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Best Suitcases Poems


Living Out of Suitcases
LIVING OUT OF SUITCASES
There was a time when everyone lived out of a suitcase!
Not just the homeless, the free spirits and the spirits of the free!
But everyone did live out of a suitcase.
Today, we are going to pastures green;
they said, they packed their yurt
And off...

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Categories: suitcases, analogy, appreciation, blessing, history,
Form: Narrative
The Unpacked Suitcases
O loving, tender spring,

   full of growing things,

Why is there winter in your eyes?

Your quick visit has hurried 

   your slow, fermenting graces ----

Everywhere, far and wide

   blinding snow!

   blowing endless white!

No more your balmy breeze

 ...

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Categories: suitcases, nature, spring, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Among Suitcases Ii
2:01 pm
Cinnabon, California Pizza, Burger King
Let’s de-militarize the sea floor
So we can once again walk on the waters
Clear and still
2:05 pm

An infant reaches for its mother
Looking at the information monitor
“Passenger… you have a message waiting for you…”
Where are you going?
Where are you really going? And...

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Categories: suitcases, introspection, lifeleaving,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Among Suitcases I
Packed up again,
Cedars and crescents in my carry-on,
A heart and soul in my suitcase…
The mattress on my bed is bare, save for a straw hat
Resting in the middle of it and a bottle of cologne

There are scrapes on the wall
And bits where the paint came...

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Categories: suitcases, introspection, life
Form: Free verse
Rubble In Suitcases
A rubble in a suitcase can be crushed by the might of ten elephants, sixteen rhino, and ladybird in a purple hat. But never a beetle or a silver snake with googly eyes. The monstrous bellowing can alter the voluminous stripes of even the most...

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Categories: suitcases, bible,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry