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Lurch Poems - Poems about Lurch

A YEAR IN PASSING
...January wakes us weary, New resolutions pressing heavy. Then comes February’s charm— A month of love, or wasted calm. We march ahead into March, Preparing for the chill to lurch. April brings......

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Categories: lurch, desire, poems, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leonard the Lion Brarian
...When Leonard says “Sh!” the entire library is silent as a church. The first time I saw this Lion-brarian, my heart gave a wild lurch. Who is checking out books? I whispered to another 4th grade fri......

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Categories: lurch, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Rainbow of Colours
...He made them in a hurry, He made them in the night. He had other things on His mind, and forgot to paint them white. A woman planned to fix this error - she was a woman of notoriety. She saw the p......

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Categories: lurch, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winifred is not like the others
...Old ladies in a line would be wearing pastel hats Their shoes would be common, plain, ugly flats. Their hair would be tamed, snipped and curled. But Winifred had just had her soul unfurled. Une......

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Categories: lurch, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interview with a Barnacle
... The recorder clicks on. What made you stay? I didn’t stay. I fastened. I was made to fasten. And if you're made to fasten, you look for something moving. Something strong enough......

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Categories: lurch, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Miss Wobble Paws
...She used to be fast and bouncy, but after two strokes her head began to tilt over her rolling neck and podgy body. Yet, through bleary eyes, she saw off starlings and cats, toppling into t......

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Categories: lurch, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dun Days
...Dun days? Clouds above in greys? Sapphire? Purple haze? Deterrence, dessicate, cays. Buildings on the raze. World around in twilight. Months ahead a-grim. Heart within me, burn with fight! C......

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Categories: lurch, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Lapse - Mar 4
...A loathsome lecher lurks along the long, Lightless ledge, looking to lure a lost lamb To lewd license, liquor, and lowlife lurch— To the lesser lying league and layer.......

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Categories: lurch, dark, evil,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member We're the laughing stock of the world
...All for the price of a dozen eggs, America stands on shaky legs. Globally, the claim is heard ~ "The US ~ laughing stock of the world," as daily we star in our very own theater of the ab......

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Categories: lurch, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member stranger at church
...The stranger’s hat was cattywampus His grey and white toupee slightly askew Church ladies thought he was single I mean more than just a random few They surrounded him at the pot luck Before he......

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Categories: lurch, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fiddler Met Twiddler
...Fiddler met twiddler on his way to church fidgeting and diddling, their fingers in a lurch Fiddle-sticks and Fiddle-faddle stopped to watch and stare puttering and muttering, one day in autumn’s a......

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Categories: lurch, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Of A Pen And A Book
...Book by book, I see the hook, How about we have a look, Don't make me choke, I am with a bottle of Coke, I hear a creek, I am not a Greek, The shrubs are on a bleak, Glistened by the sleek, ......

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Categories: lurch, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Ballad
Something We Never Had
...How can I feel and almost touch something we never had? A moment shared but not, lost somewhere a long way from where it started, where it didn’t begin. But I can paint a picture of it, transcribe......

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Categories: lurch, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee After a hiatus of countless years plus an additional almost three months since a major makeover, (I experienced the magic wrought courtesy a bonafide big hearted ......

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Categories: lurch, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
1950 truck
...climb up high on cold leather seat and put the key into the switch set the handbrake good and tight step on the clutch make sure it’s not in gear pull out the choke and pump the gas switch ......

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Categories: lurch, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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