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Knapsack Poems - Poems about Knapsack

Premium Memberpretty brick a brack on the old shack

...Pretty brick-a-brack on the old shack
across the porch all the way to the back
delighting Zack who has a design knack
next to the door was a fire place plaque

I looks like rickrack said my cous...
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Categories: knapsack, house,
Form: Monorhyme

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...Sexually explicit meme more real day

originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously, 
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head 
to gnarly nails of 
(this ...
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Categories: knapsack, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse



Cornerstone In The Building

...The cornerstone turned the corner
reading a map without
ever looking back
A nomad with knapsack in tow
sowed seeds without 
worrying if they'd
ever grow
For them it's just a show but
for me t...
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Categories: knapsack, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPanoramic

...He said ‘Saving the world’s in your hands.
Look how you sparkle, see how you shine?
So crucial the poet understands,
what pours out of your pores is so fine.’

Upon hearing those words I fell ba...
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Categories: knapsack, emotions, introspection, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Pre-Determined Donkeys

...Donkeys are known for their sheer stubborness;
determination beyond compare.
I see three "saints" for donkeys, nonetheless -
Mary's transport to Bethlehem's square
and Balaam's unique donkey, qui...
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Categories: knapsack, animal, appreciation, bible,
Form: Quintain (English)



Our Civilization Collapsed

...A new day
Without the sonorous 
Songs of songbirds 
And the bustle 
Of busy humans and animals.

The sun struggled to rise,
Struggled to shine,
Weighed down
By the dark couds of July.

The...
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Categories: knapsack, computer, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSomewhere On Foot Part One

...I peered deeply into a water trickling  dyke clustered by pale blue and green peebles.
“Oh dear I sometimes dig too deep or maybe not diffidently.
Damon Deep thinker, lost in thought type.”
There ...
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Categories: knapsack, beautiful, character, city, deep,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberTed wants a Knapsack not a Backpack

...Mommy, I do not want a backpack
I want a polka-dotted red knapsack
this annoyed Ted’s father, big Max
All kinds of conformity this child lacks

Knapsacks do not have zippers Ted said.
I don’t w...
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Categories: knapsack, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIrish Farewell

...O'Rourke has left Ireland with all he owns in a knapsack.
He is going to America with sunshine at his back.
The Irish soil is dotted with potatoes now turned black.
O'Rourke has left Ireland and h...
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Categories: knapsack, goodbye, ireland,
Form: Rhyme

Black Mass Wedding

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    Self's colors-change in the modes of wanting, 
as a chameleon in the daylight, 
as the seasons fade to black, hunting season
where loyalty is clothed in sackcloth, 
used as a knapsack w...
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Categories: knapsack, art,
Form: Rhyme

The Celestial Nile

...Journey by Ferry on the Celestial Nile
7 Ancient Portal Ascension to Immortality
In a Vessel, The Radiant boat employed to Traverse
the Cosmic Galaxy
On a Quest to seek within the Universe in My ...
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Categories: knapsack, moon, planet, stars, voyage,
Form: Free verse

Iselder Ysbryd

...So to the waterfront I go,
Heart heavy with the weight of feeling alone,
And there's  all Mcculloch & crew can do, I find,
To settle my soul, to ease my mind.

The world is at peace but my mind ...
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Categories: knapsack, allegory, lonely, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Two Sorrows and a Lie

...You cannot charm away the grim reapers;
No matter how beautiful your slick tongue
Bathes your bottom lip; to give air lippers
‘til oxygen craves your depleting lung,

Because I saw you but once ...
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Categories: knapsack, angel, anger, cry, dark,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberSwim

...I watch a golden sun slowly rise above the eastern sea and my thoughts naturally drift to    her. I wonder what she is doing, and if she ever dreams of     me.

A southern breeze gently caresses my...
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Categories: knapsack, confusion, desire,
Form: Haibun

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: knapsack, absence, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse

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