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Hock Poems - Poems about Hock

Premium MemberA Real Bloke's Shed

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Have you ever wondered what’s kept in a real blokes shed?
I bet you thought them full of junk, but I’m telling you instead.
I’ve had the privilege to peruse such a shed one night,
It’s owned by ...
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Categories: hock, friend, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Love Birds

...Moshpit Romance
two lovebird nerds
By:Bird's Eye View

The Peasant and Turkey
The horse and the Cow
churk and ah gimerro
Aurelius sow these seeds for me
in this rich Rio River mud
Aurelius 
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Categories: hock, america, character, chicago, film,
Form: Ballad



Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

min(no) newt effect on me.

As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish 
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.

With twenty ...
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Categories: hock, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Once again, yours truly takes poetic license

...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby...
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Categories: hock, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrailer Park

...After work at Google, I sat with the guys
I said we were elite, enlightened and wise
We had to censor those in this benighted nation
Who spread disruptive disinformation.

A Venture Cap named Ha...
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Categories: hock, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric



A Stone Alone?

...My anger grips my heart with hands of ice;
Cold fury makes my brow burn and perspire.
The things of value, things that have no price
Are being trashed and thrown into the fire.
False promises are...
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Categories: hock, anger, political,
Form: Sonnet

I lacked emotions where others concerned

...Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed it...
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Categories: hock, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberToday I’m Dreaming

...Thoughts, they float on rivers,
they roam anywhere at all,
a joyful heart has risen,
invitation from the dawn,
misty eye reflection caught,
on early morning camera,
picture this upon a bridge,
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Categories: hock, art, beauty, birth, celebration,
Form: Verse

Seek Shelter

...As the heavy droplets of rain fell on the path,
I could do nothing but laugh.
It amused me to see the tiny ants, scatter.
As one after the other wondered what was the matter.

They scurried alon...
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Categories: hock, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Ma's Soup

...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.'

Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out.

'Better wash your hands, now'.

The armchair smothered his glee.

Wallaby faggots, 

Brown rice juices,

L...
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Categories: hock, appreciation, drink, family, farm,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Hoof Choice

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Written: November 07, 2023
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Am I condoning a state of affluence?
In recent desultory decadence
Have I drawn a swan dive of choice?
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Categories: hock, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Strip Before the Styx

...Charon demands us to disrobe
Sell your layers for coins
Some with less have more to trade
Better than becoming chained ghosts
Our suits and dresses tie us down
Being nude again will be sobering
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Categories: hock, addiction, death, depression, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetic Podcast Episode 13

...The gentleman turned to me distraught;
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,
“Had to park my wheels, can’t pay my bills.”

Another victim of a repeating pattern,
back to our old ways we learned...
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Categories: hock, emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Pawned Her Ring

...She pawned her ring
    went into hock
  Sold her long hair
    went into shock

  Took to the streets
    with naught to eat
  Just a smidgen of dope
    and a cup of hope

  Tried to beg
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Categories: hock, hope, money, poverty, sad,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLet Me Entertain You

...vaudeville stepped off the stage
and leapt into the living room
with hot topic-tuned antenna views

shy ventriloquists turned from radio
to television with a vision to be seen

juggling with e...
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Categories: hock, children, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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