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Jawbones Poems - Poems about Jawbones

Premium MemberInherited Jawbones

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I’ve taken up polishing skulls.
Not trophies, 
just my kin—
their sockets still 
echoing
what they aren't 
ready to hear.
Though it's only 
what they've said 
themselves.

I never knew 
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Categories: jawbones, family,
Form: Free verse

Learn From The Ant

...He work day and night
Labor food through its jawbones
Share love for his queen....
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Categories: jawbones, love, power, work,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberWild Is the Night

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Wild Is the Night

Night wakes
In atonality of imploding infernos
Stretches,
Toss...
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Categories: jawbones, angst, night, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse

Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles

...Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches 
global threat half cocked.

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttime...
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Categories: jawbones, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht

...Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countles...
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Categories: jawbones, abuse, angst, bullying, environment,
Form: Rhyme



A Civil War Battleground

...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories: jawbones, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Civil War Battlefield

...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories: jawbones, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Energy

...You have burnt the energy out of me so that you can be happy
You have burnt the courage out of me so that you can go on a shopping spree, you have burnt the energy out of me to fulfill your ruthless...
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Categories: jawbones, character, city, community, desire,
Form: Narrative

A Civil War Battlefield

...The field is given a name.
Battles are about where they disappear,
the ones that walk away 
don't know where the hell they are.

There’s a cannon ball under that Yew tree,
there’s a sku...
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Categories: jawbones, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Four O Clock

...Everyone has his four o’clock there is no doubt about that
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he wears a cowboy’s hat
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he roams around in a bureaucrat’s fe...
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Categories: jawbones, autumn, character, community, corruption,
Form: Narrative

Snow White 2016- Once Upon a Time

...Once upon a time
In a vast kingdom of Modern land
Oddly not in a far far a way suburban
Was there a pretty girl
Prettier than the Venus, some claimed
Softer than petals of rose, maids alleged

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Categories: jawbones, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWatching Homer Struggle

...Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain

and the humor when that god
complains to Jove that His supervision of His dau...
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Categories: jawbones, blue, daughter, father, jewish,
Form: Free verse

Wounded

...In the night, in the darkness
That is when it happens
My thoughts turn dark, heavy
Sodden 
Tasting like wet soot

Trying to fight off
The familiar melancholy
Forcing ruminations of contentmen...
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Categories: jawbones, angst, animal, depression, freedom,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberA Cowpuncher Jawbones With His Horse

...I reckon to us city dudes an' ordinary blokes it seems somewhat strange,
But a cowpoke an' his horse become pards when ridin' the lonely range!
Pausin' fer a roll-yer-own under a ponderosa after a ...
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Categories: jawbones, cowboy-western, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

Jawbone of An Ass

...O to stand upon an emerald place
A see the rage on Samson's face
That handome Goliath on Israel's side
Wielding a jawbone for stolen bride
What a picture of the rasta dread
What an elation over ...
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Categories: jawbones, imagination
Form: Verse

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