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Handfuls Poems - Poems about Handfuls

Premium Member letting go, just
...I watch him gathering days in arms, like handfuls of sand, spilling, pouring, into an hour-glass with never a grain lost. His voice, once sweet and melodious, cracked, now fed on adult's ......

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Categories: handfuls, boy, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hillary Hears a Who!
... Hillary Hears a Who! Who is an Amma slam? One who Gives a Damn, Just ask Melli, Or Will, Sam or Ellie, Our Hill who’s True Blue not Glam! Who has a swell Quill? Arrows that instill......

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Categories: handfuls, birthday, sister,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Marketplace
...“The Marketplace” Today the marketplace is open. Ready with crisp linens for handfuls of gold. Hordes of buyers stomp the asphalt scurrying by and through to the next. I have worn my smile. ......

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Categories: handfuls, absence, emotions, longing, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Eternal Water Ballet
...Written for contest "Haibun" 11/29/2024 by Tom Woody Stoic by the edge where sand meets the salt, sun warmed grains so white whisper beneath your feet and we are anchored here in this moment. Th......

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Categories: handfuls, beach, beauty, summer, sun,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The vanishing Olive trees of Puglia
...Ongoing rows of trees branches reaching binding crawling braiding trunks of olive trees capturing my senses warm breeze glides down my spine the ripened forestry handfuls delightful ripen......

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Categories: handfuls, art, environment, garden,
Form: Rubai



Breathe in, breathe out, start typing
...Back straight, shoulders down. Straighten the computer. Stop staring at the purple walls. Light the candle once, twice, three times -- why won’t it light? -- before the flame finally catches, the ......

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Categories: handfuls, anxiety, change, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
Suicide
...Suicide, suicide was never really a serious topic for me until I tried to commit suicide. I always felt bad but never really thought too hard about it when people talked about it. And losing people......

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Categories: handfuls, 9th grade, cry, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Planting Seeds
... leaves in trembling hues of bronze and gold, fall gently to the earth, where they’ll leave a carpet of crunching truths, blessings in beautiful ~ by poet walking in silence, on the......

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Categories: handfuls, autumn,
Form: Terza Rima
THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF NATURE
... Whistling air burning fire running water, waiting earth... water with earth, clay, water with air, foam, fire with water, water very warm... Air with air, flute, earth with earth......

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Categories: handfuls, allusion, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member DON'T FORGET THE SEEDS
... A favorite memory of her grandma began before she could even say a word… In her Grandma’s backyard, sitting on her lap…tossing seeds out for the birds. It’s where her love for her grandma and b......

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Categories: handfuls, bird, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Winters End
...Rise Up ryes on the rise with soothing flours and Spring flowers Rise Up with handfuls of caraway seeds at Winters End all your cares will cease Rise up ryes on the rise the aroma of sunri......

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Categories: handfuls, christian, easter, spring,
Form: Verse
Premium Member White Wine And Feather Boa Dreams
...I wrap myself in feather-boa-fantasies of his dreams sinuous pinot-grigio-me; X-rated and never sated dancing to rock ‘n roll— 80’s dated ...my floorshow our foreplay welcome to the conjuga......

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Categories: handfuls, age, beauty, marriage, passion,
Form: Free verse
Our salvation in the hands of doom
...Arctic front just a little seems to much A tolerance to something with no passion or no desire To be that frozen bird on the wire Burning purpose Burning reason reason to plant the greatest idea......

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Categories: handfuls, future, space, world,
Form: Free verse
Ma’s Tree
...Ma’s Tree Bulbs, lights and tinsel Ring memories Each bulb a treasure That went on Ma’s Tree Unpacked with kid gloves Like newborn baby’s Kids dared not touch Such fragility’s Ma lef......

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Categories: handfuls, 5th grade, angel, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Tree
... "Children full of giggles, dance in excitement around the Christmas tree, a camera captures the moment." Quote by poet The emerging day, a crisp fresh white nature exemplifies earl......

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Categories: handfuls, tree,
Form: Free verse

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