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Cheesecloth Poems - Poems about Cheesecloth


The Mother of Crumbs
...i was making a scoop with one hand with the other palm wide open i collected them while they were silent put together looking like the old ladies from my neighborhood the silence from them ......

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Categories: cheesecloth, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Gardner's Bees
...School holidays were testing times for Mum’s with things we done, when us kids had idle time to chase the values of new fun. We’d trained our dogs, built bushland huts, chased rabbits; camped at ni......

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Categories: cheesecloth, growing up, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Is How the Dream Goes
...This is How the Dream Goes David J Walker This is how the dream goes when I awaken to A cheesecloth cover/filter of borrowed light Colors melding into a blur of fading memory A second sight ......

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Categories: cheesecloth, allegory, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Cheesecloth
...I cannot find my cheesecloth; where did my cheesecloth go? Where is it at this moment? I would dearly like to know. It isn't in the shoe shine kit where oft times I would tuck it, Nor in t......

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Categories: cheesecloth, absence, angst, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Vintage Cheese
...My eyes scan over the table. My taste buds begin to perspire. There’s so much food here on offer, so I wonder what I’ll desire. There are some beautiful salads. There’s carrot, corn and green......

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Categories: cheesecloth, food,
Form: Rhyme



Crack In the Stove
...Crack In The Stove Listen to the pine splits crack in the stove clouds down our roof like burnt pine, milk The smell of come in the shack A breeze on the wall from boiling tomatoes A baby s......

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Categories: cheesecloth, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Only the Thespian Can Do This One
...often she'd stay the weekend. I'd give her these turnovers. She'd reject them at first by saying" yuk, you eat pig ears"! but one day she took one and ate it. She request them every easter as part of......

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Categories: cheesecloth, celebration, desire, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member 1968
...1968 Beaten on the school yard Cursed on the bus Not all the kids hated whites, The few left in the hood. Haters sat at dinner tables Hearing the call to “justice.” Just like us. Nine – n......

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Categories: cheesecloth, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Straight From the Deck
...The light in the night falls slowly upon weathered decks We have placed the dead man on a plank and wrapped him in cheesecloth The rain stops and starts It doesn’t seem to care that he is dead Ca......

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Categories: cheesecloth, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
Poetic
...sitting in the corner of a pub I write vows and eulogies I speak of the dead visiting the departed speaking of love waxing of life on the breath of a baby I take minutes of hours I ......

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Categories: cheesecloth, death, imagination, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Tonite
... (this brownarmed girl will sleep with goodman) testing the white waters at lunch she in a blushless cheesecloth frock chaperoned by one vased fuchsia forget me not coyly sipping ......

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Categories: cheesecloth, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Curvature Purrs
... The breeze caresses Through the light cheesecloth attire Her curvature purrs http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/love-10.php......

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Categories: cheesecloth, love
Form: Senryu
Egyptian Burials
...Earthenware, Gently coated with 24 karats, Lungs, innards, entrails, liver, The heart left untouched, Untainted, Egyptian burials, Wrapped in cheesecloth.......

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Categories: cheesecloth, adventure, death, history, people,
Form: Free verse
Migration of the Monarchs
...drowsy cricket songs call orange-black wings to rest on yellow ragweed hunting with broomsticks bent coat hangers and cheesecloth we chase summer dreams......

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Categories: cheesecloth, childhood,
Form: Senryu

Book: Reflection on the Important Things