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Close Shave
Before a misty morning mirror above a half-filled basin such cold water was I braving simply to lave my face in but the coldest cut of all and it only hurts when I smile I severely slit myself while I was busy shaving but did my frozen fingers fumble or was it just a rusty razor which sorely needs replacement that figured in my defacement as there...

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Categories: close shave, fun, humorous, me, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Close Shave
Breaking points are reached when you are gliding just is as smooth as silk. Acceptable risks go rogue, easy-street gets bumpy; beware then for there are gopher holes, shoals of piranha appear in rain puddles, then sleeping moles awaken in your head and they don't like smooth....

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Categories: close shave, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Close Shave Then Away Would Slave
Close Shave Then Away Would Slave had been a close shave and then away we would slave all our money slave Jim Horn...

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Categories: close shave, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
A Close Shave
Should a Sheik seek a shave Who'd shave a Sheik, Sheik shavers should surely So Sheik shavers Sheiks seek. Entry for Twist my Tongue Poetry Contest Sponsored by Nina Parmenter 17/1/2020. Placed 3rd....

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Categories: close shave, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Close Shave
Sand slipped away through an hour glass timer Oblivious to a bottle neck of irrevocable pain Next to a tube of toothpaste and a cake of soap It rested under a broken mirror in the washroom Not far from 4 ply loo role waiting for meaning Tim needed a brave shave and brazen reflection Reached for the cabinet holding razor and...

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Categories: close shave, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Close Shave
Homeless man shaved By cop saved...

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Categories: close shave, appreciation, blue, poetry, recovery
Form: Couplet
Close Shave With Wave In Cave
Close Shave With Wave In Cave Were cautiously surfing in a cave, When there had been a big wave; While inside, We could hide; With sides of wall had close shave. Jim Horn...

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Categories: close shave, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Close Shave
I learnt a lesson well today on how good hygiene works, and how sometimes it doesn’t pay, to gain professional perks. It was Mick the barber’s little lurk that put up this dreadful case … I’ll never trust another soul when shaving whiskers off me face. The local footy club had organized a social ‘do’, on this Friday night that...

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Categories: close shave, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Murphy's Close Shave With Occam's Razor
Half a red beard lays on the floor ...

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Categories: close shave, christian, irony, mystery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Close Shave
The lawn awaits the mower’s blade The blade of dullest steel is made The smoke of petrol fumes abound As the mower is pushed around The grass beard trimmed of morning shade...

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Categories: close shave, garden, green, nature,
Form: Quintilla
The Close Shave
“That was a close one,” he said to me as I walked into his room. I looked around for whatever he might have thought was a close one. “What dad? What was a close one?” Nothing, no response. “How was your day today?” Blink, blink, blink. “What did you eat for breakfast?” Sometimes talking about food get’s him conversational. His eyes gained...

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Categories: close shave, caregiving, father, food, funny,
Form: Free verse
Prickly Pete's Close Shave
Ol’ Pete he had a new gal friend that he wanted to prank— His idear was to shoot her silhouette like Buckskin Frank! It was Frank Leslie that first shot holes all around his girl— So Pete thought he’d do it too or at least give it a whirl! But what he did not count on was the mettle...

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Categories: close shave, cowboy-western, funny, life, lost
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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