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Gawked Poems - Poems about Gawked

The Maze
...I lay , Frozen in my own creation - The Maze It is gawked at by passerbys Only to laugh and scrutinize. They undermine the hold of them on me Not one willing to stay and untangle the poisoned iv......

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Categories: gawked, angst, anxiety, depression, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Morning After
...The consequences known, foretold for years, a crushing blow would break the country’s back, eclipsing the most pessimistic fears, a devastating night of blackest black… The zealots would be wo......

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Categories: gawked, america, political,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Pave the Adirondacks
... They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green," "Head upstate, change the scene," Nature's arms open wide, So I took that long Amtrak ride. I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was b......

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Categories: gawked, nature,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Confident Cousin Claire
...At the laundromat a girl who could not find a chair Sat in a dryer, her attitude was beyond compare She did not care who gawked or gave her a stare. I know her well, she is my self-confident cousi......

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Categories: gawked, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
And she screamed
...She found herself Screaming, Why was she here , she often wondered ,Why !! But deep down she knew , she was elegant ,she was classy , a head turner and most of all she knew how to work the audienc......

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Categories: gawked, feelings, jealousy, lonely, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part Iii
......Then he could see it, the boils, on their neck and wrists, bright and red, he felt an itch on his own back, and felt a cold moment of dread. Now Diaz could not ignore it, and Mains’s words ......

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Categories: gawked, corruption, god, hero, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member How Much Longer Does a Woman Wait
...how much longer does a woman wait? she feels humiliated and gawked at she got all dressed up to be jilted? in public? In the fanciest restaurant in town? She was thinking it was wedding proposa......

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Categories: gawked, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bruce the Goose
...I’m Bruce the goose And fly with geese I follow the rules In forming V’s And being a goose Sometimes I lead Then play caboose To lessen breeze Yet I faltered Their perfect V’s When I al......

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Categories: gawked, bird, funny, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature Speaks Best
...Dark space Cold & inexorable soul adrift heart stopped plopped shocked gawked I see you in m......

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Categories: gawked, analogy, appreciation, love, nature,
Form: Other
Swaggy Doggy
... Once, I saw a doggy, shaggy His dress style was super swaggy And when he walked The people gawked For off came his trousers baggy 27th February 2023 For "Put y......

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Categories: gawked, dog, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Gawking
...Forty-eight, sixty-eight, eighty-eight Age has no bearing whatsoever When it comes to a gorgeous young filly As long as she's breathing, that's all we need When the time we have left gets......

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Categories: gawked, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snowed
...It snowed last night which pleased me - but hardly enough - it just teased me. The thin, white sheet of snow looked bright and fresh the dull, browned hedges of fall became holiday dressed, th......

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Categories: gawked, beauty, school, snow, student,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 17, 37, 57
...Seventeen, thirty-seven, fifty-seven Age has no bearing whatsoever When it comes to a gorgeous young filly As long as she's breathing, that's all us guys need When the time we have le......

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Categories: gawked, women,
Form: Couplet
His Life Mattered, Part Iii
......When her own had run, that man had remained… they still called him evil, that seemed insane, when one day her brother came home stained red all of her concerns would come to a head. “We got ......

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Categories: gawked, change, conflict, growth, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One Lone Rose
...One lone rose tumbled from the basket, the same as the others but set apart All were beautiful. They congregated in one basket, these Southern belles, but she, with her pink cheeks, tumbled, she......

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Categories: gawked, flower,
Form: Haibun

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