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Chalk Line Poems - Poems about Chalk Line


Premium Member Hitchcock
...I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind, independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their......

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Categories: chalk line, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member September Falls
..."My arrangements with destiny weren't arduously demanding or beclouded with nit-picking details, so I merely ask for a day, any day, pick a day, and then for the year, give me a year, pick a ......

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Categories: chalk line, birthday, destiny, dream, happiness,
Form: Acrostic



Bird Black
...Blackbirds singing in jackboots Women freshening and powdering in the Men's room A child is born without square eye's and cell phone permanently attached to it's inner ear Traversing foo......

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Categories: chalk line, slam,
Form: Free verse
Who Done It
...On a clear crisp morning All was quiet and still Suddenly without warning A scream that will make you ill The house lit up like Blackpool And all around was concerned People running like crazy ......

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Categories: chalk line, death, family, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Truth, He Dies
...In Truth, He Dies "Kevin" Drug buy, for one it went good. Drug buy, for one it went bad. You see Kevin, wore high heeled sneakers. You see Kevin, was his junkies' keeper. But one d......

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Categories: chalk line, 12th grade, child, dad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In Truth, He Lies, She Cries
...In Truth, He Lies, She Cries "Kevin" Drug buy, for one it went good. Drug buy, for one it went bad. You see Kevin, wore high heeled sneakers. You see Kevin, was his junkies' keeper. ......

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Categories: chalk line, 12th grade, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
A Chalk Line Mother
...She draws the outline of her past one of society’s outcasts she chalks the mother sadly missed the tears she tries to resist a chalk line mother is all she knows a life full of highs but mostly......

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Categories: chalk line, daughter, mother,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Tea Service Sarcasm
...tea service sarcasm crumbless tongue maids and servants frown with all-nighter tongue twisters the blister of three a.m. the poor professor stumped marbles roll in head, in mouth mirrors a......

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Categories: chalk line, love,
Form: Free verse
Birthday Sonnet
...Birthday Sonnet My love's not passive, shy and free of strife Nor are her eyes soft deep and limpid pools No, in those orbs there burns the fire of life Of value more than any precious jewels ......

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Categories: chalk line, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chalk Line
...Chalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch. How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes do you imagine have been drawn upon th......

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Categories: chalk line, anger, death, grave, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rounding Third
...Rounding third I'm heading home Pants mighty dirty, cleats are worn Knees swollen, bones do ache Just one more game before I break Coach waves me in I trip and fall Scramble back , ......

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Categories: chalk line, baseball, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Things That Boys Do
...Boys do boys BREAKS toys. Knick knack paddy wack. Give. A dog. A bone. Some say the things that boys do are wrong and even more wrong still. Pushing a go cart up a steep steep hill. Wrestling down......

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Categories: chalk line, anger, angst, baseball, basketball,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Father
...ELEGANT STYLE. FINGER NAIL FILE. EVERYTHING in its rightful PLACE. Everyone knew he REIGNED SUPREME. NO CONTENDER. this BIG SPENDER? THEY OBEYED his rules. He wore his SNAKE SKIN. Ankle high BLACK......

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Categories: chalk line, absence, black african american,
Form: Free verse
I Was the One
...There was a time when I was the one standing in that green grass I was the little one running the bases, running fast There was a time when I was the one fielding that ground ball, making the play I......

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Categories: chalk line, caregiving, life, sports, time,
Form: Rhyme

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