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Gawky Poems - Poems about Gawky

Environmental shots
...Unique Elite swimmer brown, tailless, Pied-billed Grebes can float, dive or simply submerge graceful dark eyes cinnamon tone heard but not often seen rear end feet, lobed toes, poor flier ......

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Categories: gawky, bird,
Form: Cinquain
Ode to the tallest mountain peak
...O thou world’s tallest mount of might, Like a gawky adolescent, Added hast thou to thy old height, I bow to thy quickest ascent. Thou, with thy siblings so many In the abode of hoary snow, A......

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Categories: gawky, eulogy, mountains,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Schizophrenic Portrait
...Written: May 09, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A diaphanous shroud on my cranium. It's worn down to the cram It's a reprieve from my madness. & now I clench my ......

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Categories: gawky, analogy, scary, sick,
Form: Free verse
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ......

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Categories: gawky, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member no one wanted me either
...no one wanted this unusual canary I related totally no one wanted me either I will take that one, I told the shop keeper That one! He was incredulous. I said that one, I said, nodding. The......

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Categories: gawky, bird,
Form: Prose Poetry



I South Africa I Woman
...{August is Woman’s Month in South Africa. August 9th is Woman’s Day. August 8th is an opening of the Lion’s Portal to Cosmic Strength. This poem is for all the Lion Hearted women who have crossed my ......

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Categories: gawky, courage, emotions, endurance, extended
Form: Bio
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber... just jabbering gibberish (A - J) Again, another awkward ambitious arduous attempt at alphabetically arranging atrociously ambiguously absolutely asinine ......

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Categories: gawky, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Politicians
...Ham player that by strength of DANGEROUS LINKS, performs the best roles... ......

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Categories: gawky, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Melon Rind Green
...Life was hard when growing up cus I was poor. Farm work always needed doing, chore after chore, wearin' hand-me-downs, never gettin' new toys. No time for playin' with friends, like other ......

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Categories: gawky, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Polite To Say No
...Morty’s feet were as graceful as a gawky giraffe on ice. He asked Morgan McMillon to the dance, not one time, but thrice. She could not refuse him a fourth time, for it would not seem nice. They a......

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Categories: gawky, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine... his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 No particular rhyme nor reason garden variety indentured flunky (me) revisits his ......

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Categories: gawky, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
Route 66ish No 9
...Route 66ish No 9 There once was a girl from Milwaukee, Who was terribly thin, even gawky, Her brother, called Pat, Was exceedingly fat, So she always addressed him as "Porky"!!......

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Categories: gawky, america, funny,
Form: Limerick
Gift of Glory
...God gave me a great gift of glory A gift of a good gracious guardian, Gifts of Gaiety, Gumption and Grief God’s gift grants no gates for groveling Nor are they gimmicks, glitches, nor guilt Thu......

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Categories: gawky, god,
Form: Alliteration
Unable To Bid Papa Goodbye
...Nonagenarian father afflicted, his body electric awry with congenital heart failure, before long twill bid existence bye whose physical well being - corporeal essence inevitably will die unav......

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Categories: gawky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Wished We Danced
...Oh how I wish we danced what a sight it would have been the dance I took from him, you floating on air, without a care angelic wings adorned, music swaying at every soft turn; me ......

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Categories: gawky, dance, destiny,
Form: Rhyme

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