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Best Wishbone Poems

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Premium Member The Wishbone
break a wishbone
you end up with the small half of the split

it's suppose to be fifty - fifty odds 
still we all know a very...

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Categories: wishbone, money,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: wishbone, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: wishbone, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Dampened Sheets
I am the sultry silence
the wishbone
of your dreams
feel my warm breath
slither down your throat
across your chest
feel my transparent tongue...

We rage the erotic battle
I feel your...

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Categories: wishbone, beauty, love, lust, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jukebox
The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzie Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Aerosmith, The Eagles, War
Dolly Parton, Sandie...

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Categories: wishbone, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Abc. Music Is My First Love
AC/DC, the rockers from down under
Boston, with Tom Scholz on guitar, sweet thunder

Creedence Clearwater, singing Proud Mary
Deep Purple, from the 70's, rocking and hairy

Eagles, easy...

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Categories: wishbone, inspirational, music
Form: ABC
Premium Member Somewhat Injury-Prone
First grade, pelted with eggs
  Second grade, broke both legs
Third grade, fell down the stairs
  Fourth grade, clawed by a bear

Fifth grade, ran...

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Categories: wishbone, growing up, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Thanksgiving Tanka
THANKSGIVING TANKA

first fall snow
what i’ve dreaded
all summer
august   september   and october
just flew right by

mid november snow
thanksgiving just three days away
christmas just a...

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Categories: wishbone, thanksgiving,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member "jingle Bells...Eastwood Tales"
3-3-5-7-7-1

Christmas shop..Till you drop..
Every which way but loose..
For some rawhide, Wishbone fried..
Gil Favor big on flavor..
Some!
 
Jo se Wells…Eastwood Tales..
As I knew he would..
Clint Eastwood,...

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Categories: wishbone, funny
Form: Light Verse
I Wish I May I Wish I Might { Cinquain}
wishbone
                        ...

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Categories: wishbone, devotion, faith, food, imagination,
Form: Cinquain
Scowl From a Fowl
Scowl from a Fowl

Everybody had been saying their blessing
Started to eat turkey filled with dressing
Along with some salad and cutup tomatoes
And my favorite which is...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wishbone, humorous, thanksgiving,
Form: Couplet
Girl of My Dream - Album Title Contest
TIME  WAS peaceful farmers were  happy to reap their corn.
I am a farmers son, it's not my idea of living, not since the...

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Categories: wishbone, dream, girl,
Form: Verse
Form a "v" New Man To the Rear
Wishbone reunion,
Flying south this time of year.
Brings much Thanksgiving....

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Categories: wishbone, animals, holiday, nature
Form: Haiku
Making Wishes
Making Wishes

I take a penny and toss it in the well
Then make a wish and I can’t tell

If I see a shooting star in the...

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Categories: wishbone, lovewife,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Continuance
Image of Free Heart And Love by Pixabay.

Continuance

Climbing waves crept ashore and stole our footsteps
yet prints went aslant, surrendered none to our
unbroken hearts in bottled...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wishbone, endurance, feelings, love,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Book: Shattered Sighs