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Forefinger Poems - Poems about Forefinger

The Purple Mark
... The stained digit, a purpled declaration, a temporary badge of civic duty. A single press, a moment's commitment, indelible ink blooming on the forefinger, a mark that resists casual erasure......

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Categories: forefinger, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams Wrapped in Fairy Dust
... Written: January 08, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Creeping softly through the iron gate. I can't belie......

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Categories: forefinger, analogy, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member We Can Activate a Happy New Year
...Into the fog I fell, amidst the bone chilling cold, caterwauled by silence - eerily the end of the year, dismal. With the call of a forefinger, I float through the mist, silence switches to......

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Categories: forefinger, new year,
Form: Free verse
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM
...WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM When religion becomes your opium you slip into icy pre-dawn to mosque then lie in fever flu at dusk as bilal calls again for you to stumble towards bec......

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Categories: forefinger, 12th grade, deep, god,
Form: Alliteration
And I Exhaled
...I was so close to the sun, Tantalizing; ethereal- Warm rays rolling over my skin before- Sinking deep, A parasite rooting itself into my neck, Gentle caresses- Strangling- Choking-. Churnin......

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Categories: forefinger, abuse, anxiety, inspirational, pain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Let Me Be Frank
...Let me be Frank. I pulled up to the Stork Club in a bright Red Coupe Deville. I must admit I felt a bit of pride as I tossed the bell hop the keys. I said "Keep it close Kid!". As he sat behind th......

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Categories: forefinger, character, fantasy, future, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Leaning On a Tombstone
...Leaning On a Stone I was afraid of gaining weight, so I kept on puffing my cigarettes. Filling my lungs, holding that drag as long as I could. I liked that feeling deep in my chest. When I breathe......

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Categories: forefinger, addiction, character, death,
Form: Prose
I Cherish Every Precious Lock of My Hair As a Keepsake
...I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake Twas partly on account of yours truly being incarnation of Samson; spouse and I wed please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread; though a......

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Categories: forefinger, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
How To Use Condom
...Grandmas I teach how to suck eggs: Marathoners long use of legs, Soon hurting Enlightened People; Might sooner unleash a ripple; What would she say: The Western World? Possibly, a heart is now g......

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Categories: forefinger, health, humanity, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Plane
...PAPER PLANE A project with my small son After so much paper folding Sharpening important creases Anticipation slowly increases Thumb and forefinger holding First flight testing has begun H......

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Categories: forefinger, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Folkie
...There is a squat/stout duffer in a windbreaker and a Mets cap on the outskirts of the park playing a rickety 5 string and hoot'in and holler'in. I have no idea what he is singing. There is no d......

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Categories: forefinger, character,
Form: Narrative
Sorry For
...all the angers i sent into the world all the injustices i never got to stop all the sorry i never spent not spending more time ogling the cloud never wearing rain for a shroud all the times betw......

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Categories: forefinger, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hold the Sacred Heart In My Hand
...I Hold the Sacred Heart in My Hand I anger, I make a fist, ready to throw ... but no. My heart pride will not hold. I humble my heart, I let love flow. lt is love from the mightiest he......

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Categories: forefinger, anger, heart, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How To Give a Cat a Pill
...1) Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your arm as if holding a baby. Position forefinger and thumb on either side of the cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill ......

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Categories: forefinger, cat,
Form: Free verse
Earth
...I crumbled the dirt between thumb and forefinger grit tumbled and rolled following the grooves and fissures of wrinkled worn hands light seeping between my fingers glinted off of some of the spe......

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Categories: forefinger, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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