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Nipping Poems - Poems about Nipping

Premium MemberThe Grief I Feel is of Another Kind

...The grief I feel is of another kind
Sweeter than holy water
A deeper breath than moorland air to find
The black of midnight, not—
Of monstrous seas, but—
Of restful night, donated cloak 
From a...
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Categories: nipping, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse

My cat can’t be happy

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Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap

Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories: nipping, poems,
Form: Free verse



They got the whole world in their hands

...They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories: nipping, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEspecially Sweet and Cold

...Dark, black, midnight in my cup.
Cream is light, especially sweet.

Hot, warm, rekindle Winter’s mug.
Bitter chill, biting, nipping at heels.

“Baby it’s cold outside” teeny trees.
Tenderness ...
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Categories: nipping, america,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThought of the day

...all is well, all is well
we are in ineffable peace
in tranquil, time stretched stillness 
then an ego ripple surreptitiously arises
scarring the very fabric of our soul
watch all thoughts oh her...
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Categories: nipping, introspection, peace, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMore ado about Nothing

...Nothing

Is not no-thing

No-thing implies

A thing..but 

Nothing implies

Something..

Circling...



Nothing

May seem to

Suggest

Equality as

Freedom...



Nothing 
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Categories: nipping, absence, beauty, bible, words,
Form: Light Verse

Every January first of the new year

...Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories: nipping, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Kiss In The Dark

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POTD
How I wish I could have clutched
 vignettes of remembrance
on this bench in a park; 
the same wooden one
which cradled our afternoons,
feeding little birds
as  slices of pang gr...
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Categories: nipping, kiss, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberStillness in November

...Over harvested fields —

I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern   a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into m...
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Categories: nipping, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral

Premium MemberJelly Jill and Sister Jill

...J.J. sat quietly in the library,
Thumbing through a stack of books, looking quite contrary—
Jack Be Nimble, Jack Sprat, Little Jack Horner, and Jack and Jill,
Sifting through, trying not to make n...
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Categories: nipping, dog, imagination, nostalgia, nursery
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberexplosion

...bright colors shouting 
hello y'all it's me autumn 
nipping at your nose...
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Categories: nipping, autumn,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberYoung love

...Followed like a puppy 
nipping at his heels 
around every corner...
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Categories: nipping, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTerror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure

...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at...
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Categories: nipping, adventure,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLeper Messiah

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Walking toward His grave, the cool air nipping at my nape on this chilly Nisan morning, feeling disconsolate. The sun has just risen over the Mount of Olives, while the magnificent temple basks in ...
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Categories: nipping, jesus, remember,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberNourishing Soul

...("Honeybee on Apple Blossom", 2020, original pen and ink)

Nourishing Soul

Like a bee to the flower
Holding pollen and nectar
What is it we seek at play in the fields of the Lord
If no...
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Categories: nipping, allegory, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

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