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Clapped Out Poems - Poems about Clapped Out


By 12
...By 12 By 12 I was fully grown. My height was the envy of the short arses in my classes. I wasn’t a porker like some ... I was spared fat jokes. My level of pituitary activity was, w......

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Categories: clapped out, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Town
...I can remember passing through this town as a child, stopping for a pie on our way north. Now it’s bypassed – barely more than a clot lodged in the spidery veins of a map. Most of the houses ......

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Categories: clapped out, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Who Which Why
...Who decided I would live this life petite? Who wanted me to act female sweet? Who decided to kill animals for meat? What would my grandpa think of a tweet? Who figured out how to grind up wheat......

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Categories: clapped out, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Keys For the Newish Year
...Kitchen catastrophes, kitty got into the closet the cat has a key cold cuts today no time to cross the equator in a clapped-out cart. New Year beer hob-knobbing with the cousins from down und......

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Categories: clapped out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange Ways, Here We Come
... “Strange Ways, Here We Come” the devil’s advocate came waltzing through my doors “I had no choice” the supercilious harbinger said, “to intervene, to parlay awa......

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Categories: clapped out, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Change of Frequency
...Can’t you hear the silent trickle rusting on the bell of liberation shouting into the wind of nascent freedom Its trick or treat frosted or icing on the caked in disguise It sounds action o......

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Categories: clapped out, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Jungle Love
...I keep my left foot in the war zone I keep my right foot in the jungle, While I scramble for my cheerios[ 0's } I do it bundle by bundle, It's the year of gettin' yo' money right and my pocket......

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Categories: clapped out, environment, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Paint My Love
...Blank board we together saw The board as colourless as a drop of rain Weightless but with embodiment of hope We yearned for colour and brush but didn’t see Seeing the potential in the blank board......

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Categories: clapped out, art, loveblue, love,
Form: I do not know?
Taken Its Toll
...I don’t have a bell to ring Someone’s taken my dingaling I don’t know what’s wrong Someone has taken my dong I don’t know why the bloody hell I can’t seem to ring my bell I know the batte......

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Categories: clapped out, funny
Form: I do not know?

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