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Handlebars Poems - Poems about Handlebars

Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan no longer land of the free home of the brave, original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified, where diseases xeroxed ambushed, crushed, extinguished, squashed......

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Categories: handlebars, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Handlebars
...Let go of both the handlebars, free the fireflies from mason jars; Poignant lyrics sprung from memoirs barz built for starz, barz built for starz; So much fervor flooding the mic moving acros......

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Categories: handlebars, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Monorhyme



Killer Dog
... It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my......

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Categories: handlebars, friend, friendship, trust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stage Fright
...“Stage Fright” Where are my lights? My camera? My action? It's not supposed to be like this! I trained long enough for the stage, for stardom. I know I did. I just know what I did. I w......

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Categories: handlebars, anxiety, career, crazy, death,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Never Thought I Would
...Seems like not so long ago when we were kids Walking through the woods behind the park Playing cowboys and Indians, six guns on our hips Never coming home till after dark Morning would find us ......

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Categories: handlebars, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Bio



Premium Member The Tip
... At the end of the river's exhausted reach where swamp firmed into solid ground, there was a place the locals used as a tip. Broken, worn out stuff from clean outs, hoarded household effects......

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Categories: handlebars, childhood, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Without Handlebars
...Come out, come out, taste the bouquet! Flowers smell better tossed with stars; Tonight the fairies will come out to play; Riding the sky without handlebars the Fey’s toadstools delicately ring......

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Categories: handlebars, dream, emotions, flower, stars,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Repost today in honor of my 44th wedding anniversary
...Memorized His T-Shirt Your eyes I’d memorize, emotive brown. I think you memorized those lines, oh you… Tinged pink, the peaks of youth, don’t let me down. You knelt at my curve......

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Categories: handlebars, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My New Year's Resolution
...My New Year's resolution For twenty twenty-four Is the same old resolution That I made ten times before I vowed to stop eating junk food Like candy and all kinds of chips So, that I c......

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Categories: handlebars, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Call and Response Poetry Spares
...I quite enjoyed writing these two line poems for the Bantu contest - the idea of the call and response with two different statements but the same sensory response to each line. A bit like a game of M......

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Categories: handlebars, imagination,
Form: Imagism
The Man Who Hung the Stars
... March 19, 2023, is a day I will never forget, You see, that is the day that my Daddy left. Not in the way you may think. For he had gone to Heaven in a blink. ......

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Categories: handlebars, dad, death, family, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Movember
...Start to shape a moustache this time of year, handlebars, pencils, or lines from ear to ear, funny grins for volunteers, and charities will remember, a tidy growth every November......

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Categories: handlebars, allusion, giving, hair,
Form: Nonet
She Knew All the Moves
...she knew all the moves Queen's Gambit Sicilian Defense Bura's Desperado Sacrifice with her arms wrapping me we barreled the freeway racing headlong into the wind balanced on two wheels below ......

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Categories: handlebars, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Book of Scars Rondelet
...A book of scars tells the tale of a lively past; A book of scars falling off of my handlebars opens leaving me an outcast; Still, I am who I am if asked; A book of scars.......

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Categories: handlebars, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
Premium Member Memorized His T-Shirt
...Your eyes I’d memorize, emotive brown. I think you memorized those lines, oh you… Tinged pink, the peaks of youth, don’t let me down. You knelt at my curved knee to tie my shoe. ......

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Categories: handlebars, adventure, love,
Form: Sonnet

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