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Drag Out Poems - Poems about Drag Out

The Block
... When I imagined what it would be like to be a writer, I saw myself hunched over a typewriter with bourbon on the rocks sweating a ring onto my desk. I could smell the ink on my fingers ......

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Categories: drag out, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
BENCH
... I’ll SIT UNDER THIS TREE HOPING SOMEONE MIGHT STOP AND TALK TO ME I’M TIRED OF BEING ALONE AND IT’S OH SO LONESOME AT HOME MAYBE THEY MIGHT CARE AND HAVE A LITTLE TIME TO SHARE WE COULD ......

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Categories: drag out, solitude,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member they are cancelling school right
...It is snowing! It is snowing! It is SNOWING! Three children I usually have to drag out of bed are heading for the front door. I say “don’t forget your bookbags! Don’t you want breakfast?” Mom, it’......

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Categories: drag out, school, snow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member this poem revived my feelings
...This poem made me feel powerful and less lonely Gave me permission to drag out my own macabre feelings I found myself flying toward brilliance, enjoying “bat on the wing” In a way, I felt this was......

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Categories: drag out, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sun Smiles at the Pain
...Rubbing boys shoulders with sunburn oil. The sun smiles at the pain, the brush of fingers against raw flesh. But like a war wound, those boys be proud. Offer them a salve and they scoff, don......

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Categories: drag out, travel,
Form: Narrative



Lawnmowing
...Spring has sprung The lawns gone nuts Mowing time again No ifs or buts A martyred sigh Trudge to shed Drag out mower Filled with dread Attempt to start Psyche self up Try many time......

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Categories: drag out, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl In the Park
...I was waiting at the bus stop, for the number nine to take me uptown, that’s when I saw her in the park, sitting crossed-legged on the ground. The sun reflected in her golden hair, her lips were bl......

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Categories: drag out, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Saturday Morning Reflections
...My stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the t......

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Categories: drag out, community, future, happiness, sad,
Form: Narrative
Finding Me
...I carve a path out for me trying to make it in this soulless city confined to a big house aspirations seem to drag out sitting in this pink room trying to catch my breath at noon This heat is m......

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Categories: drag out, age, lost, stress, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worth Fighting For
...Soon the sun will shine Through the east facing blinds I haven't worked in seven months Yet, I rise every day before him And write a poem or two The ceiling fan wobbles Finches, sparrows and ......

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Categories: drag out, addiction, bird, daughter, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Donald and Ronald
...Donald and Ronald were identical twins. Growing up, they did everything together. They were not only brothers; they were best friends. It was almost like they were the same person because they ......

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Categories: drag out, best friend, brother, family,
Form: Narrative
The Others Part 2
...Suicide isn't an option but I can't say it has never been, I'll admit, I tried it once, way back when. I was only a teenager, And things had just piled too high. At first, I just did designs, lik......

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Categories: drag out, best friend, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sizzling Hot Summer Days
...Summer stands for beaches, parks, and camping. In June most flowers will be in full bloom, Zinnias, Begonias, and sweet-scented Zephyranthes share every color, while ......

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Categories: drag out, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Take This, Spenser
...My husband's like to water, I to oil. We're masters of the knock-down, drag-out brawl. We just don't mix. I cause his blood to boil and he enrages me. The dude has gall! From "Water and Oi......

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Categories: drag out, anger, marriage, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Water and Oil, a Parody
...my parody My husband's like to water, I to oil. We're masters of the knock-down, drag-out brawl. We just don't mix. I cause his blood to boil and he enrages me. The dude has gall! Why in the......

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Categories: drag out, marriage, parody,
Form: Sonnet

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