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Fidgets Poems - Poems about Fidgets

The Espresso Salon

...He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.

“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”

He pours stout
with ...
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Categories: fidgets, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHourglass

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Hourglass

The sun has become dimmed 
with each step
the pathways seem endless 
He is dazed
even as his mind is fazed
He loafs 
as a floating leaf
romancing the breezy wind
He is im...
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Categories: fidgets, angst, anxiety, devotion,
Form: Narrative



Fidgets

...Fidgets here,
Fidgets there, 
Fidgets sneaked 
Into childhood 
Unaware 
The etch a 
Sketch, magic
Screen and
Magic board 
Fidgets were 
A true blessing...
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Categories: fidgets, anti bullying, anxiety, change,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberJust Dust

..."It's just dust," he said, kicking the dry ground
With a worn boot,
Toe pointed cowboy style
But with none of the flash.
"This could be grandpa," he said,
Shoulders rounded, eyes to the ground.
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Categories: fidgets, family, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Chinese Horoscope, Preserved

...“Dragons don’t live up to the talk. 
I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”,
Opined the jealous Jabberwock,
“Of the scaly, lummox dragon.” 

This foul fiend then, most inhumanely, 
Pausing to munch ...
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Categories: fidgets, allegory, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme



The Schizoid

..."I shall cut off your right digits!"
And the fine red-haired girl fidgets!
Not in early teens, now Eighteen:
Should with success run a canteen...

But Joyce before speaker just trembles,
Every ...
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Categories: fidgets, character, fear, gothic, health,
Form: Rhyme

Addict Alien

...Thoughts and acts attack sporadic a tactic without static/
Don’t panic you old addict forget that statistic/
I’ll slick back and go ballistic on a notebook with hope cooked rhetoric/
Stick affluen...
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Categories: fidgets, addiction, angst, art, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Wind Chill

...The temperature is 21 -
Though cold, it fits the season,
But that does not explain why,
While out walkin,’ I was freezin.’

For when you factor wind chill in,
It feels like single digits
And t...
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Categories: fidgets, wind,
Form: Rhyme

Artchard

...You've heard of an orchard/ 
I've stirred up an artchard with girthed art to be heard/
Words come in with fun as the function never turned defunct/
Metaphors and puns run an injunction to sever cl...
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Categories: fidgets, adventure, art, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhilst the Muse Sits Idle

...Haven’t sorted this years poems
And another year is looming
Yet my fingers dance and play
Upon the keyboard every day
Some say the poems that I write
Are seamless, flowing, very tight
Others pa...
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Categories: fidgets, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBack To Live

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My smart iPhone drowned, what a dread! 
No purpose to get out of bed. 
Can’t do without fidgets 
With smarty pants digits 
When my social life just dropped dead!

My buddy, from a...
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Categories: fidgets, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Contacts

...clarity seeps the wound 
the flip phone missing digits 
a womb infused with violet hues 
it's quiet till it fidgets 

happenstance and bruise 
it swells for martyr avenues  
the screen is crac...
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Categories: fidgets, abuse, identity, pain, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAbandoned Clamp

...the vice cannot squeeze any tighter

bolts crushed under the benchmark

gather dust with nuts and lost screws

a DIY manual mocks arrested craft

I cannot hold it together much longer

limb...
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Categories: fidgets, depression,
Form: Free verse

He Who Drinks

...See how the alcoholic wants his drink. He's got a black can of strong cider. He's in the queue behind me. I sense his agitation. He fidgets, moving from one foot to the other. 

I must have my drin...
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Categories: fidgets, anxiety, devotion, drink, sympathy,
Form: Verse

Cyclononane

...A nonet of carbon atoms
dances around its nonexistent
center, morphing into an infinite
series of noncoplanar nonagons, a nonconformist 
to aromatic laws. It fidgets
with its configurations, a n...
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Categories: fidgets, science,
Form: Free verse

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