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Millimeters Poems - Poems about Millimeters

April Blues
...I like hammocks. I like buzzing bees. Unseasonably warm days. Or maybe more like hours… In April, things get taken out. Then put away again. My favorite shorts. My favorite flowers. My ......

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Categories: millimeters, seasons,
Form: Free verse
A Knife Through My Hole
...… You advance by the step, destined to accelerate my heartbeat; I have a tendency to feign nonchalant despite my rapid, unsteady breathing. Petrification courses through me as you stop, millimeters......

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Categories: millimeters, abuse, analogy, angst, betrayal,
Form: Narrative



The Finish Line
...I’m on my knees, hands clasped together under my chin. He’s standing above me, looking down to meet my gaze. The look of concern washing over him. We’re so close you can almost see the heat from my......

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Categories: millimeters, anger, christian, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
My Fox
...My fox screams and yells in utter disbelief, a glass wall silencing his pleas I can only watch in utter display as my fox slowly but surely withers away You may ask, ‘Why didn’t you help?’ or ‘Why ......

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Categories: millimeters, best friend, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Light
...Glistening night began the fall, Of dreams and joy, he would often call, Hopes residing on his shoulders appal, Dark inhaling the being, exhaling it all. Where would it end? Masking it, anon......

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Categories: millimeters, life, light,
Form: Rhyme



Distances
...The distance that hurts me the most it is not that of the miles that separate us, But the one with the millimeters between my eyes and your eyes... the one that tied us closer, the one we no lon......

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Categories: millimeters, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Once Again Besieged By Fruit Flies
...Once again besieged by fruit flies Pestiferous infestation quite argh apartment unit b44 plagued with plight analogously linkedin to phenomena experienced within outer limits of the twili......

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Categories: millimeters, anger, animal, august, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Baltimore
...Baltimore, again. 8 AM, sweating, shaking on the verge of puking up stomach acid. the car is dead silent. are we early? are they late? is this how its going to be forever? who kn......

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Categories: millimeters, abuse, addiction, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Metric System Messes With My Head
...I grew up with inches, yards, miles, and feet. I knew the difference, it was easy, and neat. But today I am far behind in the dust because Metric scale is what the new math does. Millimeters, c......

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Categories: millimeters, age, math,
Form: Rhyme
Out of My Grasp
...No matter how fast I run, or how high I climb, It always escapes me, that being called “Time” It is a cunning sparrow, taunting with each rasp But with each step nearer, flies out of my grasp......

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Categories: millimeters, adventure, anxiety, death, flying,
Form: Couplet
Futile Effort To Plunger the Clogged Kitchen Sink
...Futile effort to plunger the clogged kitchen sink... courtesy malfunctioning garbage disposal which won't be removed by onsite maintenance man UNTIL/UNLESS fruit fly excreta wiped off (impos......

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Categories: millimeters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Foot In
...I’m tired all the time these days With aches and pains that show my age. Rusty springs, instill in me, this unfamiliar rage. Logic still escapes me as air once clear, is filled with blame.......

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Categories: millimeters, age,
Form: Rhyme
Little Things
...These stories and their strategies tend to remain untold little bit by little bit they change our world Gathering their momentum bit by bit become too dangerously headlong and inch by inch ......

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Categories: millimeters, social,
Form: Free verse
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box. Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt only to be dialed up through brass lungs......

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Categories: millimeters, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Elementally
...Grounded are the feet that be in the elemental earth Bounded we the legs that keep the motion of walks Rounded is the dirt beneath as the pressure begins to mound Founded the discovery to uncover ......

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Categories: millimeters, creation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse

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