Hanger On Poems


The feelings we feel

...Happiness  is like waking up to see 
my favourite dishes for breakfast;
toasted bread and fried  eggs.
Getting to school early and scoring As on all my tests.

Then I come home after a long stre...
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Categories: hanger on, 8th grade, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNosy Hanger-On

...snoopy
groupie...
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Categories: hanger on, word play,
Form: Footle


Premium MemberAnywhere but here

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I am empty of empathy
come sympathise with me
Cue the violins,
or just fiddle
like a bad-tempered Roman

Offer me hope:
bring flamboyant symbols,
cheap gold pendants with wings
Maybe a b...
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Categories: hanger on, how i feel, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTRI Break Up Advice

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When dealing with a love-sick fool
One must be strict and must be strong
And follow this one simple rule
Don't let them be a hanger-on

One must be strict and must be strong
To bring such f...
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Categories: hanger on, funny love, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

What Difference

...Placing

Not

Placement

So what's the difference

Substance, credibility and respect
i suppose

As only 1 as an individual
places with no regard for
critical acclaim

Whereas other's ...
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Categories: hanger on, slam,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFrom Host To the Hanger-On

...(edited for spelling typo)

I feel you burrowed down so deeply deep
I can't define that place where you reside.
You nag at me and keep me from my sleep.
I turn to left; then to the other side.
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Categories: hanger on, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet

Tubby Bye Bye

...Farewell, Tinky Winky
You were purple, with a red
Handbag in your tinky hands
And hanger on your head
And you taught a generation
To say 'Uh Oh' to the sky
Tubby Bye Bye Tinky
Tubby Bye

© G...
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Categories: hanger on, character, death, goodbye, innocence,
Form: Rhyme

Drone

...Speedier than lickety-split
Ready to jump tall structures in a hit
More powerful than an electric bolt 
In a solitary bounding jolt

Look up in the sky! 
It's a creature, lowly flying high
Thi...
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Categories: hanger on, technology,
Form: Quatrain

The Beat Generation

...It's the beat era
It's beat of the heat
It's beat deep to keep 
It's beat start of the heart 
It's beat frown and beaten down

It's the beat generation fascination
It's beat truth of the youth...
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Categories: hanger on, beauty, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Tribute To a Major Appliance

...Dear Fridge, you’re getting up in years. Oh, my!
How many now? You must be twenty-five!
The dishwasher already I’ve seen die.
How ever have YOU managed to survive?

Sir Oven also is a ha...
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Categories: hanger on, humor,
Form: Sonnet

Your Mercy Sent To My Front Porch

...Struck by lightning – 
Writer’s block
I came to believe that I have a hard time sorting out my thoughts into each file…
Into eloquent verses and the pain worsens...
As I see paper flying all around m...
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Categories: hanger on, confusion, dedication, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse

Break Apart

...I just need a rest 
So, I can pass the test…
God will do the rest
God will do the rest, 
So no worries…
Get down upon your knees
Say please, Lord…
Help us lift up a sword
And fight out all th...
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Categories: hanger on, depression, fear, sad,
Form: Free verse

Heart That Didn'T Break Apart Part 1

...I just need a rest 
So, I can pass the test…
God will do the rest
God will do the rest, 
So no worries…
Get down upon your knees
Say please, Lord…
Help us lift up a sword
And fight out all th...
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Categories: hanger on,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLike a Timex

...Through lickings, like a Timex, my husband’s hard-core.
Evermore, heart ticking, he goes on.
They don’t make his model any more.

Not cut out for college, he gathered lore
in his craft; h...
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Categories: hanger on, husband,
Form: Villanelle
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