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Best Slaps Poems

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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: slaps, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love Notes In a Bottle
Love Notes in a Bottle

It came as a last meandering thought
How could I know?
Maybe a thousand years from now
On a far away shore
Would exist a...

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Categories: slaps, future, history, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Breeze
The sweet breeze through the window
asks nothing as unseen birds call.
It asks nothing of the sun
as it sweeps across yards,
yet it whispers to waking dreams.
My...

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Categories: slaps, bird, good morning, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Great Big Unseen Pointed Finger
The difference in saying you,
a great big unseen pointed finger, or we.
I didn’t know. Some figurines
wave while others scrutinize with wizened eyes.
The analytic panics, hairs...

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Categories: slaps, god, imagery, perspective, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member What Annoys Me
What Annoys Me.

         The Wedding of Rubbish and Nonsense.

Dearest readers; Please stand, for the big day has...

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Categories: slaps, betrayal,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Eddy
I try to see 
back before 
to who Eddy once was
just barely before when
the bending began
Eddy was after all
a cute child 
wide eyed
hugging kissing and...

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Categories: slaps, angst, cute,
Form: Alliteration
The Old Man of Merces1
The Old man of Merces  

His wrinkled face bearing slaps of time
His eyes barren like a desert starved of rain
Glittering they must be during...

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Categories: slaps, allegory, caregiving, depression, lifeold,
Form: Rhyme
Colorless, Naked and Numb
this cooler air seems to mottle the trees
spinning leaves like my thoughts in winded dance
befalling trails of tears on crimson breeze
as they fall grounded beneath...

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Categories: slaps, autumn, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Politicians
When one slaps your back,
He tries to help you swallow,
What he just told you....

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaps, people, political,
Form: Senryu
Crossed Me At the Borderline, Just In Time
-------------------------------------- ~*note: done in fun and aimed at no one~  



try and seed my name you'll concede to shame
no use in calling names to...

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Categories: slaps, anti bullying, assonance, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Polly
A nobody 
Scared by the sound of his own voice
Following the girl home from school
In his mind this is normal
Stalking girls
He grabs her jacket
Pulling her...

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Categories: slaps, absence, abuse, addiction, angel,
Form: Lyric
Death, the Howling Wind
Death, the howling, moaning wind
The dying can't ignore--
It scratches at the window pane
And slaps the shudder door.

Then cruelly taps upon the roof
With incessant, mocking strain--
And...

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Categories: slaps, death,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Remembrance In Poetry
There’s a deathly silence
in the aging night of the living,
a rasp of breath sneaks
out across the candid moor,
like the wail that fails
the carousel of life!
The...

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Categories: slaps, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smart and Final Prose
Daylight fades, a city pulsates, and traffic is reflected in store windows.  
Hurrying headlights come out of the darkness. 
They crisscross like dueling knights....

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Categories: slaps, peoplepeople, red, city, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Attribute of the Strong, Not For the Weak-W
To err is human, to persist is the devil’s way
God forgives us, so some act in a godlike way 
Though seems difficult, but a good...

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Categories: slaps, cancer, introspection,
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Shattered Sighs