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Goners Poems - Poems about Goners


Premium Member Stared Down By the Shoebill Stork
...I was standing next to an African swamp the other day When the wing span of a dynamo spread a shadow my way It covered my body length, and I was lying down flat. I said to my husband “What do you ......

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Categories: goners, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Goners and the Becoming
...there is an afterlife in these high branches spirit bears watch as tracks appear and vanish men who walk around trees become women but only when the tree is ......

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Categories: goners, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bat and Gat: Hero Cats
...A rather long tale, it is written: The story of heroic kittens The boy was called 'Bat' The girl’s name was 'Gat' By the end, you’re going to be smitten In a medical flight to Ukraine A suppl......

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Categories: goners, animal, hero, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Too Late
...Too late Charlie realized she should have listened to the internal voice that had been yelling “NO!” when the large black truck stopped for them. She knew it was now too late to get out, too late t......

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Categories: goners, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Goners and the Becoming
...there is an afterlife in these high branches spirit bears watch as tracks appear and vanish men who walk around trees become women when the tree is old e......

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Categories: goners, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member From Our Perch In the Gnarly Gumdrop Tree
...Greeting the day's offerings, we cat souls Were watching for scampering voles and moles. Five vigilant cousins and I, perched up high, watching the sun rise in the eastern sky. From our perch ......

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Categories: goners, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Time
...Eighteen years of wild youth and I moved forward in search of life's truths. Suddenly, I was twenty one and there was nothing that could not be done; reality set in round twenty five and life......

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Categories: goners, age, time,
Form: Rhyme
Bringing To Order
...And if you stand in doubt Who brought this rhyme about My name is Isaac James Odah I remain in good order. Though my rhyme be regged Tattered, rusty and jagged; If you take heed It'll be a g......

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Categories: goners, character, corruption, humanity,
Form: Verse
Wind-Up Toys In the Sky
...Between each limping breath the sky pulsates blanched green searing, each day inspired by gray blight, each day the firmament harbors dense, blazing energy, a circus troupe of skyward lungs hacki......

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Categories: goners, absence, age, dark, earth,
Form: Narrative
Haven'T You Ever
...haven't you ever fallen for someone that you'd rip your own heart out for them, or take another's life for them? Haven't you ever loved someone that meant the world over to you and one day it wa......

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Categories: goners, absence, betrayal, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Freaks and the Goners
...To the freaks and the goners I say we raise a glass To the lonelies and the loners The weirdos and outcasts To us freaks, the ones who still stand, The ones who no matter what, Never say "I can't" To......

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Categories: goners, depression, emo, emotions, high
Form: I do not know?
The Cross On Side On the Road
...The cross on side the road        For Tj, Megan,Gabby, and Ian They were only kids Barely adults, Driving home And something terrible happened... Everyone awoke To this horrid accident, A......

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Categories: goners, death, dedication, loss, sadcar,
Form: I do not know?
Roses, Violets, and Cookies
...Roses are Red Violets are Blue Cookies are Sweet And so are You But... The Roses are parched The Violets are Dead The cookie jar's empty And too much went unsaid And... The Roses n......

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Categories: goners, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, love
Form: Rhyme

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