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Leaned On Poems - Poems about Leaned On

Back Where the Lines Still Moan
...I vanished soft a stolen breath, a hush between the lips of death. But ink remembers how I taste, how slow I draw, how sweet, how chaste then twist the lace and let it slide, a metaphor with hip......

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Categories: leaned on, appreciation, change, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chella
...The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot. The apartment window shade......

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Categories: leaned on, childhood, feelings, friend, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I called you this morning, life, for a bitter tea
...I called you this morning, life, for a bitter tea, We, who never knew how to exchange a true word, We, who danced on the same tense wire, Your eyes are estranged from me, the traces of past battle......

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Categories: leaned on, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
...I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Li......

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Categories: leaned on, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Taught The Light to Bend
... Every dawn looks the same. I chased the sun. I pleaded with the skies. I waited behind my watching eyes. I needed to break the knot. I wasn’t made for straight lines. I taught t......

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Categories: leaned on, desire, destiny, light, wind,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Come Back Colorful Butterfly Faerie
...colorful butterfly faerie flew into the garden today The marigolds, lilies and lilacs all leaned her way Wanting a favor, a glimpse, a look at her gown She had a terrific personality, and no kind ......

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Categories: leaned on, 2nd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Lesson Relearned
... A love match perfect until the truth won out she was a natural imp and a gifted daughter of nature he was a darkling with mortal appearance to try and gain what wasn't his he tried to cast her ......

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Categories: leaned on, betrayal, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: I do not know?
Probably,Forever
... This poem speaks for voices smothered by silence and those who returned home to find safety was another room for disbelief. They were climbing stairs—she and her brother, bags rustling with h......

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Categories: leaned on, anger, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Consequences of Stealing
... When you steal, it’s more than an object you take— You sever a thread in the soul you forsake. That bracelet? A gift from a mother now gone. That wallet? A dream that someone leaned on. ......

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Categories: leaned on, anger, betrayal, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Tabled, As Always
...They all took their seats round the table, It had no head, but all knew where Power sat. Summoned in haste by Ideology itself, for the matter was pressing and oddly stressing. Capitalism sat ba......

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Categories: leaned on, allegory, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What the Mouth Remembers
...You stood like dusk before me, quiet and burning at the edges. I knelt, not to worship — but to listen to the storm beneath your stillness. And later, when you opened like evening — petal by......

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Categories: leaned on, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There is Not Where We're
... Why am I here and not there I so yearned to be there, not here A tiny voice leaned into my ear ~ You and I are where we’re ......

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Categories: leaned on, voice, word play,
Form: Couplet
TO THE ONE WHO IS
...You have neither season nor outline, Yet you dwell in every beat of my heart, crushed By disappointment and solitude, As though the day leaned over my hours of penance To gather the source of my ......

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Categories: leaned on, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Danced at the Gas Station
... This poem is featured on YouTube (The Convergence point with Dr. Ivan Edwards), bringing its words to life through spoken expression. A gas station on the edge of the city, Neon lights buzzin......

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Categories: leaned on, adventure, beauty, dance, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Journey To Far America
...The sleepy begonias undulating slightly so undisturbed leaned forward to encourage and wish me good fortune, while the apricot trees spread around their strong aroma, a dazzling daylight was risin......

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Categories: leaned on, america, courage, goodbye, morning,
Form: Rhyme

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