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Hangnail Poems - Poems about Hangnail


Premium Member comparison is carnage by another name
... comparison is a pickpocket plucking joy from my handbag I have been compared to countless things and things that cannot be counted, or counted on mostly fair assessments of character only a h......

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Categories: hangnail, age, anxiety, confidence, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intermission Fool - Cafeteria Monitor
...Can I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of thei......

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Categories: hangnail, 10th grade, allegory, food,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member A Man In Pain
...I had to take my Uncle Jakey to the emergency room, no doubt. He was screaming and wailing so loudly we scared crows on the route. Is she having a baby? An elderly woman with no eyesight asked. I......

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Categories: hangnail, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hobbled
... May we ever make amends my friends? Once a hobo tears you to the bone Facing now a fiery end all deaf to tone No atonement chanced while all defiled Set to fighting on a flag proje......

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Categories: hangnail, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Program Murder
...confounded, confused cliffhanger, like a hangnail unpleasant when there’s no icing a program diet stamping my feet “it had a cult following” who can resist the pie man a charming, untoucha......

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Categories: hangnail, murder,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Day Off For Abigail
...A cocktail waitress named Abigail Moonlighting as a barmaid serving pale ale Wore her hair in a pigtail or sometimes in a ponytail All night long drinking naught but ginger ale With patrons c......

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Categories: hangnail, adventure, break up, fun,
Form: Monorhyme
Blue Heart
...He longs to be near her He longs for her kiss He longs for touch His heart is no longer red It turned blue Because it filled with hurt and pain It’s hard for him to see her Because they live......

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Categories: hangnail, hurt, love hurts,
Form: Verse
The Verse Is Mightier Than the Whole
...the pen, soulless, stilled with chewed cap, and emptied cartridge, as my yen burns like an addict's fire, palm sweat on parchment, syllables, prosody, sans serif mind flow, while demure mu......

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Categories: hangnail, inspiration, muse,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Nothing
...No response To my emails Your name’s not in queue I pull off a hangnail Ripping skin too 7/9/11 Received 6th place in "any poem goes" contest......

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Categories: hangnail, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Tanka
A Garden In the Sky
...A Garden In The Sky—by Michael Anthony Butler I positioned myself by the pool at some hip-posh happening hotel on the sultry Sunset Strip in L.A. The adolescent afternoon is hot and fussy.......

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Categories: hangnail, imaginationme, me,
Form: Free verse

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