Draft Poems - Poems about Draft

We're mannequins peering from a storage bin. We slouch across from the "No-Food" paper sign. Its message sags to a pulp taped to the shoulders of a glass door. Shoppers, incoming, their shared orange squirts juice. Our mannequin-custodial grins bar us from the lips' sweet 'oh'. Crowdsourcing emboldens shame, our French kisses hung on tangy wind chimes breezes tongue....

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Verse 1: I was once a whisper, light on your tongue, A gentle hum, a soft song to be sung. But like the fray of ink, fading with time, I fell from grace as you lost your mind. Your fingers once tender, tracing my lines, Now calloused and tired, no longer entwined. A thought you had, now lost in the folds, A burden...

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From the outside it might look like my life has improved, But in spite of how I like to be viewed, I’ve never had to bite my tongue as often as I have in these last few months. Just gotta chew on my words like food. On the Southside of the city view, The lights on the...

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Hello, Hello, just a shadow In a rat race on game show it’s a rat race on a circus show Just a game for the cat chase, In a rat race against the cat chase In this circus show On my tiptoe, for Romeo Under the mistletoe But the lifeguard let go Manifesto I'm in denial I'm in denial Hunted by a crocodile I'm swimming idle I'm swimming...

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The draft by the door can only mean… That there is someone behind the screen. They claimed it was just a gust of wind. That wandered in. But I know that they can be sneaky. Suddenly the house is creaky. I didn’t notice before… That there is a crater in the floor. There is a crack on...

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Alice I got my draft notice in 1971 Nam was winding down I didn’t wanna go. So, I started hummin a song, just a few bars mind you about Alice, you remember Alice. This is a song about Alice and the war of course. I thought I would have to report Then I remembered my special crime I committed in Stockbridge, Mass. Garbage, that was the...

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verse 1 Mr Nice Man nice disguise at the front just like your own paintings blur the edges just like Salvador. verse 2 Promising prizes not like the wisest dont act like you care Predator. Chorus your floating in the wrong seas your fighting me for what for your hunting for the wrong things all like Salvador. Chorus 2 Your fighting in the wrong seas hunting for the wrong things up side down, wrong...

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I would give everything I own Give up my hat, toupee, and comb I would give everything I own Just to scratch your back again....

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Sometimes there is no meaning Not what we feel, but this feeling It's how I feel, how you feel Knowing it's temporary, one season Be fleeting, don't be fast Because the faster the steps ... .... ..... Have you ever heard of an old saying? " Haste is the enemy of perfection " But you really achieved This desired perfection What's perfect for you? A pencil to...

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I wandered and pondered my bleak isolation As I slowly perused this wide open space That one cloud above me seemed, like me, quite lonely Its passage was slow as it matched my own pace And then I saw poppies so tall, red and bold I wished they were daffies in yellow and gold The lake in its vastness reflected the...

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First Draft Classroom creativity Ebb and flow Teaching the things I know I know Investigating others For a much better skill To teach to spark hunger And never to kill The desire to grow, create and fulfill Dreams and goals In the language of life With the music of poetry And literary device. ~ Judy Bausch ...

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Like moon on nights of skies unstarred she lived without her Abelard. A parched, still plain was Heloise - like moon on nights of skies unstarred. In death she would not lose regard for him who’d been her rain and breeze. Like moon on nights of skies unstarred, she lived without her Abelard....

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I love K food I love the taste I love the fragrance I love the smells I love the texture I love the feel I love how it looks Korean food is somewhat like Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai With some American influences as well But it is also unique Distinctive and delicious The fragrance of Korean food Is what draws me in The aroma of garlic, ginger, sesame...

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Upon her last sighs, she narrates cosmic sagas flowing within poetic veins. She still remembers those idyllic evenings, engrossed in raining confessions, influenced by her shipwrecked heart, expressing scarlet sentiments that sail in silence, across unruffled ink-stained waves, amidst the endless oceans between their untouched silhouettes. Her every desire to reunite and cast away midnight blues, float within perfumed love...

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On synthetic derelict stage of deception domain, I gyrate the split mind, ensnared by bipolarity chain. Under illusive limelight of ostentatious time, I’m entangled in machinated invasive paradox prime. In make-belief life’s drama I act with no compunction, I face fabricated faces flocking redundant in conjunction. Identity lost in conglomerate of counterfeit facades, I don’t perform by heart's prudent...

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