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Handshakes Poems - Poems about Handshakes

The Draw breaks Bazball Law

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According to Bazball law, deplore the days of yore, hell bent..ignore what went before

Why even mull over a tie..cull every dull lull…do or die super nova…run rates soar…can chase whatever they ...
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Categories: handshakes, sports,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe World Is Bleeding

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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 MemberThe 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 MemberUntitled

...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 MemberHAPPY 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 MemberIf

...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

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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 Membersearching 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 MemberAbracadabra 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 MemberHandshakes

...Foundation of a friendship agreement or departure...
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Categories: handshakes, emotions,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberThe 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

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