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Hand Me Down Poems - Poems about Hand Me Down

RUNAWAY
...[Verse 1] He wore the tie like a hand-me-down, Swore he'd make it big in some glass-wall town. But his mind kept drifting to that red clay bend, Where the river runs slow and the line don’t end. ......

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Categories: hand me down, absence, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form: Lyric
RICH GIRL IN RAGS
...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes upon her feet, so small they barely fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had spli......

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Categories: hand me down, celebrity, dream, irony, star,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member body box - what i am now v2
...if you saw me the way i see myself maybe you'd get it. "count your calories, read the nutrition panels, diet, exercise," i know. believe me, i know. "it's for your health," turns i......

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Categories: hand me down, anti bullying, body, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seagulls and Saints of Emmaus
...Seagulls and Saints of Emmaus David J Walker I see Seagulls and Saints And icy sills of Window’s Restraints of blurred realities And unaccompanied Complaints But clearly every pray ends I......

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Categories: hand me down, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon, the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o......

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Categories: hand me down, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member what i am now
...if you saw me the way i see myself maybe you'd get it. "count your calories, read the nutrition panels, diet, exercise," i know. believe me, i know. "it's for your health," turns i......

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Categories: hand me down, sad, slam,
Form: Free verse
An old country road
...Walking down the old country road, Hand me down clothes in the bag. Clothes with holes, and tattered robes, There’s no worries in getting dirty We’ll wash away the dirt in the stream, Whilst......

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Categories: hand me down, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, cute
Form: Free verse
A life with love in it
...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes on her feet so small they barley fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had split. ......

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Categories: hand me down, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Eye a generic happy go lucky arachnid hoped for a miracle
...Eye (a generic happy go lucky arachnid) hope(d) for a miracle Harken and cue lyrics to All I Need Is a Miracle Song by Mike + The Mechanics. Aye, a quizzical hunky-dory spied re: anomaly doth......

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Categories: hand me down, adventure, analogy, animal, august,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Champagne Mugs
...They arrived in rusted cars and ancient trucks slugged blue collar champagne from coffee mugs playing one eyed poker with calloused hands laughing like jackals -cussing like burning crabs. Th......

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Categories: hand me down, fishing, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Its a liar made so we spin
...I am the Ouroborus of trauma Thorned scales of each red flag So add them up and feed me my flaws Among clutter in a hand me down bag Let's laugh as I divulge my wounds I look a man but the bo......

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Categories: hand me down, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
Sunday's Cold Feet
...Sunday's cold feet My mind can go out for a journey It will relate to things I've seen and fill in the gaps how I would if I couldn't see As I see things I see no good and I see no bad I need n......

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Categories: hand me down, betrayal, humanity, introspection, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hand Me Down
...Must morning return so soon? her hand-me-down haste, & moth-eaten bloom, grieves for the rain, of last night's pour, but, I still taste, the petrichor, dancing, on my tongue. ......

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Categories: hand me down, introspection, memory, metaphor, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The last Generation
...Thinking about the good old days Reminiscing for a little while Some memories made me happy, some made me sad Some brought a tear and some brought a smile And I wondered Were we the last generat......

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Categories: hand me down, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member On the cusp of becoming
... Every so often, my mind wanders back to the summer of my youth, where a specific memory awaits. Having completed my first year at University, I’ve come home. My younger brother John, fiftee......

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Categories: hand me down, age, brother, future, growing
Form: Haibun

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