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Droppers Poems - Poems about Droppers

Premium MemberRavens and Lilies

...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden


lilies and ravens
dance together making mud puddles
thick as salve caked on deep wounds
stemming ...
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Categories: droppers, betrayal, childhood, first love,
Form: Suzette Prime

Silent Killer

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Silence was my friend 
no one knew of the harm done
to this body, no one knew of
the banging screams against
this smiling door that everyone
saw.
Our parents damaged the innocence 
that laid...
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Categories: droppers, abuse, betrayal, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Day In the Life - Act 5

...Fleas, ticks, and parasites are the bane of pets and pet owners.  They require medications.  It is a well know veterinary fact that to administer medications to a dog is simple: “wrap it in bacon and...
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Categories: droppers, cat, dog, health,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberA Crack At the Nutcracker

...*Image of A Cedar Waxwing in Winter by The C Lab.

a crack at the nutcracker

sole *waxwing natures
crowned nomen swathed pastel fair~
seats heart hints of hues

*These birds are berry eaters...
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Categories: droppers, bird, imagery, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku

We Didn'T Know

...Dad had threatened for some time to reclaim the land behind the shed,
where rubbish over many years, had stockpiled but now instead
of being easy to be shifted; blackberries, docks and thistles gro...
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Categories: droppers, family, farm,
Form: Rhyme



If There Were Just More Porches

...An old house with an old porch
Is a most miraculous thing.
Politics are settled, children admonished,
Babies shown off and growing up, 
Advice shared – we need more porches,
Fewer therapists, va...
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Categories: droppers, longing, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Know Your Name-Droppers

...Untrue, harmless, "I phoned Schwarzenegger..."
True, harmless boast: "I love my Srinagar.” 
Surreal:  "The shark killed me."
Dubious: “FBI? John, it’s me. ”
True, untrue, dubious— or just a swagg...
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Categories: droppers, funny,
Form: Limerick

Rain Havoc

...Rain Havoc  

Like angry man, thoughtlessly, it came from the twilight sky
It hands were big, icicle, falling on the roof like hammer
Though it was twilight, but there ought to be a sign posted i...
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Categories: droppers, imagery, strength, water,
Form: Rhyme

Thats Where Im From

...I GREW UP IN A WORLD WITH >>>>>>NO MERCY AND REGRET<<<<<<<
Where teenagers argues about sex like its weather “what mom…It’s just sex”
Condoms out of fashion as they grew to fear them more than HIV ...
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Categories: droppers, corruption, pain, pride,
Form: ABC

Big Red Bellied Black Snake

...Dad had threatened for some time, to reclaim the land behind the shed,
where rubbish over many years, had stockpiled but now instead
of being easy to be shifted, blackberries, docks and thistles gr...
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Categories: droppers, family, farm,
Form: Rhyme

Summer By Vera Polozkova Translation

...Yep, this summer is sooo nice - 
Everything's running as in a race.
It's hot, you ask the nurse for ice
To cool off your wicked long-haired face.

Windows bear long water drop hues,
Quirky bird...
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Categories: droppers, seasons, summer,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberOpaque Tears

...Staring in from the outside
I was always looking through opaque windows
At posers and name droppers
I thought perhaps that they were superficial
A façade of face
With no substance 
But I found ...
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Categories: droppers, loneliness,
Form: Blank verse

The Evils of Drugs Part I

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The Evils Of Drugs  part I

What are the evils of drugs? How do we know when,
we encounter them? The evils of drugs are everywhere.
They seem to sneak up on us. Usually you start by exp...
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Categories: droppers, addiction, drug,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAllow Me To Repeat Myself

...Dreamers dream
Scoffers scoff
Thinkers think
And droppers drop

Artists create art
Writers will write
Beware of biters, yes they will bite

A smiler will smile
Still sometimes they'll frown...
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Categories: droppers, journey,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberChristmas Shopping

...Town malls are cluttered with Christmas shoppers,
toting packages of last-minute-list-droppers.

Carols echo from high pillared ceiling,
leaving one and all with a charitable feeling.

Door frames dr...
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Categories: droppers, holiday, christmas, christmas,
Form: Couplet

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