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Clapped Out Poems - Poems about Clapped Out

Muted Song
...His lips parted, but the notes clung, threaded in silence by invisible keys. The song stayed, in a nest of aches, where wishes fluttered without hope of flight. He hummed, but no one hea......

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Categories: clapped out, grief, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Staying Out of Reach-The Siren’s Story
...Staying Out of Reach-The Siren’s Story She was a fish out of water, only in the metaphorical sense, for the sea was her song and her home, where she played, where she laid her head, and whe......

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Categories: clapped out, moon, sea, song, stars,
Form: Narrative



SOUL MEMORY
... SOUL MEMORY Aligning core below to above Sirius clapped in glee urging group into Time out of Space Pyramid, triangle of my refuge and direction Mercury watched soul circling Sq......

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Categories: clapped out, africa, change, courage, earth,
Form: Free verse
Just Think of It
...I only ride the subway To a doctor or a show. When teaching, that was not the way To work I used to go. Today, though, in the morning rush I had to take a train And I expected all the usuals ......

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Categories: clapped out, appreciation, new york, today,
Form: Rhyme
Absence
...Though the carpet teemed with costumes, toys and figures, laid orderlessly, it was barren. Distant echoes of the battery powered monkey clapped naively through the still air, and its dim LED eyes s......

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Categories: clapped out, divorce, family, father son,
Form: Narrative



Let’s See Who Can Jump the Highest
...Ariana shrugged, taking her turn, trying to beat his rebound. Josh clapped and mocked her, his grimace ringing through the pinball. Josh pulled a satellite and held it to the wind. His eyes, ......

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Categories: clapped out, america, angst, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Killing Field
...Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it dipped, both caught in......

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Categories: clapped out, absence, abuse, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Meat Market
...Jenny leaned against the counter, counting the stitches where Ariana’s arm had been severed, each segment arranged in clinical precision beneath the glass. The overhead lights hummed, sterile and whi......

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Categories: clapped out, america, cute love, dark,
Form: Prose
Premium Member the way it is
...Having been, seen and so known, light of Self in heart full blown, that’s what we focus upon, each life breath ushering dawn. Immanent and transcendent, magnetised, bliss resplendent, we then......

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Categories: clapped out, joy, self, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Run Girl Run
...Run, Girl, Run She was just eleven, small and spry, Her father said, “You’re due, oh my…” A spanking, harsh, the kind she knew, But this time she thought, “Not today, not you.” He called her b......

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Categories: clapped out, child, emotions, family, fear,
Form: Rhyme
4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: clapped out, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: clapped out, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
... “The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown” That man built a house of straw and sticks and the stories that burned within - all consuming the titled prize; ......

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Categories: clapped out, muse,
Form: Narrative
Day trip to no where
...2025.03.10 Victoria Labour public holiday. I was playing the piano at the M Central, For hours, every thing was fine, Until I headed up and saw a line. I then realised, many other people Also......

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Categories: clapped out, happy, music, passion, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Standing Pat
... trumpeting the deportation of Tren de Aragua killers only one democrat stood up, few even clapped if congress isn’t united about that it’s a good thing the president’s not......

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Categories: clapped out, leadership, together,
Form: Rhyme

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