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Best Whittle Down Poems

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My Childhood Christmas
The folded corners and wrinkled pages
of catalogs that were tattered and ripped
From the first of October until late in December
we drooled,
we fawned,
we lusted, 
we swooned...

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Categories: whittle down, christmas, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Whittled Down
Purposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten...

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Categories: whittle down, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Marketability
to be a single woman in
america & aging to boot,
one must have breasts that sing to
the air (that never fall, that never
sag, that never do...

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Categories: whittle down, life, woman, dream, america,
Form: Free verse
Breathless
I consume twisted winds from your soul,
To retrieve cruel love from aching hole,
I accept poisoned and twisted past,
Invoking true love that forever lasts.
.
As we have...

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© Pj Bayliss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whittle down, love, romance, sexy,
Form: Free verse
The Gods Are Not Blind
You dig a tunnel and blind it with velvelt
You throw a rose on the velvelt and welcome me to the throne
What do you call my...

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Categories: whittle down, betrayal,
Form: Triolet



Why I Need a Man When I Am Too Much In a Lady-Like Skin
Why I need a man when I am too much in a lady-like skin ?
 
There are hundreds of reasons, there must be. 
The first...

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Categories: whittle down, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
I Got a Gat
I got a gat
that's badder than yours
My rat-a-tat-tat
makes a whole lot of noise
My metal numbers,
whether big or small,
can outperform yours
in the streets or at the...

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Categories: whittle down, allusion, humor, humorous, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whenever Windstorms Vaunt
Whenever windstorms vaunt majestic force,
the elements of earth revise their face,
a flowing stream may even change its course
or yeasting agents alter claimant space.

Whenever windstorms vaunt...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whittle down, dark, storm, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Passion

Passion

Passion can be very good,
But it is misunderstood.
“Passion” comes from the word for “suffering,”
So, in a sense, without buffering:

It can give, but it too takes,
For...

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Categories: whittle down, passionlife, heart, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Empire of the Sun
He has seen the bones of me
Whittle down 
Into grains of lost sand

Has seen the heart of me
Collapse with the weight of our love
And still...

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© Jo Hayton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whittle down, loveme,
Form: Rhyme
Shiny
Devices pull at my trigger
coaxing with memory vacant
to urge a splurge from me
without regret, without vigor,
an ageless chant that can't

rise to the level of ethics
or...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whittle down, depression
Form: Lyric
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 29
Cries of beast and man intertwine,
mortals lamenting what has been done,
this night is filled with sorrow,
forever horrific scenes pressed into the mind.
From this sorrow, can...

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Categories: whittle down, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Infusing Deceit
Hefty doctrines shape the flesh
with centuries of arrogance from
the thieving classes until every
brand wields potential to kill off
multitudes of souls asleep, yet
no longer dreaming of...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whittle down, health, losslife,
Form: Free verse
Whittling
The time has finally come, at last,
To start to whittle down the past.
I comb the closets and each drawer
For things I don’t wear anymore.

My tennis...

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Categories: whittle down, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Read Em and Weep
READ "EM AND WEEP
I don't like to write long poems, otherwise I would be here all dayMy pencil would whittle down and all my pages...

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Categories: whittle down, humorous, poetry,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs