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Checkered Poems - Poems about Checkered

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Premium Member Such an Inspiration--Grandma Moses
... Young Anna* worked with yarn and loved a quilting bee, but someday she’d do works that all the world would see. Her genius flourished late in life and freely flowed, for not by man but nature ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, art,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member welcome to the fifties diner
...Welcome to the fifty’s diner Where there are chrome stools Black, red and white leather seats A checkered floor Everything matches A soda machine is standing ready The chef is heating up the ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Under the Devils Moon
...He came to her under the light of the moon promising her riches & plenty His devilish smile enchanted her to the point of elation but she didn't understand what it took to be his Soon she'd rea......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, imagery, imagination, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I view Father's view you see me I see you-
...I view Father's view you see me I see you the view outside his clouded eyes back drop summer green leaves the clothes he wears straw-hat brim around bill shadow I vi......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, how
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Can-Can
... “what inspires you to write such indiscriminate indiscretions like that?” he speaks to himself and thinks not long without thinking, unnaturally he feels, something, so he promptly ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Hands Bid Goodbye
...An untouched cup of coffee sleeps on the café table. I want to take hold of your hands, hands now clasped upon a checkered tablecloth. We both know it's over, but no lies please. being dum......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Great Catching Away part ten
..."Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming, He's coming back again today." Grace kept on her rhythmic jump roping and singing her little ditty. She used to sing these words instead, "Jesus is coming, Jesus ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Bird With a Checkered Past
...I met a quirky bird the other day, Who has a checkered past, they say. Many a nest she left in shambles, As she continues her rambles. Takes what she needs, Leaves others to bleed. ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, 12th grade, betrayal, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Uterus Fruits
... First picked Summertime cherry Dew glimmer marble blood clot Taut fruit platter embitters sweating cheese Liver pate shivers jiggle jelly Nep......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, cute, loss,
Form: Verse
Popping Olives
...He plucks a pear from the tree and tosses it my way. Hands fumble, but nails sink into flesh to maintain a solid grip. He doesn't see me slip. Examine the freshness of the fruit before sinking teeth ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, psychological, relationship,
Form: Prose
There Is a Rumor That In Eden
...there is a rumor that in Eden when God created woman the heavenly hosts all exclaimed woe unto man Adam lost in the marvel of what he beheld repeated what he heard, although abbreviated mumble......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, allusion, devotion, imagination, inspirational
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Character References
...Character References By Mark D. Stucky If I applied for new employment, should I write down for my references my malicious manager who mistreats workers, my onetime tea......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, character, god, jobs, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clown Car
...Twisting turning Engine burning Never learning To slow it down Fires stoking Tires smoking Ever joking A common clown Racing master Always faster Near disaster The best in town Lo......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, car, race,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Kente
...Colored checkered patterns Dashing vibrant colors Hand woven cloth strips Dazzling geometric shapes. Characterized weft designs Vivid eye appealing texture Ghana’s national cloth Royals favo......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, africa, art, beauty, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Near Death Melancholy
...A WISTFUL look on once a jolly face You can feel the pain in her grimace Her WITHDRAWN heart in SHROUD of GRIM Seems to dim her muffled scream A chronic state of MELANCHOLY Seems to worsen......Read the rest...
Categories: checkered, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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