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Hiccupping Poems

Purple Bliss

...
White butterflies flap 
around the plump blooms
of a buddleia bush, heady
on nectar and a rush
of perfume from the thick
clusters of purple flowers.
They seem quite drunk,
roused in number t...

Categories: hiccupping, butterfly, life, nature, purple,
Form: Free verse

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: hiccupping, 12th grade, anxiety, blue,
Form: Rhyme

Yummm Soupsoap-

...I had a cup of soup;
It was made of soap;
So my mouth, throat, and stomach was clean;
Hiccupping bubbles it seemed;
Then I woke up on the bathroom floor;
As my little puppy was lickin...

Categories: hiccupping, adventure, allusion, analogy, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Meeting Mafioso Cat

...What did you say Punk?  I was horrified; my heart fell with a clunk.
It was the ultimate hoodiest craziest out-of-control king. Mafioso Cat.
He is usually the last one people see before they land i...

Categories: hiccupping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Nocturnal Rhapsody

...Without belching
or hiccupping misty smoke,
the waiting sea
swallowed the setting sun;
up popped the bright
mirror-ball moon. 

The quiet sky sprinkled its self
with twinkling stars
as the r...

Categories: hiccupping, beauty, metaphor, moon, night,
Form: Prose Poetry

Frame

...They’ve found a body in my back yard. I
imagine what a dead house would look 
like. A stillborn Brownstone with its Jurassic 
sandstone hiccupping fossils and family 
feuds. Terrace houses would ...

Categories: hiccupping, analogy, bereavement, body,
Form: Personification

Do You Remember

...do you remember
when our children
danced in circles
wings spread
not a clue of future
dint we kill their
originality for
conformity
without a care laughing
water falls
whistling hiccupping
...

Categories: hiccupping, allusion,
Form: I do not know?

Midnight Mass, St John's

...Church on Christmas Eve
Experience of spirit
Secular delight

Candles flickering
Stirred by one communal breath
Casting bright shadows

The choir whispering
Mournful cadenced melodies
That ...

Categories: hiccupping, christian, christmas, community, confusion,
Form: Senryu

The Alchemy of Sugar Cookies

...On strange days
like these
baking cookies
is an arcane art.
 For it is winter outside
how we transform
the inside
into mystic summer.

For i know the golden ratio.
i have surrounded
myself with gradu...

Categories: hiccupping, art, fantasy, food, religion,
Form: Free verse

The Oracle At Tibetan Stok Monastery-W

...“Patients, carefully wash your hands and mouth
As the spirits are offended by our smells
And get yourself clean of the defilements”
Thus Matho announced the arrival of the **Dakini
To the séance ...

Categories: hiccupping, religion,
Form: Narrative