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Little Finger Poems - Poems about Little Finger

The Old Way

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In the rain shadow of Majave Desert I eat hot sand
I am singing with their Death Valley
I have allowed them to build my faith under a Joshua Tree
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Categories: little finger, character, earth, endurance, extended
Form: Free verse

Resisting The Repressing

...Resisting The Repression

Competition between a brother and sister
Rendition of an eighties song all about how much he miss her 
War of attrition between two countries facing off without a resist...
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Categories: little finger, life,
Form: Rhyme



Wiles

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It's criminal what women'll do
to keep a man down on the farm
shed false tears strategy I fear
pull the wool turn on the charm
smiling all the while
trap him wrap him twist him
round ...
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Categories: little finger, fun, humor, men, women,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTravelling Light

...Dedicated to Stuart A. Staples


I want to break someone's little finger
In three places

Give me strings on a hollow wooden body
Crumpled suits and apprehension

The warbler, the j...
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Categories: little finger, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEVERY DAY IS MOTHER'S DAY

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A baby! What a remarkable creation…I remember our first night together…
how I could not help but stare…thinking how…only a day ago…he wasn’t even there.

Thinking back on how…exactly…this moment...
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Categories: little finger, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme



wrap'd 'round eve'z little finger

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                                 hern majora 
                                      whilst 
                                  i held mine
                                    placidity...
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Categories: little finger, adventure, allusion, beautiful, body,
Form: Epigram

Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust

...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories: little finger, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

The Journey

...The Journey

……….. had been arduous, 
the path had been cramped,
the afternoon was shortening
and my destination crept closer….
I walked on.

The path still strolled ahead of me
and no matte...
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Categories: little finger, family, imagery, journey, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWildflower

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Quite by chance
I saw a single, small, white wildflower
amid a crush of grass and weeds 
along the roadside, its presence crowded out 
by seed heads and space hungry leaves 
of species honed f...
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Categories: little finger, beauty, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI CANNOT DIE TONIGHT

...I cannot die tonight
I dog-eared a book
Of pages I haven't perused
You know how long that took?
Scent of pages
Frayed and yellowed
Always get me
Calm and mellowed
The spine cracked and worn
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Categories: little finger, death, farewell, introspection, repetition,
Form: Free verse

A Contemporary Complaint for Consideration

...Annotations of mis-co-ordinations of the latest military drone strike 
The fear when the children of Ukraine hear bomb raid sirens into the night 
What’s near when all that you can contain is silen...
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Categories: little finger, deep,
Form: Rhyme

CUPPA CHAR

...CUPPA CHAR

When the world is spinning and all logic is gone
No sense of winning, and nothing to think upon
Then sit down for a rest, as it’s time for a brew
A cup of tea is the best, made prope...
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Categories: little finger, drink,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSCHOOL BUS FIGHT: true life

...If i remember  correctly: 
My philosophy was Don't react unless 
Necessary. The school day was over.
The ride home began normally. 
(Corrections made In this poem) 
Then the School bus Bully beg...
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Categories: little finger, allusion,
Form: Alliteration

The Christmas Tree

...I hung my heart upon the Christmas tree
Placed my hope in a love that came so free
Baby Jesus curled his little finger around mine
Said, I have given you my own bread and wine

Santa came rollin...
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Categories: little finger, christmas,
Form: Couplet

Precious Priceless Progeny

...Precious priceless progeny 

     Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffle...
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Categories: little finger, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme

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