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Hooped Poems - Poems about Hooped

Echoes of a Victorian Christmas

...Men in tailored suits 
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking 
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm 
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped, 
crinolined, 
elegantly sculpted.

Their tigh...
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Categories: hooped, christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAs The Last Petal Falls

...I recline with my cherry tree musings…

a fount of blossoms  cherub cheek colored
rise and curve from the ground 
up into a heaven-and-cloud scene  
to spread in splendor  a festoon of blooms 
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Categories: hooped, appreciation, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse



Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: hooped, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality

...Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality

Countdown to homelessness – 
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register 
pyrrhic victory won.

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Categories: hooped, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.

Sentimentali...
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Categories: hooped, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



The Unlikely Friendship of Chalk and Cheese

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Chalk was bold, pale skinned, and big boned.
A soft souled, porous, sedentary teen.
Bulky, he made a big initial impression,
but seemed to lack in true substance.
And thus, was a tempor...
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Categories: hooped, analogy, anti bullying, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNate Sestina's Sestina

...Sometimes things don’t work out as planned
not that Nate planned it, such is basketball love
and strong are the threads of the basketball net. 
He hooped all summer, sweating on outdoor court 
be...
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Categories: hooped, basketball, dream, life,
Form: Sestina

Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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

Premium MemberGreat Blue

...great blue heron stood
in flint river statuesque....
children hooped, threw rocks  ...
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Categories: hooped, nature,
Form: Haiku

Craziest Time Among Strangers

...It was mid-April yet felt like December
we tramped a rocky trail in the Himalayas,
our footsteps echoed in the enchanting valley
under the blanket of warm twinkling stars.

Snow-clad peaks seeme...
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Categories: hooped, journey, memory, mountains, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBambi's Born

...excessive rain impoverished the orchards, apples have fell, deer fed 
a cock-a-hooped doe ~ now survives the harsh winter ~ two fawn play joyful  



Ku Duet Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Silen...
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Categories: hooped, nature, night,
Form: Haiku

Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Juiced tin he nuff tame afore
thee Saint Patrick's Day,
(hens this faux written accent
donned to sail hub berate won big todo
fur those peep pull o' Ei...
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Categories: hooped, absence, birth, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Bio

The Train Called Love

...I think about you 
 morning noon night 
 I don't think you know
 how much 
 I miss you 
 Each and every day
 I wonder how my life
 will be with you 
 Now that I had a chance
 to think about ...
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Categories: hooped, love,
Form: Verse

Autumn Among the Stones

...I sit among the stones under a lowering October sky, longing to see more than others have seen,

And tarry where the hurried have passed.

And sit, remembering streets of earth, and hooped

Bla...
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Categories: hooped, autumn, gothic,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberSweet Times

...Sweet Times

Sweet is the taste of days from yesteryear
that haunt the heart so keenly they bring tears
to eyes which have seen sadness, joy and pain
as time passed on and age ceased not to ...
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Categories: hooped, age, memory,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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