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Best Threw Up My Hands Poems

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Premium Member Your Hand Reached Down
??Isaiah? ?59:1?-?2? ?NIV??
[1] Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. [2] But your...

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Categories: threw up my hands, faith,
Form: Free verse



Johnny the Fable Sapling
Evening came and the Harvest Moon was about to rise,
little did Johnny know this night would bring him a surprise…

Johnny lived in a mushroom village...

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Categories: threw up my hands, children, silly,
Form: Narrative
The Lizard Man
It spread its grizzly legs on the whitewashed wall
Firmly baked in the early summer heat 
Spitting perspiration dripping from the white crisps ceiling
While I cling...

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Categories: threw up my hands, business, character, community, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Something's Bugging Me
Looking at a tiny ant, I thought,
"Shall I kill thee or shall I not?"

When a mosquito my hand did bite,
I hit out at it in...

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Categories: threw up my hands, fun, insect,
Form: Rhyme
War Is Kind
War Is Kind


Steve L. Siegel


10/16/2015


~+~


Do not cry, maiden, for war is kind,


Because the lover threw his wild hands towards the sky.


Excited like a steed he...

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Categories: threw up my hands, allusion, fear, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse



Settling Old Grudges, Part Iii
...They sent a copy of an old tin-type,
a picture of Milton and his bride,
one look at it and I knew the whole truth,
Small Doe in...

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Categories: threw up my hands, community, conflict, family, father
Form: Narrative
Frankly, My Dear
Frankly, My Dear

Oh, yes the saga of scarlet O’Hara
She was a spoiled little twit
She never had a lick of sense
No not even a little bit

She...

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Categories: threw up my hands, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Raising the Girl Right, Part Ii
She frowned at him, still dressed in his skins,
then cast her gaze upon sweet Nell.
“Why do you bring a savage with you?
Long, lost, little brother,...

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Categories: threw up my hands, discrimination, family, growing up,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Lip Runners
Three mischief makers,
Larry, Lester and Lew,
slipped some wriggly white mice,
inside of their mothers' shoes.

Three screaming mothers,
threw up their hands and ran.
"We're in trouble," screamed Lester,
"Does...

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Categories: threw up my hands, childhood, humor,
Form: Rhyme
John Stark's Glory, Part Ii
...Baum’s men were caught in a hot cross-fire,
many quickly were sent to the grave,
their Indian allies wisely pulled out,
seeing no victory to be had that...

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Categories: threw up my hands, america, conflict, freedom, hero,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Universe, Narrowed Down To New York
He was a bit overawed
   his topic, too broad
A speech on 'The Universe'
   ought not to be terse

So he narrowed it...

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Categories: threw up my hands, city, food, humorous, universe,
Form: Light Verse
The Steady Hand
I sometimes wonder where did it all go,
the clarity and fire of ten long years ago.
When all was a passion, when all seemed unfurled,
and nothing...

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Categories: threw up my hands, age, change, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
The Black River Damnation
At the place, been the ruins imperial,
In the ominous midnight we`re lost-
Not belongings, but some immaterial.
Been so long, broken straight — it`s a trust.

Searing beams...

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Categories: threw up my hands, conflict, farewell, hate, hurt,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Tornado
Look up in the sky! Such a frightening sight! the winds are a churning in horizontal flight!

It started with hail slamming down to the ground,...

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Categories: threw up my hands, angst, death, faith, fear,
Form: I do not know?
Two Women
Two Women

I looked into a window and saw two women whose hopes had been ripped away 
from them.
And they lost all natural beauty,
And a man...

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Categories: threw up my hands, faith, lost, hope, lost,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things