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Knee Poems - Poems about Knee

On Bended Knee
Sword of the noble With fury unsheathed Trumping dishonor And knaves unreprieved Knighted in armor Endowed from on high Legend heraldic With duty — reprised (The New Room: September, 2024) ...

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Categories: knee, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wounded Knee
The red sun cut across the sky like a dull knife where the tears would fall at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29th, 1890, close to 400 Lakota Sioux were resting peacefully on the Pine Hill Reservation in South Dakota. The US Army came to gather them up in a large circle in the middle of the reservation. The Lakota didn't...

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Categories: knee, evil, hate, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Spinning Knee Man, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
Spinning Knee Man His knees grew bigger and steel strong until he was big. Whenever he wanted to he could extend his knees (and it didn’t even hurt!) ten times as big. That wasn’t a grotesque display as it probably should be. No one could see his flat, rounded triangular bone, only see his pale hairy skin that covered his knee. Shockingly no...

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Categories: knee, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Wounded Knee
Like a hailstorm you came uninvited and blew the Lakota off sacred land Religion, cheap liquor hunger and disease spread by those at your command The battles broke every treaty our food source attacked and homes set ablaze But the only thing you can remember are the lies that you told — at the foot of our graves (Lakota Sorrow: December 29, 1890) ...

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Categories: knee, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
A buckling knee-joint
Should ye jail me whom people appoint, Beware, that will be a ‘breaking point’, Trump said in blatant threat To a nation deemed great, A case points to a buckling knee-joint. ________________________________ Happenings |07.06.2024| America, political Poet’s note: Donald Trump has warned that it could be a breaking point for his supporters if he is sentenced to prison following his...

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Categories: knee, america, political,
Form: Limerick



Thinkable unthinkable knee, are you still composing poetry?
Your most recent interest in observational truth in laptop monitor Gave you an ultimatum today. He , as she, in he, as she again, grabbed you in all kinds of tree , remnant there before serenity What is poetry, in the end? Thinkable pedagogy, is , for the most bizarre reason, telling you That this is comparable prepositions, with positionality And...

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Categories: knee, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
During the Civil War, money came late, Indians starved, left to their fate. Two braves came across a white farmer's food. They were hungry and stressed and in a bad mood. Little Bear picked up an egg, Grey Elk said no. Some things we can't do, some places can't go. This is a white man's farm; we can't be here. Little Bear...

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Categories: knee, betrayal, courage, native american,
Form: Lyric
Broke knee, ankle
Blindes is folded into remindness, cause.. .. Do we not live in the world we know nothing abt? We are blinders Indeed Blinders, are timeless. We are they. And they are we. ...

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Categories: knee, class,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Bend Your Knee
Oh, Ezra, I feel your sorrow Tearing your tunic and cloak Pulling hair from head and beard Sitting down with heart broke A teacher versed in Law of Moses Given by the LORD God of israel Hearing the priests and Levites Mixing with neighboring people Everyone who trembled at the Words of God of Israel Gathered around Ezra because Of unfaithfulness of exiles We...

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Categories: knee, america, conflict, cry, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Noise
Bend your knee, Bow your head, Close your eyes, Put your hands in your ears, And let the music begin....

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Categories: knee, community, cry, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa's Knee
Climbing onto Santa's knee didn’t fill me with Christmas glee for his suit was wet and it wasn't just sweat ‘cause it smelt a lot like pee. (Limerick) 12/18/2022 A Funny Santa Limerick Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin howmanysyllables rhymezone...

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Categories: knee, anxiety, christmas, funny, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Upon Santa's Knee
There was a young boy of three who sat upon Santa's knee when Santa jiggled he cried and wiggled and soaked Santa's suit with pee. (Limerick) 12/01/2022 A Funny Christmas Or December Holiday Limerick Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin How Many Syllables to check syllable counts RhymeZone to check rhymes....

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Categories: knee, anxiety, boy, child, christmas,
Form: Limerick
Leslie Neilson- Laughs, Knee Slaps and Good For the Soul Eyerolls
Leslie Neilson Straight faced reveals a pun But what surely made him squirrely They wouldn't stop calling him Shirley Leslie Neilson Armed with wit and naked gun Genius buffoonery unparalleled Save for what Peter Seller's Clueso upheld Leslie Neilson Dracula loving it as a dead one Giving Renfield insect currency And causing Mel brooks an emeRRRgency Leslie Neilson A parody on the run Of spoofery not wrongfully accused Only keeping...

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Categories: knee, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
You Raise Your Knee
you raise your knee then stamp the foot down in a quick thrust as a mare in warning, snap your head back we lock eyes then meld in each other's arms we move together your hand upon my hip my hand secure at her shoulder blade the other arm extended hand in hand she must be maintained in this position to lead her in...

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Categories: knee, dance, dedication, devotion, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Every Knee Will Bend To His Majesty
Wisdom is the model of justice so to speak where the reflections mirror of holiness shine Champion of the truth You pierce the heart of all sinners Defender of the Faith a Teacher of the uneducated advocate of the poor, an arm of widows, eye of the blind even when the thunderbolt strikes He is...

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Categories: knee, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse

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