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Broad Shouldered Poems - Poems about Broad Shouldered

The House on Lake Maggiore
...The House on Lake Maggiore The house on Lake Maggiore was reality, a physical truth, my imagination became the artist. The day has become a deckchair, gently folding itself up as my walk le......

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Categories: broad shouldered, home, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever Basking in a supine position with eyes wide shut while the space heater churns out fast moving molecules of heat solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted by mi......

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Categories: broad shouldered, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lou And Doug
...“Politics is a contact sport” —Steve Chabot It ain't over 'till it's over —Yogi Berra Loug And Doug Pleasant gentlemen both, broad shouldered and tall Good sports who respect the umpire's c......

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Categories: broad shouldered, america, analogy, baseball, celebrity,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Carcass
...In this landscape, lies a nest made of brown brittle leaves, cracked asphalt, and tire flattened filters this creature, stands broad shouldered and stupid with a flat face and eyes open so......

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Categories: broad shouldered, extended metaphor, irony, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Covenstead Goblin
...during the Eves of festival a broad shouldered man came into or near the Layer were Witches were said to dwell He came there to challenge the Goblin who made pots in the cave Witches, Witches ......

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Categories: broad shouldered, dance, film, inspirational, magic,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Women of Color
...These three words immensely tick me off: "Women of color" sounds frightfully pejorative. I get very angry, hot, offended and combative, When I hear these god-awful words that bluff And marginaliz......

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Categories: broad shouldered, appreciation, beauty, care, cute
Form: Rhyme
An Old Cowboy's View
...I stopped at a bar with a big neon star, And looked for a seat in the crowd. I saw a grizzled old gent who looked pretty spent. He sat alone at a table, tall and proud. I judged him four score,......

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Categories: broad shouldered, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Narelle's Peril
...Chained undulations drew lustful admiration Hungry hands grabbed slender agile ankles " Hey, - let her go. A beautiful lady dancing, Appreciate her", handsome stranger asserted Narelle, oce......

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Categories: broad shouldered, abuse, beautiful, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
A Rattling Rhyme
...I saw her in the park 'neath the streetlights dim glow She was holding the hand of a man I don't know She is my wife not his and I'll have none of that But then he was broad shouldered and I've go......

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Categories: broad shouldered, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Call Me Big Toe
...They call me Big Toe he said. He was tall, broad shouldered, handsome. I looked at his shoes. They were enormous, probably to provide for the big toe. I wondered if it was both big toes or jus......

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Categories: broad shouldered, light,
Form: Free verse
9-11
...“9/11” I have seen the Sword of Anguish As it seared its blinding wrath across the faces of millions. I have tasted the salt of their tears Released in painful droplets of anger and fear. ......

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Categories: broad shouldered, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the Lights
...Now that the half-lit vigil of the housewife has ended And the petitions for forgiveness have begun, To what shall we aspire? The worlds are set in motion And the damaged walls were mended, Not ......

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Categories: broad shouldered, encouraging, feelings, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse
A Cowboy From Tulsa
...I once knew a young cowboy in Tulsa. He was broad shouldered with longish blonde hair. He rodeo’d with the best of that breed, And he was champion of our county fair. He was something to see wi......

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Categories: broad shouldered,
Form: Quatrain
***** Theory
...Old Jane Gallagher, she was fine, in that sun shining on an every-day-girl sort of way. Giggling as her checkers clacked and she stacked up her kings, funny how young women enter men’s sen......

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Categories: broad shouldered, confusion, first love, funny
Form: Prose Poetry
Rodeo In Tulsa
...I knew a rodeo champ in Tulsa He was broad shouldered with shiny blonde hair He was a sight to behold with women And knew all of them at our county fair Then one night in the dead of the Winter......

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Categories: broad shouldered,
Form: Rhyme

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