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Best Pocketed Poems

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Premium Member Once Pocketed
(Inspired by the movie "the Rabbit Hole," starring Nicole Kidman as a 
woman, along with her husband, dealing with the grief of losing a child.)

The...

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Categories: pocketed, loss, recovery from...
Form: Triolet



Premium Member The Refugee
Running from an economy full of hate
hunger will place him behind bars unless he relocates
war and crisis lingering with the hope to end soon
have pocketed...

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Categories: pocketed, adventure, africa, death, depression,
Form: Couplet
Borders In the Borderless Society
Waft borderless borders;
within;

  The dividing line that separates the free
    and the slaves;

      where strangers come...

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Categories: pocketed, life, people, philosophy, places,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Keychains On Collarbones
I am trying to find the backdoor
From this solitary room
The silence is oppressive
Shadows paint the walls with gloom.

The entrance stood wide open
I walked in feeling...

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Categories: pocketed, confusion, depression,
Form: Couplet
A Gamble Every One
Of yesterdays……I have pocketed plenty.
Of tomorrows, will I perchance, have any ?...

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Categories: pocketed, life,
Form: Epigram



Easy Mark
She knew they
were easy marks midst
her beguiling cunning
had it in spades,
they thought they had
the better hand,
stacked the deck in their wager,
til she bet them all
under...

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Categories: pocketed, allegory, hyperbole, satire,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Cross Purposes
Squeezing out a saturated rag.
Torn asunder, pieces of a heart.
Head, eyes, lips, arms — sore-sag.

I’d thought I’d known weeping.
I was only dreaming; nightmares
hidden in caves,...

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Categories: pocketed, grief,
Form: Rhyme
She Is a Silver Lining
There was no brilliance
in the photo I took.
No inspired flash
as time's translucence
caught up with us...
Filtered past blinds,
early Sun's elegance
haloed her grey cloud curls,
soft blurred the...

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Categories: pocketed, appreciation, daughter, mother,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ice Covered Roads Get the Best of Us
January has pocketed frosted dreams
Firmly tucked away, hidden under her black ice
Her treacherous blizzards torment the foolhardy
Many driving too fast on her hills should know...

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Categories: pocketed, car, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Freedom Fall 8 and the Removal of Ray Bans
“Freedom Fall 8 and the Removal of Ray Bans”



The Dilettante Diaries: New Chapter 

Sometimes it’s necessary 
to 
Lose 
to
Win

Freedom Fall 8 
Sans Rays

A new chapter.
Light,...

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Categories: pocketed, celebration, freedom, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stagnated
S T A G N A T E D

"I'm pregnant."

A snake chill suddenly crawl in his spine when he heard her words. Icy sweats ran...

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Categories: pocketed, character, growing up, relationship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ps: Take Note
P.S.: Take Note
We are met again 
at the crossroads of delusions
reminiscing failed choices 
and broken promises;
here we stand once again 
in the vanity of illusions
reflecting...

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Categories: pocketed, allegory, analogy, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Butti the Tortoise
Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

     ...

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Categories: pocketed, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Pocket Watch
Technological age.
Advancement of advancement,
Digital acceleration unlimited.

Gifted and pocketed,
This watch,
Dull dark silver,
True and tested mechanic,
Short and sturdy chain,
Analogue accuracy.

It fits comfortably in my jeans pocket,
Ages alongside...

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Categories: pocketed, loss, love, time, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Top Dressing
spring stitched the horizon
budding with French knots of red
			and jade and gold
the underpinning of branches
 began to disappear
as the surface danced 
with pointillism

kelly-green cuffed the...

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Categories: pocketed, spring, daffodils,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs