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Grim Faced Poems - Poems about Grim Faced

The call of the sea
... The call of the sea I walk alone Amid the crowds Of unsmiling grim-faced people And dream of turning into a white bird And fly away From the noise surrounding me ......

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Categories: grim faced, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Full Measure
...Last Full Measure Car pulls into the driveway two doors slam. Gravel crunches as feet walk to the porch. Thump, thump, thump slow walk to porch. Ding, ding, ding, ding doorbell chime......

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Categories: grim faced, war,
Form: Free verse



Passive aggressive insubordination against establishmentarian paradigm
...Bully me, yours truly never ordained, gifted, or blessed with mien mean characteristic evoking, jump/kickstarting, representing, nor zapping friend or foe courtesy fiery intimidation if anythi......

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Categories: grim faced, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 114 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Godfrey and Barrington's Fiesta and Food Reperation Shift
...Damian was on the tele-video conference with various Prestigious Proper people of distinction. The US Vice president was on Skype along With Secretary of State. He spoke With Russia's top dip......

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Categories: grim faced, color, husband,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Affairs
...Next day new school day. Amadeus was the first to Wake then he woke DJ and Damali And all three went for The showers. Twenty minutes Later they woke everybody else Including the adults. The......

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Categories: grim faced, beach, christmas, emotions, family,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Gone, Perhaps Forever
...Someone very near and very dear leaves, perhaps forever, no offense but he has his own right to life, it just happens to be thousands of miles away... and so I go about my daily grind ......

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Categories: grim faced, leaving, lonely, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mission Exit
...Mission Exit In the far lane out of the marine fog, Near Mission Road Exit- the 5 South- a 1965 Ford Ranchero, vein blue and sea bleached bone white. The grim faced driver, hands at ten......

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Categories: grim faced, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Hurricane Harvey Landfall August 27th 2017
...This long time doodling Yankee (who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV plus III four seasons visited upon swath of topography to see and hear flora and fauna over run via in......

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Categories: grim faced, america, courage, environment, loss,
Form: Imagism
The Asphalt Sea
...not looking to left, or right, another rider drove straight into her, knocking her off her blue Yamaha and out into the asphalt sea, then…looking quickly round, (for steam rollers) she jumped ......

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Categories: grim faced, humor,
Form: Free verse
White Saree
...White Saree You my friend! In White(1) Saree(2) and grim faced Your dresses were, as always, colorful and laced What happened to that enchanting, infectious smile? Where is that enthusiasm, your cha......

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Categories: grim faced, death, husband, loss, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tornado Warnings
...Tumultuous skies of molten lead, Ominous air thick with dread. Rotation begins its deadly dance, Nauseous swirling spurring its advance. Allied together hail, lightning, rain, Drop from the......

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Categories: grim faced, natural disasters,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Precipice of a Lost Innocence
...I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence. Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood. Someone is hammering on our front door. My father, looking a bit annoyed, shuffles a......

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Categories: grim faced, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Men In Black
...Who are these notorious grim-faced men Government spies, aliens, perhaps Satan What color shows the real you? Pray it is a brighter hue! Just please don’t put on that black suit again......

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Categories: grim faced, funny, science fiction
Form: Limerick
The Road To the Ballot Box -- In Memory of the Tiananmen Incident 1989
...The Road to the Ballot Box – In Memory of the 1989 June Fourth Movement in Tiananmen Square, Beijing Up high, the portrait of Chairman Mao looms Over the ballot box, wrapped in chains of doom ......

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Categories: grim faced, politicalfreedom,
Form: Free verse
Mother's Day
...I bought my house for its mirrored walls in the master bath from which you could fancy yourself as a forties' film star, your flawless body soaking in billowing suds, or stepping into a glassed-i......

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Categories: grim faced, funeral, house, grandmother, house,
Form: Ballad

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