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Oblong Poems - Poems about Oblong

black is beautiful
...Black is beautiful  When I tore lose from the mountain and fell into the river. I was a rough stone, offended other stones as I lacked manners and appeared gruff  Now, however, I'm smooth, obl......

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Categories: oblong, abuse, adventure, angst, best
Form: ABC
oblong songs
...burried and cured in sod's wallowing gallow ground as tender flower of wonder reading worlds into the hands mired in swallows and clawed she began trunks of brooches for her second son to flee ......

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Categories: oblong, africa, england, french,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member goodbye in their eyes
...goodbye in their eyes while waiting to catch a train, oftentimes he sat alone at the depot —afraid—scratching initials in the dirt and sometimes in his head. hours became a collisio......

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Categories: oblong, lonely, rain, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vogon Without Regret
...Glimitz! According to your order - pronounce, I weigh less than an ounce. As gratchens flame and fly, to my disdain, I wonder, have you got a light? A conference call, a violin, a gently rap......

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Categories: oblong, nonsense,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Premium Member Oblong Faces
...She asked her daughter to explain fully How she became the target of a female bully “The bully said I have an odd, long face The kids cried, ‘Disgrace, disgrace, disgrace!’” “Oh Mom, please, ......

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Categories: oblong, anxiety, bullying, encouraging, mother
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Mask of Black Spinel
... Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber, Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number. I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall, The aching w......

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Categories: oblong, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet
POINT ZERO
...POINT ZERO Birth slipped into fast flowing rivers of patterned fissures her arching brows brazen searching sagaciously microscoping every moment tangoing across thorny thickets Ho......

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Categories: oblong, 12th grade, birth, death,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Serging Through Life's Stitches with Scars
...Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt, But always, my thoughts are pick-threading. As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me, See me, feel me, touch me, heal me Just too m......

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Categories: oblong, emotions, faith, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Wraith, Geist, or Wrath of the Failure
...Seems my handwriting will never improve, Yearlong efforts, letters still oblong. Not quite right, but we pretend it’s not all bad, I fixate on each line, a prerequisite approach. So next and then......

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Categories: oblong, anger, change, conflict, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate... after reading the article (published in the July + August 2024 issue of Mother Jones) titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's pugilistic spokesman......

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Categories: oblong, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member remembering my granny glasses
...Did you have granny glasses with peace signs? I pause, thinking, trying to remember. I know that I had three pairs in the late sixties. My favorite ones had square blue lenses. Another one had sm......

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Categories: oblong, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chicks
... Dawn of spring brings chickens in the family way When humans are busy gazing at the flowers, The chickens have got their love priorities right Instead of lazing away life, spend lusty h......

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Categories: oblong, bird, farm, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy New Year!
...2024 is coming, that futurity is guaranteed. Can you feel it coming? There’s magic in the air. I’m excited, as if someone put euphorics in my breakfast cereal. “Tonight,” Lisa said, twirling b......

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Categories: oblong, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Free verse
Digging Graves Circa 1955
...No mechanical diggers digging Standard oblong shaped holes The only effort needed being To manipulate the controls. We dug our graves by hand And the sweat of our brow A craft that seems outda......

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Categories: oblong, death, funeral, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep Inner Meaning Part Two
...Hue and cry road map, totem sign or lachrymose, knee-deep self compass, wading bird of psychic lull, being is a misty quest, that oblong pointer centered, on some phantom bridge, or other cros......

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Categories: oblong, birth, city, deep, environment,
Form: Free verse

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