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Matchsticks Poems - Poems about Matchsticks

Matchsticks Poems - Examples of all types of poems about matchsticks to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for matchsticks.
Premium Member John's Visit: Ephemera theme
...Edit on line 7 There he was – my first boyfriend ever - leaning against the sports car of a friend who drove him over to my town to see me before I left for college even though we had broken up......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse



A Native Nativity
...You try to make them civilized and grown-up, but the words are infants, they want to crawl around and yell for a bit. You know that an eye is upon you. watching you in that whelping room where......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Turning Back
...I turn back and the light’s glow is neither day or night, And the lilting summer waves gently caress the shore. Worn black rocks, stand as ageless and silent sentinels, And a trawler’s dies......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, imagery, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ls Lowry Footles
...Footles based on LS Lowry and his paintings. Surreal I feel Lone Man Own Man Match fit Matchsticks Street scene Smoke seen From mill Street fill School group Pea soup ......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, art,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
...Inspired by Portrait of a Kleptomaniac Painting by Théodore Géricault. An 1822 painting done as a series for a psychiatrist to identify mental illnesses. I sit here awhile It's my task today ......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Tinderbox
...Tinderbox Just a little box that holds the matchsticks, compact box with matches inside Just a little box that holds the matchsticks Yet they hold the strike of death! Yet they fire the final ......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captured Moments
...The detritus of a household of smokers was a joy to the young child, stifled in a family he believed he had outgrown. Matchsticks, by the score, he used to build magical castles with towers to climb ......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, child,
Form: Haibun
Staff Conference
...Another staff meeting, there are lizards at the table, a few goats, an ass. I know they return to the fold of a superficial normality at weekends, some even rock climb or enjoy a quiz-night at......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Truth
...I had a brain like an old motorbike, I rode it back and forth just to get laid by whomever, and that strange one who kept cats under her long skirt. Truth is a marmalade calligraphy. I yodel b......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unto You My Lord
...I’ve asked you for love, but my heart Is a playground of pains like matchsticks & veld, I’m a broken-pieced soul. I prayed for success, instead all I see Is them whammies in numbers of mega bus, ......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pages Written, Then Erased
...Time kisses each upon a cheek with timeless teeth of smile. Even hungry mice as we, who walk in other’s shoes a mile. Along the empires’ ridge we stroll with nighttime sky, engaged. Impoveri......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, writing,
Form: Rhyme
On Coining An Acronym For the Neologism 'Occult Microaggresion'
...On coining an acronym for the neologism  'occult microaggresion' 'OM' is right, But might get the Buddhists backs up.... OMA, WTAF? What about OMA? Its German for granny, but I've no objection......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, irony,
Form: Light Verse
Male
...I wish to try paint the portrait of manhood Tinkle a Little For what else except humility makes humans angels? For being a man is hard but that's something I wish to become before my tombstone da......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Restriction
...Restriction, restriction The world is getting mad, and the police patrol cruises the street if you are caught without a mask heavy fine awaits. I see some schools are open, but some are not, there......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Blank verse
Lockdown
...We can’t go out so what to do? How do we spend our time? Imagination, racing thoughts My brain on overtime. There’s gardening, painting, DIY Non urgent jobs to do, They’re boring and predicta......Read the rest...
Categories: matchsticks, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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