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Edgewise Poems - Poems about Edgewise

Premium Member Get a Word In
...If I can’t get a word in edgewise, why would I bother trying any other way? My wife always finds a way to get a word, or two or more in. ......

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Categories: edgewise, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rambling
... rambling is all he does when drunk, which is often; nothing he says ever makes sense. don't be surprised if he falls ......

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Categories: edgewise, abuse, addiction, drink, encouraging,
Form: Rictameter



Premium Member Something About David
...Something about David, unsettles me Something about David, is different I saw . . . the warning sign It came, with my compulsion, to be near him To console and comfort him To share the nerve, t......

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Categories: edgewise, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Bird In the Hand
...falling on deaf ears can’t get a word in edgewise ~ now they see my point......

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Categories: edgewise, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member January Sunrise
...January Sunrise Arresting carnations through divulged eyes, o'er bursting citrus stretching a punchbowl --drapes prized quilt of January's Sunrise. Underneath confident amo......

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Categories: edgewise, january,
Form: Villanelle



Gugu and Momo
...shared a strange reality made from footsteps the land of spirit being open to improvisation with existence a fountain of plenty for all too much meaning too much of the time is it not true to the......

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Categories: edgewise, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Pet - Peeves
...Everybody has them - whether they admit it or not. Sometimes they're the same - as what others have got. Whether it's a lack of communication - or not getting a word in edgewise. Pretending to be ......

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Categories: edgewise, anger, anxiety, appreciation, care,
Form: Rhyme
Woman In 2017
...Fight hard as long as you're not too defensive or worse, stronger than him so we can't tell that he hit you so we don't have to pick up your slack Speak your mind as long as your voice isn't......

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Categories: edgewise, society, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Year Wishes
...Darling, I should like to do something more helpful about this continuing feminization, marginalization, disparagement of full integrative value for cooperatively-owned and managed ecopolitical......

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Categories: edgewise, destiny, gender, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Times of India a Source 1
...Whenever there are cold cruel cries Times of India appears in full-size For help of common to criticize All unjust, biased and unfair ties. All articles or poems to visualize Are supplied free......

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Categories: edgewise, encouraging,
Form: Monorhyme
Different Gifts
...Now you know all of us were endowed by our Creator with different various gifts, some of us can write, some of us can draw, some of us just sit, but there's a special brand out there that are v......

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Categories: edgewise, humor, people,
Form: Light Verse
A Grain of Salt
...A man, 20 years of age, another man, 40 years of age The young man in his inexperience asks the 40 year old man "You've lived twice my life, whats your advice?" The older man pauses Reflect......

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Categories: edgewise, appreciation, encouraging, growth, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Let George Do It
...There's a George in every neighborhood, although in yours, he may go by another name. George can be found pacing the sidewalks looking for neighbors to pounce upon with his purple-heart stori......

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Categories: edgewise, character,
Form: Narrative
A Theatrical Nose Dive
...This just in, we are long drawn out drab sentences of our breath, trying to base a topic off epiphany's languid scry, waiting on osmosis to spark a nerve. Crinkled pages, termites gnawing on penc......

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Categories: edgewise, assonance, imagination, introspection, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space
...Kermit went into space one day aboard that illustrious rocket X. Miss Piggy wasn’t far behind, so as to be there with her man. Those W.I.E.R.D. frogs of mine, came along, hitching, for the ride. C......

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Categories: edgewise, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

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