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickaxe, death, history, people, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Teaching Chimps Some Words
We should teach the chimpanzees to read
the names of certain things. Objects like tools 
for instance
then label the tools: hammer, saw, axe,
screwdriver etcetera, then screws...

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Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Rewards of Love
I seek not a robe of glittering pearls and rubies shinning bright
Give me a modest dress only not shorter than my height

A handcuff, a collar...

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Categories: pickaxe, devotion, hope, life, lost
Form: Ghazal



Premium Member The Burial, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet: L'Enterrement
The Burial, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : L’Enterrement

I know nothing as gay as a burial !
The grave-digger who sings with his pickaxe in bright...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickaxe, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Miss Andry
Miss Andry, you are truly a mystery. 
You have Revealed yourself as Artemis and Lady of Ephesus to Many. 
Miss Andry, you're mother nature that...

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Categories: pickaxe, beauty, culture, freedom, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Love Misconception
In all honesty
I believe Love is actually blind
That she lost her road
And headed straight 
Into the mess, she lays in today
I hope we all find...

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© Arum Dusu   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickaxe, bible, first love, love,
Form: Free verse
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey arose from a little town, yes my lord
A Leo lifting Harlem, kingdom bound, yes my lord
Resuscitated religion around the black man’s looks,...

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Categories: pickaxe, dedication
Form: Acrostic
Curtain Pulled Back
12/26/21


Time I make a splash
Got to fulfill important tasks
Can't rely on hiding behind masks
It won't always be what you asked

Staying intact or full of bug...

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Categories: pickaxe, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Sheer Fall
Top of the world, Ma —
See those little fingers down there?
Those tiny rivers runnin’ thru the valley —
You fall, you won’t be repaired 

Gimme pickaxe,...

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Categories: pickaxe, courage, future, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Love Embodies
What love embodies is set in stone
Only a pickaxe can break
What's truthfully there, damage prone
What the heart wants is stuck with a stake
Maybe I’m the...

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Categories: pickaxe, first love, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Reluctance Refinery
i represent an
invisible wall to
you
everytime you walk
by
i wish i was a
magician only for
you
everytime you walk
by
i would create the
most amazing art for
you
everytime you walk
by
i would totally
erase...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickaxe, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Other Ears
As if by other ears,
you hear the trees cracking,
a black ice splitting the sky,
a pickaxe laying bare
night’s white bones.

Sleepers arise
still dreaming of such things.

A cave,...

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Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Teaching Chimps Words
Teach them just enough words to know
a pickaxe from a pencil…just a few practical words
for practical applications, not too many,
The chimps could build dog kennels...

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Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things