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Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
... “Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep” Following the Babel paths, where footprints progress like rough-hewn braille, temptation shows i......
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Candide Diderot
Categories:
highly strung,
muse,
Form:
Narrative
No More
...The slabbed ceiling tiles are becoming the patio slabs of my childhood home. I'm highly strung in more ways than one, trying to send my mind elsewhere, but half-buried memories insert themselves, s......
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Charlotte Puddifoot
Categories:
highly strung,
abuse, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Study in Charatcer
...A Study in Character My aunt…. wears jewellery that winks as she walks and she always has a sharp, shivery look that you pay attention to …just in case! She makes the world around her nervous......
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Ian Souter
Categories:
highly strung,
character, confidence, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Looking At Things From A Different Prospective
...I can understand Cowgirls And some are real cows But 'Cowboys'? Shouldn't they be Bullboys? Why did they call the chimp On Tarzan 'Cheater'? I wouldn't play cards Did Williams Tell spill the b......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
highly strung,
howl,
Form:
Free verse
The beatiful Pinups On My Wall Growing Up Rewrite
...When I was growing up I was so struck by the beauties I Saw on TV and in magazines I became obsessed with thinking about them One day I'll have one Maybe two or even more I wasn't too sure I'd......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
highly strung,
age, desire, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
This Sound You Are Making
...This sound you are making A fiddler plays. A screechy joy. If one That's highly strung! Did you know that? Know this. Boy, when a man Chopin's weepy keyboard A heart will hoard.......
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James Watkin
Categories:
highly strung,
sound, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
Unamerican
...I am not an American But I have got the hump Not with all Americans Mainly with D J Trump. He has muddled my thinking. And turned my reasoning upside down, And wiped the smile from my face, ......
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Shirley Hawkins
Categories:
highly strung,
10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Small Orange Tree
...so so you ! ! ! soft ......
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Kelly Davis
Categories:
highly strung,
halloween,
Form:
Concrete
Fun: I Dislike This Poem
..."He didn't return his shopping cart, He parked right over the line, And this guy doesn't use indicators at all, He drives as though he is blind," Are some of the things she points out in this t......
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Lewis Raynes
Categories:
highly strung,
funny,
Form:
Quatrain
A Convent Girl
...A CONVENT GIRL This is the girl, Who’s in a whirl, Who came to the, Convent, Looking despondent. This is the nun, Who’s highly strung, Who started to lecture, In spite, of her dentu......
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Jennifer Proxenos
Categories:
highly strung,
school, teen,
Form:
Couplet
The Highly Strung Maid
...There once was a highly strung society maid. Whose sole important passion was being afraid. She spent twenty-three years inside, From all kinds of people she'd hide. Barricaded by choices few oth......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
highly strung,
2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Limerick
What Has Become of You
...What has become of you? Evaporated like the morning dew Strange darkness clouds your hue What fuels this silent feud? Heavily this weighs on me Must I just let it be If silence is good enoug......
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Klio Tsitsikroni
Categories:
highly strung,
confusion, memory, missing you,
Form:
Sonnet
Despite the Bilboes of Casteism
...He could see her highly strung face Behind the cloaked veil A face taught to behold beautiful turbulent. He could feel the shiver in her timid heart And the fearful spasm Running down her spine.......
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Nayanika Dey
Categories:
highly strung,
love, marriage, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Cats
...Feline Highly strung Hidden weaponry afoot Pussy purr; sadistic slash ~ Masterstroke......
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Nigel Fawcett
Categories:
highly strung,
animal, nature, pets,
Form:
Cinquain
My Secret Affair
...Ever since I can remember it was love at first sight I'd put pinup on my bedroom wall and dream about them every night. I'd draw pictures in my school books and drooled when I saw one on TV T......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
highly strung,
humor, humorous, love,
Form:
Free verse
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