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Cardboard Poems - Poems about Cardboard

Cardboard Commanders: A Game of the Generals Poem
The cardboard square, a battlefield unfurled, Two hidden armies in a silent world. Red and blue banners crisp and neatly stacked, A childhood strategy meticulously tracked. The General stood, a symbol bold and bright, Protected fiercely with all our youthful might. Each numbered rank, a secret held so deep, While cautious moves our silent vigil keep. The Scout advanced, a daring little spy, To...

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Categories: cardboard, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Cardboard Castles
Cardboard Castles You came in like thunder— wild, loud, and sharp with flame. Eyes like chaos, smile like fire, never still, and never tame. We shared a bed when we were small, built kingdoms out of pillow forts. You held my hand in quiet dark, and we survived in whispered sorts. But life came fast, and you let go— chose smoke and speed, the chase,...

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Categories: cardboard, heartbroken, heaven, loss, mental
Form: Rhyme



The Boy With The Cardboard Heart
When you have nobody you have somebody and that somebody is yourself. Because you’re all you’ve got. So why need anybody? Anybody being nobody. Nobody being somebody. Somebody being anybody. Somebody. Somebody. Somebody. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Anybody. Anybody. Anybody. Does anybody understand why I feel like a nobody? Even though deep down I know I’m...

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Categories: cardboard, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member City Frozen Cold
Verse 1 His coat is torn his shoes are thin The cold cuts deep beneath his skin Little boy coughs small hands that shake Winter's breath is much to hard To hard to take. Verse 2 Sidewalk echoes silent prayers People pass but no one cares Cardboard kingdom borrowed time Every step is a mount- Mountain climbed. Chorus And the city turns away Like they...

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Categories: cardboard, city, father son, home,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Jigsaw
Just a big box of cardboard shapes Individual pieces defined Goodness, that feels like you and me Slowly, yet surely, is all it takes And in good time, they'll fit, side by side Why then, I've got to ask, why don't we?...

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Categories: cardboard, imagery,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Stealer of Children
The children come to visit once or twice a week and they are fine, I'm sure, but not the ones I seek. Though tall and fair and handsome, not who I'd choose to meet: those grubby-kneed and tousled, the freshly apple-cheeked! Oh, what I'd give...

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Categories: cardboard, children, family, fun, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alone Living In a Cardboard Box Home-
Lofty sorts tenement; Residential entitlements; Homeward bound ; Lost in town, Logistics Irving bound; Summers call; Legitimate hall; Tournament crawl; No mortgage though; No rent termites eating bossa wood; Lying on rough wet papered floor; a homeless man lives alone and a cardboard boxed home! 8/30/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Categories: cardboard, absence, anxiety, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cardboard Box Tumbles
A cardboard box tumbles Down the dark and empty street. Cold gray houses stand watch, No life within, their voices stilled, Their wide eyes vacant. On the porches furniture shrouds Flap and tear in the bitter wind. Dry leaves swirl and whisper. Do these sentinels remember? Do they see a different time? Surely they are waiting For the children’s laughter, The banging screen door, The clatter of skateboards, People...

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Categories: cardboard, house, imagination, seasons,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Cardboard Boats
The battle rages, tree branch swords cardboard boats on Viking Fjords victory within our grasp mother calling “time for your nap” 7/24/2021 Flair and Fun Quatrain Contest...

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Categories: cardboard, childhood, fun, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Home's a Cardboard Box
Weaving, stumbling from one job to another His roadmap reeks of discontinuity And that is why his home's a cardboard box He's squandered each and every opportunity A fancy lady passerby, mercy in her eyes Once offered him her hand, if he could just stay sober But that very winter's night he'd gotten drunk ...

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Categories: cardboard, drink, home, hope, poverty,
Form: Narrative
Old Love Letters In a Cardboard Box
Old love letters in a cardboard box Tender conversations forever frozen Now wrapped with red ribbons Memories of loves gone by And precious moments now forgotten Wispy threads fading like the words that spoke them Their passion waiting to be discovered By others not envisioned, With others now forgotten, Waiting to be reunited Like old love letters in a cardboard box...

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Categories: cardboard, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cardboard Box
A C A R D B O A R D B O X C A N B E T H E B E S T TO ...

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Categories: cardboard, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Shape
Cardboard Boxes
she packed away her memories in cardboard boxes on the shelf they sit layered in dust like years passed she just couldn't get in the holiday mood there was no point in celebrating when all loved ones had long been gone he offered to bring the spirit alive like back then he opened all the boxes carefully adorning the lawn to make it shine just like before the aroma of cookies filled the house as the spirit slowly came upon her again her house the prettiest on the street flickered in holiday flare onlookers came by to gaze upon her lawn he watched them lovingly proud of his...

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Categories: cardboard, christmas, holiday, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cardboard Dreams
Amidst the glisten of toys the confetti of nursery rhymes play dates and toddler pools... children prefer a cardboard box that becomes a boat- a magic flying machine- a train a place to ignite the mind and dream. In short time the train runs low on steam the boat is docked to a flock of demands the magic flying machine sputters in a cloud of...

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Categories: cardboard, age,
Form: Free verse
Cardboard Mattress
I bet your beds comfy, I imagine it smells of flowers and vanilla, Or just the smell of clean, And you have pillows, Big soft voluptuous pillows, And sheets, Clean sheets. I could sleep forever in a bed like that, Literally forever, And I bet you don’t even think about it, Because it’s just a bed to you, And it is, Id probably cry if I could...

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Categories: cardboard, home,
Form: Free verse

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