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Jawed Poems - Poems about Jawed

Ghost in a Snail Shell
...In the alleys of mirrors, reflections stare back with faces I've yet to covet. The cacophony of screams and whispers, a post-coital slack-jawed pause, the aftermath of endless nights and getting lost......

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Categories: jawed, art, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Roots of September
...In raw dawn I emerge crow-thoughts pecking skull-bone black as plowed earth. Farm-stench floods – dung, hay and blood – primal musk of life and death intertwined. Yet in this first ......

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Categories: jawed, farm, life, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Cling
...At the moor's edge where the cliff-drop gnaws the wind and a jutting ledge raises it hackles, fingers scrabble, skinned toes curl within stiff-jawed boots. Turn an ankle here, and you may fal......

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Categories: jawed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dovetail
...The angels are overloaded. And I'm crying aloud. In marketplaces. In new frontiers. Sobbing incongruously From station to station. Losing my past And letting the present Run off without me. ......

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Categories: jawed, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why
... Why By Miracle Man 5/31/2024 Oft times I hear a child question why? Then anxiously await a response. To, why raindrops always fall from the sky, I stand slack jawed as if in a traun......

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Categories: jawed, child, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Dorthea and the Dalmatian
...Raise your hand if you were surprised The day we met Dorthea in her beautiful high rise. She had turned into a Dalmatian which she always wanted to be. And she was rather beautiful, as she poured ......

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Categories: jawed, animal, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Cling
...Head buried beneath the wind, hung, grasping an overhang, hug the thin bones of wiry tussocks. At the moor's edge where the cliff-drop, gnaws at the sky, a jutting ledge raises it hackles, fi......

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Categories: jawed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
...The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth Sent my smooching life south, whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, who kissed the girls and made them cry. The medical term for c......

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Categories: jawed, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
...silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick regarding how yesterdays prurient laced introductions to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows. Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further, I inject ......

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Categories: jawed, absence, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Electoral Lament
...Lament the clumsy stumble bum who bungles his debut By mumbling his monologue and missing every cue. He wanders freely off his mark and often flubs his lines. His timing’s unpredictable. His rhyth......

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Categories: jawed, allegory, america, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Chutes and Ladders
...Ivy-covered sheepskin, firmly in hand the confident graduate, square-jawed and tan Pulled offers from prestigious start-ups all over the land a year later he played lead guitar, hat in......

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Categories: jawed, career, confidence, education, poverty,
Form: Couplet
Tales of the Bone
...Skull where is your brain, where inside this abandoned cave is your mind? Did God leave you like this your jaw open in that crazy grin the wind echoing under your cracked dome? There are field......

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Categories: jawed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sunday In the Queen of the West
...A slack jawed drunk thugs his way toward a down-town bar and grill. Red lights over sizzling steaks add flames to his eyes. Cincinnati on a Sunday morning trashes its streets cold wi......

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Categories: jawed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
...Roman à clef tragicomedy... overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf in summer re: typed out during winter of my discontent, when yours truly no spring chicken stirred ruse to expatiate po......

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Categories: jawed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
...Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior automatically linkedin with Lothario; an unscrupulous seducer of women, based upon a charact......

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Categories: jawed, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme

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