Home » Poems » Hiccupped

Hiccupped Poems

Shuffling Through

...
Inspired by the Onomatopoeia Contest (2024), sponsored by Emile Pinet.

Mid-day invaded my spirits with blah. 
I sauntered the path to the coffee shop
and heard my friends blab...

Categories: hiccupped, drink, onomatopoeia, words,
Form: Quatrain

Hiccups

...Hiccups 

An involuntary spasm 
of the diaphragm 
and respiratory organs, 
with a sudden closure 
of the glottis 
and a characteristic 
sound like that of a cough.

Rather mundane topic 
l...

Categories: hiccupped, 12th grade, anxiety, blue,
Form: Rhyme

Ignoring People On a Poetry Site

...I thought I had maybe clicked to ignore six or seven poets on another site. 
Being open minded, and flexible, I was horrified to see
I actually had blocked fourteen people 
who had irritated me at...

Categories: hiccupped, poetry, self, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tinkrbelle and Trixie

...Tinkerbelle invited muse Trixie to join her at the Martini Lounge tonight
They both had too much to drink, ended up sassy, and quite tight.
Some randy elves tried to pick them up, but they said no ...

Categories: hiccupped, fairy, muse,
Form: Rhyme

Atonement

...over a broken glass vase
  burst a little boy's heart
pitiable sobs, hiccupped cries
  punctuated by a flow of tears...

Categories: hiccupped, boy, cry,
Form: Free verse

Osu Caste

...I don't know when these lines ran off my shouldering lips this morning...
but I guessed they are spirit and being,
home and forest, evil and sorrow. 
I don't know that men are made of
two spirits...

Categories: hiccupped, africa, art,
Form: Free verse

Parenthood a Gift

...Nine months I carried and waited
for you to come into the world
so I could hold you in my arms.

I knew you were in my womb when
my moods changed and certain smells made
me nauseated sending me...

Categories: hiccupped, birth, child, love, mother,
Form: Bio

Cowards

...I once met a drunken man there
Under the shade of the calabash tree
With a gourd of wine downed to the lees.
He said to me when I came up:

See, see my friend, I tell you
From that yonder villa...

Categories: hiccupped, character, courage, crazy, judgement,
Form: Blank verse

The Publican and the Pharisee

...The Publican and the Pharisee went for a walk after church
One wore pride and majesty, the other the marks of the birch
“I say, my man,” said the Pharisee, “will you tell if I come to the pub?”
“N...

Categories: hiccupped, bible, drink, gospel, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Inheritance

...Mother England surrogated me
And O her white breast was sweet
Honey on my tongue muting misery
While banana trash tied my feet

She stripped me naked in her bed
No culture clothe me from winter...

Categories: hiccupped, historymother, england, me, mother,
Form: Quatrain

Your Friend

...My eyeballs saw you and sent you to my stomach
My stomach hiccupped up to my mouth and made it smile
My mouth blabbed to my brain but my brain said
..."wait"
To my heart, who felt too much for tw...

Categories: hiccupped, friendshipheart, heart,
Form: I do not know?