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Knapsack Poems - Poems about Knapsack

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 Member Panoramic
...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 Member Somewhere 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 Member Ted 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 Member Irish 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
... 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 Member Swim
...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 skin ......

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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
Premium Member Knapsack
...“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9 of the King James Bible With knapsack of God’s provisions let’s press toward divin......

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Categories: knapsack, christian, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Ballad of Joyce Hill
...To her family she was coy but truly she would be their Joy, a country girl from Kingaroy - the fourth of eleven. Over hill and range she did tramp living......

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Categories: knapsack, tribute,
Form: Ballad

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