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Devouring(A) Poems - Poems about Devouring(A)

This Is the Life!

...What better than a summer afternoon?
Where else, but on the trail to La Toscana?
Who is it mounts a mens that's not more sana,
devouring a voluptuous Verdi tune?
Which month might one elect, whic...
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Categories: devouring(a), summer,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Memberunintended innuendo

...“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause

though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’s sm...
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Categories: devouring(a), angst, city, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberdisplay of perspective

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banished into exile of freedom
with no chance of extradition
bail collateral and ransom refused
he marvelled at his painless tattoo 

a rotten apple devouring a snake
inked into now sunburnt ...
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Categories: devouring(a), appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberC D E F G H I J K L M N

...Calico Cuban cats devouring a cheese cone
Des Moines deer directing a driven drone
Elmhurst elk writing out an elongated poem
Fresno felines frolicking in feathery sea foam

Gary’s gorillas grab...
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Categories: devouring(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC

Premium Memberpuppy digs

...My puppy Beau has been digging
His face and front paws are black with mud
He looks like he has been devouring a chocolate pie
Clean him up? Are you kidding?
He will go right back and do it again ...
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Categories: devouring(a), dog,
Form: Free verse



MAELSTROM II

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In the maelstrom…

Black inferno machines are one.
In the belly of the maelstrom, they rise,
And nothing is compromised
Black inferno machine
Shadows against the night,
Engines of hunger, ...
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Categories: devouring(a), anger, art, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHome of the Screaming Cupcake

...Barista’s Bakery home of the screaming cupcake
I had to rush inside to see what this meant.
Screaming was happening in two corners of the room.
One boy was devouring a purple cupcake.
It was scre...
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Categories: devouring(a), humor,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberThe Forgotten

...People by the billions 
watching a moon devouring a sun.
Soon after-the devouring is forgotten-
Like a holocaust.
Like the twin towers.
Like a trinity
Like the two hundred
Hostages 
of 
HAMA...
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Categories: devouring(a), freedom,
Form: Free verse

A Solitary Sojourn

...Upon a littered path I trod, alone,
A companion sought in my wanderings.
From afar, a peculiar man appeared,
In an abandoned caravan he resided.

Clad in tattered, sleeveless attire,
His laught...
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Categories: devouring(a), adventure, allusion, imagination, voice,
Form: Narrative

Free To Roam

...When devouring a hot chicken pie
An advertised flat caught my eye,
     I would hazard a guess
     Judging from its address
That the asking price wasn’t too high. 

I collapsed in a state of d...
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Categories: devouring(a), business, conflict, discrimination, hate,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberUse Exclamation Marks Sparingly

...Exclamation marks rile up and excite Mrs. Ex.
She teaches seventh grade English and always suspects….
We are overdoing it when we use even on.
So I throw them in my paragraphs to have some fun.

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Categories: devouring(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberId and Ego

...sucker punch action

blue ringed venomous mollusc -

man eating creature


gives head for kill

pinch of salty consumption -

mouth waters pleasure


octopus sprays ink

under cover o...
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Categories: devouring(a), innocence,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberRattler of Diet Tips and Warnings

...A strange woman blasted into the family reunion
Came in loud and crass; obnoxious. Showing off.
No one knew her.
I was selected to ask her to leave.
Mom! She said.
It was one of my foster childr...
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Categories: devouring(a), humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry

New Dawn

...Destruction roars through the land
Like a fire that can only expand
Fire which never dies
Silencing unheard cries
Raging through the forest today
Devouring a city like prey
Circling and tauntin...
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Categories: devouring(a), conflict, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Do Not Eat Salt

...I do not eat salt, she says haughtily
Making me want to pour a salt shaker into my mouth
I appease myself by devouring a family sized bag of potato chips
Unsalted? Ha! Right!

Chocolate does not...
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Categories: devouring(a), food,
Form: Prose Poetry

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