Best Unclogged Poems
...MY FATHER'S GENTLE HANDS
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I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-da......
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Categories:
unclogged, 12th grade, dad, father,
Form:
Haibun
...There are those moments…..
spontaneous expressions
of life
finding expression
through the eyes
…the voice
…the hands
…the pen
a focus
…centering in the b......
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Categories:
unclogged, children,
Form:
Free verse
...I fell this morning-
Stumbled over fear, surrender my bitter dressings
Kissing the distance of sanity
Defying gravity
Levitating toward the inevitable
Plunging into the comfort of solace fe......
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Categories:
unclogged, anxiety, courage, crush, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Nine
“Sire!” cried a lame yea-sayer: “I know this mad hookah addict!”
“Then drag him here by the scruff of neck be it hook or by trick!
But first when......
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Categories:
unclogged, allegory,
Form:
Rubaiyat
...Across an azure sky
i trailed lonely as clouds
Lost and broken
you unlocked my handcuffs
you are the love,you are the lover
In the ambiguity of reverberence and sonority
my soul was asleep
......
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Categories:
unclogged, allusion, america, animal, anti
Form:
Free verse
...The penultimate decadal chronicle so very exciting
The twentieth century wrote through the eighties
My young mind marveled at how the pages were turning
Frayed memory still preserves them as a li......
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Categories:
unclogged, memory, time, world,
Form:
Rhyme
...I'm truly sorry for those that died.
From that cheeky little FauchXI virus...
The millions that lost jobs.
and those demonized for deflecting
the virgin big pharma prick-
I'm embarrassed to s......
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Categories:
unclogged, truth,
Form:
Free verse
..."The streams are my veins."
Can you hear the drum beats of fear as do I?
Does the mere sound of these fears make you want to CRY?
You don't want to believe it, and hope it's all a 'Big LIE'.
......
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Categories:
unclogged, change, christian, world,
Form:
Rhyme
...Things have changed worldwide today, but not the joy
Of spring. The sounds I heard when yet a child
Of cataracts tumbling with joy, the air rinsed of alloy
And magic in all things pastoral, all th......
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Categories:
unclogged, nature, grandchild,
Form:
Quatrain
...I believe in Love.
I BELIEVE in Love.
My faith rests assured.
Not on fabled promises, or
Test tube guesses.
My heart has felt the Motive Force.
My eyes have seen the good resurrect.
Love per......
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Categories:
unclogged, love,
Form:
Free verse
...Trump the Pump Truck Driver
By Franklin Price
11/09/2019
Trump is who we see he is, doesn't practice to deceive
Won the plumbing job, three years ago, was elected to receive
All the piled up d......
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Categories:
unclogged, america, anger, corruption, political,
Form:
Couplet
...#S.ONG
A.ND
M.OTION
Sam Swam Swooshing and Pushing Further in the Swamp...
Is it Easier to Swim in a Muddled Puddle of Murky Meanderings; Submerged and Immersed in Mental Entangled Misund......
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Categories:
unclogged, anxiety, change, confidence, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
...This bodily form here
Is where love spears
We choose separation
Then yearn for union
Thus creating a longing
To fill what is lacking
This game of pretence
Easy if played in innocence
Howev......
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Categories:
unclogged, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
...The sweat beads sparkle on her fair forehead
She is selling fish in her black sari
A little money for her daily bread
In the black slum she lives in a shanty
While she cleans and slices into pi......
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Categories:
unclogged, beauty, image, inspiration, life,
Form:
Sonnet
...in the silence of
your early fantasy dawn
breezy dreams of purple peach
i am eating you
your wavering thoughts indecision
onerous shadows of withering souls
i am eating
hidden flowers
of your......
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Categories:
unclogged, romance,
Form: