Hamper Poems

While Trying To Be

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Need I my dear son
Show you the light of sun
Or teach you how to croon 
Under a half or a full moon..
You seem to learn and know 
As you live, bond and grow 
How to successful be
While try...
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Categories: hamper, family, future, graduation, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA DECREPIT JELLYFISH DREAMER

...Many mountains, seas, women, and dollars made
But for you only was each moment played
An aged wine flask, your decrepit skin cracks
As flaccid muscles bend your creaking back
Hard hammer toes ham...
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Categories: hamper, animal, dark, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSummer holiday

...The summer holidays are here! 
Time to relax and unwind.
Let's head for the beach,
build sandcastles, ride on donkeys
and paddle in the sea.

The golden sun is shining -
No clouds ...
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Categories: hamper, beach, holiday, sun,
Form: Free verse

Fate

...The abyss swallowed you
Into the ocean of despondency,  
Right above death's holler,  
And you couldn't quitclaim.  
No skepticism, no demurrer—  
You took fate lightly.  

Memento Mori, your ...
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Categories: hamper, faith, fate, mystery, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRin kai fuki

...Katsushige Mizuno
Is too awesome for just one lord, you know
For 15 years lived as a wanderer
Moving on from one liege to another

His father's serf once tattled on his misconduct
So he drew hi...
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Categories: hamper, history, humorous,
Form: Clerihew


Premium MemberBorrow

...
I went to my neighbors
To ask for a favor
And said may I borrow
Stuff I need tomorrow,
But she stopped me short
With this stunning retort:

“Do you need sugar cane
Drano for a clogged drain...
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Categories: hamper, crazy, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEels of Kalapana's Queens Bath

..."Kalapana Queens Bath was a hole in the ground filled with brackish water (salty seawater mixed with fresh mountain filled rainwater) and host to living mysteries," ... by The Poet.

It...
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Categories: hamper, beautiful, childhood, color, imagery,
Form: Quintain (English)

The Helping Hand

...In a world full of despairs, distrust and betrayals.
World one can not lean on nor breathe.
Sanctuaries turned to haunted abode...
Nightmares with bleak future a norm as hope 
Long gone,leaves im...
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Categories: hamper, 3rd grade, africa, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGoodbye Nadine

...Goodbye Nadine                                                 

Over the last two days I have been thinking about all the times we shared 
        together. 
I don’t know why I am feeling sad an...
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Categories: hamper, feelings, girlfriend, goodbye, love
Form: Prose

Buzzing Bees

...Buzzing bees that always pass by 
You don't even understand why 
You don't know them and they don't know you
They don't know what you're going through 

You don't understand what's their problem...
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Categories: hamper, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Light My Soul

...You march through the village with guns, missiles and rockets, and scrutinize the people, with foolish command that ravished the entire village before the break of dawn.

 You make appointment with...
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Categories: hamper, angel, appreciation, city, community,
Form: Narrative

Dirty

...i feel dirty 

dirty 
like dishes
in the sink

dirty 
like forgotten clothes
in the hamper

dirty 
like the earth
between your toes

dirty 
like my fingernails
after a day’s work

d...
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Categories: hamper, abortion, angst, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy New Year Resolutions

..."It is so easy to make resolutions, but to keep them is an uphill task"~ By Poet

We take new resolutions on each New Year’s Day,
But never seriously stick to them and success ebbs away.

I ...
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Categories: hamper, celebration, character, funny,
Form: Couplet

What's Louder than Thunder Yet, Soft As A Whisper's Whisper

...#THIS DEDICATION SPEAKS TO A PARTICULAR INDICATION...

IT SPEAKS TOO...

SPECIFICALLY WHO???

ANYONE WHO STAYS...

UNDERNEATH
COVERS/SHIELDINGS AND YIELDINGS.


SIRENS IN HIGHEST DECIBELS...
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Categories: hamper, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMelting Sugar

...Written: August 22, 2023
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snuggled in a bunk
with the sun glistening in~
soothed with Summer fun

slight melting ic...
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Categories: hamper, analogy, cheer up, summer,
Form: Haiku

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