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Elbows Poems - Poems about Elbows


Premium Member Canadians: Elbows Up
Said to my daughter: The Canadians elected the Liberal Prime Minister She responded: That makes them smarter than us. ...

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Categories: elbows, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elbows Up!
It's an ice hockey term that means, "Let's Fight!" A Canadian rally cry by right Against annexation to stay their own nation It's against Trump's greed for control they smite His arrogant audacity's surreal For wanting another country to steal To be king on a throne He's destroying his own Before him he expects the world to kneel The term, 'Elbows Up' we should take...

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Categories: elbows, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Limerick



Elbows and a Kettle
Elbows on the desk, hands shoved against eyes, knuckles pressed into their corners. You know how it is: you’re thinking, facing the screen. Pondering, trying to meditate, excogitate. Where is it? Where was it? It was in my mind a moment ago. It’s gone, my brain has lost it. I even ask what it was. The kettle boiled, whistled. A letter hit my mailbox. A car screeched...

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Categories: elbows, absence, silence,
Form: Free verse
Rubbing Elbows On the Table
Rubbing elbows on the table ...

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Categories: elbows, allusion, culture, england, freedom,
Form: Couplet
Lets Pray On Our Elbows
lets pray on our knees and ankles elbows and knuckles and repent red clad priest coughs blue blood cups full of wet kisses he will come again in the last days yellow butterfly hangs by the thread till they bleed he urged us to plead lord in heaven forgive us please green ushers walked past silencing the little children below the age of three...

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Categories: elbows, allegory,
Form: I do not know?



Butters Drippin From My Elbows
Butters Drippin’ From My Ears Summer’s mostly over I’ve not once mentioned Iowa corn. It’s the symbol of the state In which this rhymer’s born. There are other places That grows passable “sweet” corn. I’ve eaten several others But my druthers always torn. In dead of winters dreary days And it’s all the markets got That “shipped in” product May pacify the corn longing spot. But when Iowa...

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Categories: elbows, farm, food, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Keep Your Elbows Off the Table
Keep Your Elbows Off the Table By Elton Camp It has always been the rule Both at home and in school Elbows on table were a crime And not permitted at any time There’s no reason it should stop Elbows are a really handy prop If elbows, man and God offend, Why are our arms made to bend?...

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Categories: elbows, funny
Form: Rhyme

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