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Inching Poems - Poems about Inching

Premium Member Hope
...Hope sat beside me, she took me by the hand, She whispered her encouragement then wrote love in the sand. Despair came inching closer, all ready for the fight, But love who stood right next to m......

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Categories: inching, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member my sneaky boobs
...My boobs are sneaky inching themselves toward the floor they were once firm and perky now they are flabby giant jello blobs stretching toward ground zero whether I am looking or not do I care? ......

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Categories: inching, me,
Form: Free verse



The Man and his Dog
...They walked very slowly, The man and his pet; The dog, with a harness, Was ailing and yet Each morning I’d see them, Both inching along, The limbs maybe weak But the life force still strong.......

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Categories: inching, dog, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Heart, Felled as a Tree
...Deprived of your love I become a will-o-the-wisp, a ghostlike entity, whose illumination has faded with the echoing of your final word, "Goodbye." Not a daunting wisp of the shimmering kind, nor ......

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Categories: inching, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey, It's Cafe Jazz
...Snapping fingers, a low hum in the microphone) Hey, It's Café Jazz/ But we ain't just sipping black coffee and snapping our fingers in polite applause/ Talkin' Bop/ first idiom where being white ......

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Categories: inching, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Held Together Like Daisy Chains
...pluck me like a ripened fruit from the garden that the sun shone on early in the morning and you would sigh in relief at the harvest because i was good to you see me as fondly as the first buds......

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Categories: inching, emotions, fate, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Riddles on Brambled Path
... Written: January 24, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the galumph of morning breath a chandelier of dew, Barely i......

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Categories: inching, analogy, cute love, nature,
Form: Free verse
nakedly afraid of the truth
...your footsteps beat with lightning and thunder inching closer with each bolt as i feel your figure at my feet i don’t dare turn my shoulder for you might be there with black soulless eyes a cle......

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Categories: inching, abuse, anxiety, body, break
Form: Free verse
The eyes and soul never lie
...When i look into another's eyes I can see their soul All their worries All their troubles And all their pain Even all their scars It's a story that hasn't been shown or told truthfully We......

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Categories: inching, care, courage, cute love,
Form: Free verse
the GAUD poems
...Poems from "the GAUD poems" and "the ur poems"... & GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!” —michael r. burch reverse the Curse with LIGHT VERSE! r......

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Categories: inching, bible, christian, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twilight a song
...The Twilight (C) 2024 Artimus The Poet - Susan Manley All Rights Reserved Musical Introduction [Verse] Over the mountains the purple comes rolling lit like a backdrop silhouette glowing So......

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Categories: inching, earth, life, sunset,
Form: Lyric
Sharon
...Sharon by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15 apologies to Byron I. Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks, dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight; I have seen your shadow creep through eeri......

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Categories: inching, beauty, body, hair, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jack and Jill - The True Story
... * Examples for the contest Jack and Jill (the real story) "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after..."...

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Categories: inching, humor,
Form: Narrative
Advice to Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......

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Categories: inching, light, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Let Sweat Flood the Halls
...Water builds in the ends of fingers and toes It’s always there first Rising, filling up, inching closer to the heart To the core of dreaded distant thoughts Like a water balloon Expanding, rea......

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Categories: inching, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

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