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Elbowing Poems - Poems about Elbowing

Premium MemberWhat the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider

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The house came with ghosts.  
Not the subtle kind, either—no  
wistful sighs or cool drafts,  
just full-blown poltergeist tantrums.  
Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m.,  
spectral remnants of old a...
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Categories: elbowing, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Goodbye and good riddance 2023

...Goodbye and good riddance 2023

Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.

The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and 
albeit...
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Categories: elbowing, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberNightmare

...It was my first journey by train all alone. When dropped at the station by my cousin, I saw a huge crowd waiting at the station. Like a drop in the ocean, I quickly merged with the crowd, and patient...
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Categories: elbowing, angst, fear, feelings,
Form: Haibun

Burden

...A load of unfixed weight,
We ourselves sum up or rate,
Sometimes pegging it to a kilogram,
Under lesser stress to a gram; 
Either a chosen or entrusted role:
Office with files taller than a pole...
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Categories: elbowing, humanity, jealousy, judgement, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSubjective Interlude

...flowers in conversation 
or
confrontation 
in white-bright light.
duet, leaning
as if elbowing the window
of an automobile,
glaring-blank stare.
the other with violet eyes -
the kind
that d...
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Categories: elbowing, flower,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberVines In Hues

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Feathery vines twine and twist with thirst,
carefree they journey wither and hither wild;
filigree hues of green they grow unrehearsed,
staggeringly beautiful-   who cannot be begui...
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Categories: elbowing, nature,
Form: Lento

The Glutton

...Do not stretch out your hand for everything you see
For evil is the eye that makes your tongue seek
A delicious, diverse platter better left untouched
To allow you peaceful slumber and a tummy unc...
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Categories: elbowing, character, culture, education, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSowing a Seed To Make Me Bleed-

...Sowing a seed to make me bleed

Fear is a laden earthen farmer
Dirty is the solemn stain path
Filthy plummet plans of wrath
You break in me a spirit charmer
Sowing seeds of destruct...
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Categories: elbowing, analogy, farm, fear, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2019

...Commencement writing this poem
began December 24th: 08:04:03 PM
ended December 24th: 09:23:17 PM.

Soon Auld Lang Syne
sung bidding goodbye
adieu two thousand nineteen
uttered from every gal a...
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Categories: elbowing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Stark Realization, I Harbor Sacrilegious Objection

...Stark realization, I harbor sacrilegious objection...

Against merry christmas premature blowout,
(or otherwise) ejaculation galore burnout,
hence I feel like the odd man out
neither yours truly...
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Categories: elbowing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Reunion

...The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...

First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and c...
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Categories: elbowing, age, character, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme

May Walking the Canal

...along the toll path, worn by footfall, 
I walk as a water colourist
tracing the canal's hidden track, 

hewn blocks are daubed, 
washed by mildew green 
silver weals etched like faded liver spo...
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Categories: elbowing, nature,
Form: Free verse

Lancaster Canal

...along the toll path, worn by footfall, 
I walk as a water colourist
tracing the canal's hidden track, 

hewn blocks are daubed, 
washed by mildew green 
silver weals etched like faded liver spo...
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Categories: elbowing, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBaby Sister

...brother elbowing for some attention
an inkling of jealousy
her being too darn cute



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on January 8, 2018...
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Categories: elbowing, baby, childhood, cute, innocence,
Form: Kimo

Homecoming

...Down on the pier, the midmorning bright,
Thronged wives, husbands, lovers,
And sons, friends, young daughters,
All eyes perusing the grand and gray ship
In long-simmered hope of glimpsing one fac...
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Categories: elbowing, home, marriage, military,
Form: Free verse

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