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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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Matthew Herfurth
Categories:
clapped out,
humor,
Form:
Free verse
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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Paul Willason
Categories:
clapped out,
history, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
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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Caren Krutsinger
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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Eric Ashford
Categories:
clapped out,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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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Lady Labyrinth
Categories:
clapped out,
dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
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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Kai Michael Neumann
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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Louis Brown
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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Offor Ujunwa
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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Paul Curtis
Categories:
clapped out,
funny
Form:
I do not know?