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Hunched Poems - Poems about Hunched

Premium Member A Whisper Into the Kitchen Floor
...He tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear He'd always been a staggering man Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy Now he's a staggered man This night, curved and hunched ......

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Categories: hunched, bereavement, death, grief, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member OLD FRUIT
...You are getting on, old fruit Too obese to wear your new suit Your face resembles a wrinkled prune Old age is showing on you too soon, What has happened to your lustrous hair Your scalp is shi......

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Categories: hunched, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Storm Water Pipe
... The storm water pipe gaped into open air from an embankment where it surfaced from underground. The opening was a little smaller than my childhood height and they said it stretched a mil......

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Categories: hunched, childhood, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, sea, autumn wind, harvest moon, dark, darkness, dawn, day, life. First of autumn: the sea and the rice fields the same green hue. ......

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Categories: hunched, autumn, dark, day, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Black Umbrella Afternoon
...Scary people are everywhere weaving through backbones of rain-soaked roads taillight burning A holes in my balding white walls. Scary people in endless grocery store lines carts filled with poiso......

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Categories: hunched, life,
Form: Free verse



Chronic Pain
...Please tell the world — pain is real, It doesn’t vanish, it doesn’t heal. Some may smile and say “you’ll mend,” But this is a war that will never end. Chronic pain doesn’t come-and-go, It’s in......

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Categories: hunched, body, cry, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lede Buried, in I Fell
... I bowed for the story line. Hunched over in suspense, I hung-out for the punch line. The twists of plot lured me to the edge. I could see the lede lying buried below me. Reaching in to grab ......

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Categories: hunched, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Steam Radiator
...The radiator whispered like breath beneath the old window (half opened for mercy) where cold fingers of air braided themselves with steam and the snow stayed only for seconds da......

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Categories: hunched, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
View from a Blind Laptop
...This morning one songbird awoke first, breaking the night with its spiral tongue. Under an oak tree a puddle bloomed stars, then washed its face with a watery light. Moments later, a narrow ......

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Categories: hunched, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Why Your Cities Burn, Part II
......Finally Gobayth came to a devastated mountainside, the trees and soil stripped away, slaves cutting out blocks of great size. They led him to a wooden hut where several gold coins were exchan......

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Categories: hunched, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
the bridge
...the bridge In the middle of the bridge, we leaned on its railing and looked into the slimy, green, and slow running stream. Its bank, decorated with plastic bottles, used condoms, a long-sin......

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Categories: hunched, abortion, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC
Now the lamplight flickers
...I’ve bloomed well past blossom season, no fleshy pink petals here. Wrinkles appear now. Feet left by crow. You see the grey in the brown, see a patch of scalp showing. You see the change in my g......

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Categories: hunched, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The unspoken
...In the solemn fortitude Of a square box, I sat at a 90-degree angle, Hunched,head between my knees. What went so amiss? My lofty heart cannot fathom. My head is in shambles. Whence do I turn? ......

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Categories: hunched, angst, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Dust
..."It's just dust," he said, kicking the dry ground With a worn boot, Toe pointed cowboy style But with none of the flash. "This could be grandpa," he said, Shoulders rounded, eyes to the ground. ......

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Categories: hunched, family, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Paid
... The thing about killing Angels you have to remember is always go for the kill shot Most of them can easily take a grenade to the face Those arch ones usually stay put and watch Basically on tap......

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Categories: hunched, america, poems,
Form: Free verse

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