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One Armed Poems - Poems about One Armed

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Misplacing China
...I've almost forgotten it. It got too big - holes appeared, entire towns fell through my memory. The Forbidden City is a convoluted red and gold ribbon, my mind cannot now untangle. Images f......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Somewhere To the Left of Earth
...In my many years before the mast I’d seen rocks and shoals conspire To ground me down to powder Till I was just dust in the wind, And I’d never even been to Kansas. I was useless as a one-armed......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
I Should Be Fishing
...Well, my bosses up above me are always pushing, trying to shove me into doing twice the work for only half the pay When 5 o’clock finally comes and I think this long day is done they tell me I......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, poetry,
Form: Lyric
The Vain Speech of a Sadist
...“Why raise this much crude alarm Over the schemed little harm To just chop off your left arm Leaving your right for your farm… Left arm coming to gross harm Does not betray yields from farm, ......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, bullying, gothic, hate, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pumpkin Man Terrorizes Me
...Pumpkin man tore off another’s arm for a walking stick. He hiked through the pine forest with one-armed Nick. The frown he gave me turned my hair star white. Even on Halloween, this creep gave me ......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Embarrassing Mornings
...My freshman year is ending and I’m as busy as a one-armed juggler. Of course covid is back. It reoccurs at the worst times, like a movie slasher long thought dead. When we have something schedul......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, humor, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv
...If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI [Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.] If......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, america, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Anti-Everything
...We've been played again for the sake of ratings by media mongrels rewinding the worst of mankind in in the bowel of primetime 24/7/365 (hog)feed leaving us completely cleaved and bloodied......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, america, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Headline -- Earp Jails Nasty Jack For Vandalism - Both Audio and Text
...Billy Bob and Betty Bob was guzzlin’ hooch at “Rusty’s” when a dude the size o’ Uruguay come thunderin’ through the door. He made his way to the slot machines - obviously mad as hell - and picke......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, humor,
Form: Narrative
The Killing of a Poet
...The killing of a poet There are many sorts of poets those who extoll the sitting regime tell of order it has brought their words are recited they win prizes but few, today remembers their names ......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, bible, creation, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Hes Taking a Break
... off the wall dancing electric blue shoes awhirl one-armed pushup 11/5/2020......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, dance,
Form: Senryu
War May Begin Again
...Start All over Again (First in my poetic poem Civil War Series. Jim Horn) Bodies, once with souls, we did carry, From church to a country cemetery, And new thought came to me again; How many ba......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Ponds of Blood Road
...Along the blood road there's thousands of ponds carved out by American bombs. An attempt to blast communism into starry oblivion- It'll take a hundred years to remove unexploded ordinances(uox......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, war, water,
Form: Free verse
Misplacing China
...I've almost forgotten it. It got too big - holes appeared, entire towns fell through them. The Forbidden City is a convoluted red and gold ribbon my mind cannot now untangle. Images float of......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The One Armed Lady
...Drawing from the shadow of La Manquita The mighty Spanish master from Málaga Painted his m'lady borderline grotesque Features so far flung and un fathomably stretched She had an eye in Segovia a......Read the rest...
Categories: one armed, art,
Form: Light Verse

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