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Best Spavined Poems

Below are the all-time best Spavined poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of spavined poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Dream, a Kiss
darkness threatens
covers all
darkness threatens,
man's downfall

when comes the darkness
goes the joy
when goes the light
goes happy ploy...

...I dreamt a dream
just last night past
of a happy adventure we...

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Categories: spavined, lost lovehappy, house, old,
Form: Rhyme



Malady
The heavy lead blocks
Feeling completely spavined
Ineluctable

Zymotic gulf like nihilism
Hollow skull starved
Explodes wherein of itself

The wells enlarge
And vomit happy
Under sunken stars

As Baryshnikov they
Perform deep under laps
Enveloped...

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Categories: spavined,
Form: Free verse
The Last Cowboy
A nightmare
 after something I'd had, 
a cowboy film,
 the late-night news
 and Cervantes at bedtime.

On a spavined jade
the last of all the cowboys
with lean...

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Categories: spavined, angst, death, dream,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Donkeys
The Blackpool donkeys have given up
they have boarded jumbo jets
to be emotional support animals
for those lesser angels
that protect us wingless fliers. 

They have opted out.
Once...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Far Into the Night
Darkness coiled in the depths of the night.
Where shadows try to hide from your view.
The moon is a mirror reaching for the light.
Rattling on the...

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Categories: spavined, dark, death, drink, fear,
Form: Free verse



The Donkeys
The Blackpool donkeys have given up,
they have boarded jumbo jets
as emotional support animals.

Once they used to plod between
the Blackpool piers
half a mile up, half a...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Beds
Feather-weighted by leagues of slumber
old beds reinventing themselves
as hammocks for the distilling 
of sweat and foam
into an archive of dreams.
 
Sprung mattress’ sag like spavined...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Higgins
Higgins was the worst Math teacher,
and that year I was his worse student.

Higgins had loose blubbery lips.
When he taught long division or algebra
his words were...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Montage
Should I start at the middle
and spiral outward?
I mean I don’t know what I’m doing,
just winging it.
I’m going to need some colorless beads
for the scarecrow...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Brief History of Beds
Old beds reinventing themselves
as hammocks for the distilling
of sweat and foam
into an archive of dreams.

Sprung mattress’ sag like spavined camels,
or twist days and nights together
into...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bedtime Stories
Old beds reinvent themselves,
as archived hammocks for the distilling
of sweat and foam.

Sprung mattress’ sag like spavined camels,
or twist days and nights together
into sheets stuffed with...

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Categories: spavined, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs