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Best Thump Poems

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Premium Member Heartbeats
Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to...

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Categories: thump, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse



Guardian Angels
Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just...

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Categories: thump, fantasy, love, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Klutz For Hire
I’ve picked it up a hundred times
yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
can lay there on the floor

And stepping out...

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Categories: thump, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angel Bones
Angel Bones

Two Hundred fifteen angels  (Narration by an elder)
each buried in a shallow grave
The monsters said the Angels were savages
that they were there to...

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Categories: thump, abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Another Jewel Sunrise
Pink inks of dawn glow 
through a dissolving fog
lifting botanical shadows
alive with enchanting birds. 
Rustling leaves stir the world awake.

Over the horizon a bustling city...

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Categories: thump, beauty, day, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Animal Court
I relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy

A reader might find my story hard to believe
BUT!
At one time in my...

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Categories: thump, animals, funnytiger,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member See-Saws
What playground does not hold the magic lure
Of see-saws firmly braced upon their stands?
What child resists excitement, felt for sure
In ups and downs: the hard...

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Categories: thump, inspiration, life, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Horsing Around
I’m sick of hearing from old Bill that I’m a whimpish sort of bloke,
Because I don’t care for rodeo’s and can’t relate to outback folk,
That...

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Categories: thump, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Dog
At a point where the old road meets the hill
and runs down the other side
There's an old tin shed that's standing, still
and a grave where...

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Categories: thump, animal, death, dog, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Beyond the Open Door
Beyond The Open Door

She stretches her arms across your abyss,
so that she can covertly open your door.
She cries as she peeks into your eyes,
for you...

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Categories: thump, age, angst, beautiful, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member User Name and Password
"User name" and "password"
That's all you need to know.
Type them in , press "enter"
Then you’re  fine to go.

Sounds quite simple really,
Till your memory starts...

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Categories: thump, computer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fast Food On a Diet
View that cholesterol wad
Sizzling cheeseburger
Hold the veggies, add ketchup
Tape burger to thighs
Hungry heart pulsates
Thump, thump, thump
Stop!
 
 
April 28, 2011
*Entry for Gwendolen’s Fast Food Epulaeryu...

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Categories: thump, angst, foodheart, heart,
Form: Epulaeryu
Herstory, Not History
(for Virginia Woolf)

She wanted to buy some flowers but drowned Herself instead,
drifting along the ebbing flow of time, with warm
water cracking Her slim figure and...

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Categories: thump, art,
Form: Free verse
She Goes Back
She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey


Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop

Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...

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Categories: thump, anger, devotion, hope, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Smoking Gun
“Smoking Gun”


Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn...

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Categories: thump, humanity, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things