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Best Ungracefully Poems

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Premium Member Growing Old Ungracefully
Lord, have mercy! Who is that in the mirror I view?
That can't be me with the gray-haired hue!
Seems only yesterday I was a jaunty thirty-five,
Now,...

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Categories: ungracefully, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme



Find Me In the Lyrics
Shadows seeking solitude
sunlight filters fleeting dream
soft endless kisses
are more real than they seem

Awake but still in the stillness
missing moments long past
through stained glass windows
smiles seldom...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ungracefully, dance, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Unlucky Unhappy Me
Invisible predators steal my soul
taking me to a bowl of stale potato chips
dunking me down beneath the cigarette butts
That were not ever well-hidden in the...

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Categories: ungracefully, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cascade Adventures - Part 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to...

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Categories: ungracefully, adventure, friend, mountains, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and...

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Categories: ungracefully, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence,
Form: Haibun



In a Nutshell
A mess inside out
From head to toe
   Her boat, afloat
But refuses to go

   A dime piece if she tries
But prep, a...

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Categories: ungracefully, me, poetess, writing, ,
Form: Free verse
Tell Me
A hazy sunshine fills the empty room 
The light creating a mixture of 
serene fog and dancing rays 
A figure forms in the haze 
floating...

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Categories: ungracefully, fantasy, imagination, kiss, love,
Form: Imagism
Free Cee Old Black Joe Wouldn'T Like Any Poetry But For Mine
OLD, AS IN OLD BLACK JOE

Like me
Don’t you see?
He was old
With no place to go
Old black Joe
with his old banjo
Old boots
and a very old belt
Old...

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Categories: ungracefully, angst, old, old,
Form: Monorhyme
Poetry Performer
You are angst poetry
          played on the strings
        ...

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Categories: ungracefully, angst, character, guitar, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be Dazzling
~Be Dazzling~

Who wants to grow old?
Shivering alone, in the cold,
Beneath an old oak tree?
Not my bag of tea.
Refusing to age, so ungracefully,

Don shoes, gold,with straps,
A...

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Categories: ungracefully, age, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Dreaming For the Lack of Scheming
Dreaming for the lack of scheming
Wish there was another day.
They all add up for one tomorrow,
That I’d give too much to see today.
Wish I’d known...

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Categories: ungracefully, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Compromise Is Wise and Nice
When two persons severely fight
Using vitriolic language angrily
Our mind is terribly poisoned
As our mood goes feebly astray

The shouts resemble cacophony
A tremor happens in our stomach
Our...

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Categories: ungracefully, anger, bereavement, conflict, heartbroken,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Withered Gray Thing
Going back home is a sad thing
everyone aging ungracefully 
the family dog is long dead
they saved her purple collar
the one with the tiny bell
that's still...

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Categories: ungracefully, age, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stalemate
~~A chess match is an opaque mirror into societal clash
slippery rules and taboos playing upon a checkered past
balcony kings and queens glaring down on the...

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Categories: ungracefully, america, society,
Form: Free verse
The Cello and the Girl
The cello is between her legs,
skirt hiked up
legs ungracefully spread.
sexually inviting.
The cello drums her 
Thrums her darkness
Into blind angels
The cellos voice is her voice
Her body...

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Categories: ungracefully, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs