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Gapes Poems - Poems about Gapes

Premium Member Thirty Knots an Hour
... His very bones smell of ocean beard lashed with its salt On land, rubber legs awkward he gapes and he gawks But rig him up a mast ......

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Categories: gapes, boat, identity, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks III
... This morning, my yard was hopping with squirrels and rabbits busily shopping for pine needles, berries, and cones, perfumes, oils, and sweet colognes, to entice partners for this......

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Categories: gapes, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon, the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o......

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Categories: gapes, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans translation
...French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Traitorous ey......

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Categories: gapes, death, fear, grave, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Animating Innate Vibrance
...The “Bench” sits proudly among the trees, perched high and overlooking the beauty of the water down below. Exquisitely black, it seems to hypnotize, beckoning you to stop for a spell. ......

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Categories: gapes, encouraging,
Form: Free verse



Ancient Poetry
...In the wild, grey wilderness of gealtach mind madwoman's scáth, shadow self, I unwind sraith scream echoes, physics contorted in taibhse pain As I walk the ridge, druím, of my own private d......

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Categories: gapes, art,
Form: Free verse
The Happy Accident of Life
...Tell me the clouds aren't hung on fishwire That it's chance should trees reach such like a spire That even with elements scrambled so dire This Earth can recover and shan't ever tire......

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Categories: gapes, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Raining in Summer
...I watch my verdant eyes envious as the botanicals blossom in a sandstone sunrise glow, I am a forlorn figure wandering in my fog of fears, I cannot omit my icy turbulent tears, Our short saga......

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Categories: gapes, anger, anxiety, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Favorite Toys
...We, children love to build lego blocks Our knacks never run out of stocks; We can make miniature city, People, animals, houses, flowers And a lot more! So colorful and pretty! Legos ar......

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Categories: gapes, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispers of Wisdom
...Written: October 29, 2023 _______________________________________ Truth aspires in amorphous silence. Upset, drowned men's bodies rise in impatience. Man squandered......

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Categories: gapes, analogy, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decayed
...Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald _____________________________......

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Categories: gapes, analogy, angst, bereavement, care,
Form: Rubaiyat
Deep Night
...It's the glove pitching with the dark; It moves through the wings of a crying skylark. It storms through all your soul's language— It gapes from that bleak wreckage. It's the vault around the......

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Categories: gapes, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Couplet
The Payload
... "The Payload" The payload came crashing down like rain expelled from the fat belly of a ruinous pregnant cloud bilious with buxom promise it came crashing down ......

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Categories: gapes, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Connie's the Women Without a Ticket
...Connie's The Women Without A Ticket I sit at a bar, starring at other couples I admit I had a few No, not relationships But a few beers to ease the pain Today's not any different I keep......

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Categories: gapes, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refugees
...From the dark arenas of violence, from the shackles of oppression, from a land reeking of the smell of blood, they flee bloodied and bruised. these scraps of humanity, alienated f......

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Categories: gapes, anxiety, depression, immigration,
Form: Free verse

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