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Distractedly Poems - Poems about Distractedly

Premium Member Retirement and Bird
...A bird in a button-down shirt and a vest joined me for coffee, and sadly confessed,  pecking distractedly at a cinnamon roll, his manner affectingly droll. What he said, as I sat on my park ben......

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Categories: distractedly, bird, retirement, silly, work,
Form: Rhyme
First Day
...I wonder who’s in charge of our section. The anxiety about who will lead me, brings on a cold sweat. Her sweater is tight. I turtle-neck, over my sanitized cubical. Small breasts, tiny and ......

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Categories: distractedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Popping off
...This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it......

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Categories: distractedly, christmas, grandmother, humor, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Athens
...We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little ‘heat domes’......

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Categories: distractedly, humor, mom, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No
...Most of the girls (Anna, Sophy, Sunny, Bili, Leong and Lisa) are in the kitchen eating breakfast. “Where’s Anais?” Sunny asks, spooning some eggs onto her plate and taking 4 strips of bacon. “She’......

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Categories: distractedly, boyfriend, conflict, friendship, social,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Robbery
...I visit you in dreams, and my visit is always unexpected. I’m always excited and more than a little apprehensive. . In dream variations, your reactions shuffle like poker cards - you’re surp......

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Categories: distractedly, 11th grade, angst, dream,
Form: Free verse
Trip To Madras
...Stepping down from the AC coach on to the railway platform A hot wave of salty moist air drenches me On my customary visit to this city I'm tethered to by my memories.. She coyly calls hersel......

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Categories: distractedly, childhood, city, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beside Myself
...Jumbled and distractedly jarred, I awoke beside myself like a wraith, a spectator to my primal confusion, hamstrung by the goddess Chaos, psychotic and frightfully broken. Drifting through scr......

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Categories: distractedly, allusion, imagery, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove
...It occasionally occurs to me, as I distractedly remove my right dominant Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove, after yet another young adult diaper change, Perhaps getting lovingly laid by a lifeti......

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Categories: distractedly, care, caregiving, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Unique
...She is unique It’s her eyes And though I know it’s just a painting They speak to me She’s alive. It’s her hair That immaculate orange-red coloring It’s unnatural The mark of her unique R......

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Categories: distractedly, allusion, appreciation, art, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Realer World
...When I'm preparing my garden for the drama of planting a multicultural communion lovely above and interdependently rooted below, inside human voices sound pre-occupied with unremediated mediocr......

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Categories: distractedly, culture, earth, football, garden,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cheerio Imaginations
...Imagine, for the two thousand and twentieth time, Yang is hierarchical upside power hungry from above, authorized to prey on those yins below, however resiliently they may pray. Yang grows po......

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Categories: distractedly, analogy, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Still For Coming Back
...O’ dear look- the garden of lilac and cheery is alive But- butterfly is dead bees are flying distractedly Lover and beloved on opposite doors of garden News are fractured in f......

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Categories: distractedly, lost love,
Form: Free verse
New Neighbors, Part I
...As Miss Luby watches from her window a moving van backs up the driveway across the street BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! its warning cry has a beacon-like effect on the neighborhood arousing in......

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Categories: distractedly, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Brownies With Red Wine
...Said THC to Alcohol, A political difference I find between us, I am more RightBrain cooperative exhibitionist and you more LeftBrain inhibitor. Which implies, Alcohol sneers, you more holier h......

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Categories: distractedly, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form: Free verse

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