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Chalky Poems - Poems about Chalky

The Prismatic Self
...I say the word and feign a Freudian slip From between its legs duplicities drip Often doubling as a quip and tasting chalky, just a bit History will record the troubling truth that I never existe......

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Categories: chalky, color, god, introspection, mirror,
Form: Quatrain
Hide and Seek
...This is different Eerie The winds have changed. The colors fade into a lifeless, chalky form, and all life disappears in a uniform fashion, as I stand at its edge, too scared to move. ......

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Categories: chalky, anxiety, depression, emotions, hope,
Form: Lyric



The Revealing
...You see it coming through an opaque mirror, first signs and last winks, a monstrous revealing the marks of a construction worker with no blueprint one who realizes that the edifice is crumbling f......

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Categories: chalky, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
...There come those nights—you know the sort: The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window, Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song th......

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Categories: chalky, love, metaphor, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Scandinavia
...Scandinavia  Finland is the whitest country in the world  I read and according to the article in  the Sunday paper, happy in their whiteness People in Scandinavia tend to be pale-faced Sweden ......

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Categories: chalky, absence, africa, art, beach,
Form: Blank verse



Dunstable Downs
...A hillside of walkers gathering slow blend with the gold medal fields all aglow. Kites finding freedom, flutter and flow as looping Red Kites begin to swoop low. Families with picnics bask in t......

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Categories: chalky, animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Rhyme
This Sceptic Aisle
...I dained that I'd distress the Dutch, Refrain the French with such - and - such. 'Gainst Germans I'd my victory forge, Churchillian chants in Cheddar Gorge. Send Poles packing from our building......

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Categories: chalky, death, divorce, england, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Travels Heavily
...time travels heavily in rousing screech to strangle smiles from mind's untold my waving grimace implored beseech under shadowed cleft of chalky Wold where lapping rays of yellowed gloss and gree......

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Categories: chalky, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Whitestone Hoodoos
...Whitestone Hoodoos Near where I live, just up the hill above the airport, is a place of mystery and wonder, a place wizards might once have dwelled, or young warriors wandered in search......

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Categories: chalky, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Driveway Rainbows
...Soft rain had blurred the lines Softened the edges Frizzed the sharpness Of artistic angst Smiles drooped, fingers grew thinner, somehow reaching out. The eyes caught the raindrops Blinke......

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Categories: chalky, art, children, imagination, summer,
Form: Free verse
Mother
...Chocolate bars full of nougat and peanuts, Sour gummies that get stuck in teeth, Chalky fruit-flavored tablets, Things coated in colorful candy shells, With metallic wrappers I constantly hear c......

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Categories: chalky, addiction, anger, anxiety, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Payload
... "The Payload" The payload came crashing down like rain expelled from the fat belly of a ruinous pregnant cloud bilious with buxom promise it came crashing down ......

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Categories: chalky, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chalky Candy Hearts
...Sitting in the bowl a bit chalky colored story telling candy; Timeless messages sent melt hearts; Romance lives within these hearts, updated verse but still written chalky; Lovers still trade......

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Categories: chalky, candy, emotions, love, valentines
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Winter Storm
...The sun is obscured by mounds of clouds. Cold descends, snow is frozen hard forming ice. Daggers of chill cut through every sinew. Blizzards sweep past, heaping fluffy snow into piles. Monste......

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Categories: chalky, snow, storm, weather, winter,
Form: Imagism
Artists All
...He had long hair once. She wrote alone in her knickers' drinking German wines. He painted dark clouds that never rained. Savvy punk word-painters slam down their ill-tempers with blunt ballpoi......

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Categories: chalky, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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