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Handshakes Poems - Poems about Handshakes

Premium Member The World Is Bleeding
... who's got a tourniquet? the world bleeds out of her limb. she's anemic. the ship of world peace has sailed; existential chaos reigns supreme. recourse to arms now the go-to solu......

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Categories: handshakes, angst, death, horror, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Mini Poppadoms
...Mini Poppadoms Intensive can you hear the intensity Mr freeze step aside I have flies and they are my new friends The crackle of the snow,whip and blow The cackle of the crow,the man taking t......

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Categories: handshakes, drug, flying, humanity, snow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Sunshine Singers Come to Play
...In dribs and drabs, in fits and starts, the elders slowly congregate; in the common room of the seniors' home, they patiently sit and wait. Some are wheeled in, some simply shuffle in orderly fa......

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Categories: handshakes, age, appreciation, celebration, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
I Flew the International Route
...I flew the international route Had an epiphany, no doubt Surrounded, the mix of folks Of ages, languages, life walks What if we suddenly can share One intellection, maybe pair? A story from ......

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Categories: handshakes, culture, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Leaving Memories
...I will not go away completely When it’s my time and curtain call Continue, ever-so-discreetly Like someone’s writing on the wall I get to linger in emails And links I sent, with silly jokes A......

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Categories: handshakes, leaving, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Untitled
...glib smiles and handshakes empty promises and lies you offer false hope evil intent is hidden your true soul is well disguised ......

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Categories: handshakes, how i feel,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member HAPPY MMXXV !!!
...Maybe if we feed the hungry, the homeless will have no reason to starve. Maybe if we house the homeless, strangers and long-lost friends won’t have to freeze on park benches. ......

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Categories: handshakes, celebration, new year,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If
...If it be lunatics rule half this world And power mad despots tread where they please If tyrant’s fists raised, leave no toe uncurled And civilised nations fail to appease If Reds share handsha......

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Categories: handshakes, conflict, destiny, war,
Form: Sonnet
Both Sides
... I look across our nation wide … saddened by the view Hopes and dreams in shattered heaps Smoldering and askew. Trust is lost, alliance gone, Handshakes no longer known Doubt and suspicion t......

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Categories: handshakes, loss, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
What Do We Do With Malevolent Evil People
...they’re out there, driving Cadillacs, counting their money like dead fish, smoking cigars that curl up in the air like snakes. they don’t give a damn about your pain, your hunger, your rent o......

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Categories: handshakes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member searching for manna in tent city
...They used to put the mentally unstable away for their own good and for the good of society they say. Society evolved and said NO! this is wrong. So, they closed the institutions releasing the unst......

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Categories: handshakes, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abracadabra Day
...Forget-me-nots share sighs of For-Heaven-sake's, from boulevards to avenues, the streets -- speak. City park use strengthens, as the day lengthens. Doves charming swarms of drakes, tetheri......

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Categories: handshakes, life, nature, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Handshakes
...Foundation of a friendship agreement or departure......

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Categories: handshakes, emotions,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The pasture
...The pasture ahead torn in half Trees growing tightly together in the distance The undulating ground beckoning your entrance The trees left and right in your perriferal The barren land Could be ......

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Categories: handshakes, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We are the people of a new era, with patchwork hearts and longings in craters
...We are the people of a new era, with patchwork hearts and longings in craters, The generation of bold dreams sketched on shards of fallen stars. Let us not forget, let us breathe in: the source of ......

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Categories: handshakes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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