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Hang Back Poems - Poems about Hang Back

Premium Member FLASH FOOTLE
... FLASH FOOTLE hang back miss flack......

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Categories: hang back, internet, social, word play,
Form: Footle
June's heart is grief
...You used to like me, what's happened now? Ever since June, you've been so blue. Stressing over nothing at all? A one sided drama, a small conflict? Is that all? I say hi, but you don'......

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Categories: hang back, age, angel, birthday, child,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My New Years Resolution For 2022
...In 2022 I resolve to be less accommodating. Not the first one to yell “I will do it”, often putting everyone else’s needs before my own. I resolve to become aware when I am being taken advantage o......

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Categories: hang back, new year,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conform To the Norm
...My Baby: Don't be too quiet, yet don't be too shrill, Don't be too restless, but neither too still, Please grow up hardy, yet soft to the touch, Not seeking too little, nor asking too much. Ye......

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Categories: hang back, baby, child, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
Actions Speak
...I’ve never been what you’d call outspoken; my approach is to hang back and take note. Perceiving injustice my heart cried, “Quit!” Fearful, I lingered, silence unbroken. Unwilling, my voice stay......

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Categories: hang back, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Curtal Sonnet



Premium Member Reverberation
...The spring on the door reverberates. Freedom of the outdoors, a chill in Spring air. Minecraft becomes an imaginary sport. Boys swinging wooden branches - their swords, smacking the bark of ......

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Categories: hang back, animal, fun, kid,
Form: Prose
The Shape-Shifting Cowboy, Part I
...Jenna lived in rural Wyoming lands, where grass rolled over small ridges and buttes, a small town way out in the cow country, where the ranchers still throw lassos in loops. She was driving out......

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Categories: hang back, earth, freedom, journey, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Family Remembers, Part Ii
...II-Marie It was two full days after this charade when Marie was told the grim news, her ex-husband had been shanked in prison, killed by two illegal alien youths. When she went down to the f......

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Categories: hang back, anger, dark, divorce, family,
Form: Narrative
Just Call To Say Hello
...J-ust call to say hello, E-arly first of February; N-ever hesitate to ring up, N-or hang back to text me. C-all to say hello, A-fter your sweet slumber; L-et the morning be free O-f vil......

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Categories: hang back, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Revenge Doesn'T Bleed
...So, you stand there over me You breathe the cold, clean air Knowing that no one will ever see You killed the truth with lies They believed what you wanted them to believe You never really knew......

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Categories: hang back, absence, abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
All Puffed Up
...All puffed up, ducks, swans and goose fluffed feathers on the loose, afterfeathers clinging to open flagged wings strutting as they move and sing. Smaller birds hang back and low ......

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Categories: hang back, bird, flying,
Form: Rhyme
To An Inebriant
...I cannot be caretaker to you self-medicated, altering perceptive fields by choice seeking to numb the pain, escape mundane routine circumvent natural boredom that could instruct straight life is ......

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Categories: hang back, addiction, drink, family, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Ode For Zante
...I had not long lost Shona (German Shepherd) and was not sure because of my age and disabilities if I should get another when my daughter spotted an advert . I thought long and hard and having always......

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Categories: hang back, dog, missing you, obituary,
Form: Narrative
Pretty
...Funny How some people are. He can go up to a girl, and say, "You're so pretty." While I hang back, Or watch from the lobby of the bar. I wait until it is all over. Mind you, she might have a big ass,......

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Categories: hang back, dream
Form: Free verse
Finding a Fifth
...Each step I take draws to the abyss, as I get closer I hang back from the lip Finding a squat I kneel on the ground, closing my eyes to feel in the sound A whistle of wind draws me ......

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Categories: hang back, fantasy, mystery, nature
Form: Verse

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