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Concertina Poems - Poems about Concertina

Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon......

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Categories: concertina, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
That Squeeze Box
...The Friday that is here today was here yesterday, of course. That's what getting older seems to be, to do: today was yesterday was the day before and before. It's my weekly washday today - w......

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Categories: concertina, allusion, anxiety, time, today,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beloved Birthday Memories
... The aroma of mellow gardenias, the dance of a ballerina, the sound of an Italian concertina Purple, shaded, toe shoes that glide across a stage with footlights and an applause of ......

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Categories: concertina, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Kafkaesque
...I ponder whose hands concertina time. Sometimes my brain wakes up 40 years younger for a few moments I am vital, perfectly formed and a smile for every eye. Other times though, I arrive in the wo......

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Categories: concertina, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member State Fair
...Summer sky sparkles under huge bursts of light Spiraling rockets and rainbows of color delight Kiddie rides and merry-go-rounds spinning around While roller coasters lift one high off ......

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Categories: concertina, celebration, cheer up, childhood,
Form: Couplet



A Small Bookshop
...Ranks of glossy printed editions squeezed into a concertina of space. The acrylic smell of new books is cordite to my nose. Then in softer contrast, the musky ambiance of the old and well-thum......

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Categories: concertina, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fingerdance Potd
... FINGERDANCE I remember finger dancing as a young ballerina. Why I could, leap, twirl, fly in the air to the sound of an orchestra or even a concertina! As......

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Categories: concertina, dance, girl, imagery, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Prototypes
...I did not plan to be a single cell amoeba or this me, a conglomerate jigsaw of a being a million times removed from primordial goo. I was peacefully inanimate at times endowed only with a little ......

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Categories: concertina, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nativity
...Some are born by paupers Their struggle starts at infancy; With dried-up bottoms And washed-out concertina ribs, Yet their rust-colored teeth find solace On their mother’s shriveled breasts. ......

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Categories: concertina, birth, childhood, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse
Circus of Live
...The soul as resident under the celestial tent, where the pleasure spectator benches rent. Flowered horses with petite ballerina, cute monkeys with funny hats playing the concertina. Jumping tide......

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Categories: concertina, 12th grade, endurance, perspective,
Form: Ballade
Bookshop
...The ‘classics’ section is not small. Ranks of tightly printed editions squeeze a concertina of time. The glossy acrylic smell of new books is cordite to my nose, I dodge a graphic array of explo......

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Categories: concertina, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Space Polka
...Space Polka We heard there was a dance at the Planet Pulaski this Saturday night, called for a space cab with delight. The domed community center was hopping, Stanislaus Brodsky Band played ......

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Categories: concertina, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Udelnaya Market 6:30 Pm
...UDELNAYA MARKET 6:30 PM 6 30 and not yet all gone - Shadows lengthening, Suns light in eyes, still Difficult to see the end . Flowers of the day now dried petals, Empty boxes, blowing ......

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Categories: concertina, flower, introspection, life, sunset,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Se Promener
...SE PROMENER Down by the River Seine, where light abounds come take a walk with me, a sheer delight, just listen to the distant flowing sounds of Paris coming to another night; to hear a distan......

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Categories: concertina, blessing, cheer up, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The River of No Return
...THE RIVER OF NO RETURN The Rue St. Germain is alone and still though cool is the night with a summer chill the fog from the Seine comes right up the hill and street lamps dance the whole night......

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Categories: concertina, absence, beauty, destiny, farewell,
Form: Epitaph

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