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Burrs Poems - Poems about Burrs

Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
... I sailed an olive boat into the center of the sea alone to find a cure for my loose heart not the spring-back type, noble with elasticity but leap-forward lecher-wild binding to any skirt......

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Categories: burrs, conflict, irony, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Undergrowth with Two Figures - Van Gogh
...I have the rhythm of a winding road how do I consign myself to being confined rows of poplar pillars prop the rendezvous canopy beneath we meet —I self-cajole on ooh-la-la afternoon yellow ey......

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Categories: burrs, angst, conflict, endurance, engagement,
Form: Free verse



Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze. Please rescue us from this godforsaken place veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress. Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction woke......

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Categories: burrs, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anywhere But Here
...Serpents slither here. Scorpions hide beneath our bed spreads. Spiders, bugs, sticks, ants, and centipedes occupy our beds. We have coasts. But what use of these? They burn with sultry heat. Pir......

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Categories: burrs, evil, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Judge
... They see me, but not really. A glance. A smirk. A whisper— "Look at her." And that’s all it takes. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. Truth isn’t the point. The point is shar......

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Categories: burrs, for teens, high school,
Form: Free verse



Wounded Sigh
...Your words burped toxins. Like water, I quenched my thirst. A portion too hexed to gulp, I choked in travesty of devotion. My favourite promises are broken ones. My solace, found in empty wo......

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Categories: burrs, angst, black love, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let Go
...Notice how the birds sing long after we listen. We oft’ are engulfed with our trampoline thoughts. With gossiping beaks, they chirp and they flap. We mimic their tweets, in our minds, as we beat......

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Categories: burrs, bird, metaphor,
Form: Verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
...I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence The following crafted approximately midway into the administration of forty fifth president, whose crass, gutsy, lewd, repulsive yawping......

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Categories: burrs, america, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Horse Sense O Man Ye Have Little
...There are horses for the courses, We know, and there are race horses, What we know’s too little, Horse bets on no people, He knows with men all sense ceases! _____________________________ Limer......

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Categories: burrs, horse, humor,
Form: Limerick
Tell the Teacher
...Read these words, no Not ‘these’ words, read the words that are laid to rest under a thorny bush. See how they emerge to eat the spikes and burrs become this life of yours? Tell the teach......

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Categories: burrs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grotesque Gimply Green Eyed Witch
...Grotesque Gimply the Green Eyed Witch Was trying to rake her hair without a twitch. Tangled burrs and fleas made her skull itch. We watched in silence, myself and Fitch. Fitch is the cat with w......

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Categories: burrs, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Australia Day 2022
...Another Australia Day has dawned again The question s why can’t we all be friends A flag flies over us Including the Union Jack makes a fuss We are here now and will remain The years and wars ......

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Categories: burrs, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Blood On the Brooch
...Most of the time flowers will do. Those gentlest of ambassadors commissioned to disarm the caustic ego. Trim burrs from misunderstandings. Temper the burn of good intention gone awry... To most ......

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Categories: burrs, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weeds By Nickname Cursed
...Dear herb, shrub, vine and bush if you be deemed unwanted or a pest, your name is cursed to be unspoken, or twisted into a foul nickname scourge. To graziers you are Paterson's Curse To beekeep......

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Categories: burrs, garden,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Care For Snakes
...I don't care for snakes They hiss and bluff me I'm not really sure Is he friend or foe Cats, I really take Though cats don't give she any return purr any loves warm glow Steps away not f......

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Categories: burrs, animal, cat, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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