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Outgrows Poems - Poems about Outgrows

Premium Member Demolished Childhood
...No toys to play with, she draws dolls on the dry soil with soft soiled fingers. The pale face is drenched, not by joyous summer rain. Is it dripping tears? The sad wet eyes graze on mother’s ......

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Categories: outgrows, childhood, dream, slavery,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Quill
...The computer era, indeed, has marred you and the pen, A romantic feeling, when I think of you, fills my mind; Will those Calligraphic times, the writers loved, come again? Wherein, a feeling of ha......

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Categories: outgrows, nature, writing,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Bipartisan Desires
...My dubiously protagonist Self outgrows toward a co-invested cooperative co-governing center A core UnWhite House communication center Tao training for sacred positive and trauma negation memo......

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Categories: outgrows, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Girl Alone
...Sitting at a bus shelter hoodie baby, skinny, drab, denim-discount, elfin face, the nose ring an ugly stigmata. She's been staring at empty walls lately, I can tell, I’ve stared at those sam......

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Categories: outgrows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To Women
...To you, O women great, in obeisance, I bow, For your primary forms of mother, sister, mate; Full of love, patience, kindness and compassion, how, The almighty has adorned you with goodness great; ......

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Categories: outgrows, women,
Form: Ode



Illusion
...Fate was cruel when you broke down the walls I’ve never been shattered in midst of the rainfall Was my life meant to be celebrated with love and joy? As hasty as a thief, you took away gaiety; lef......

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Categories: outgrows, father, father son, fathers
Form: Rhyme
Hoodie Baby
...Sitting at a bus shelter - skinny hoodie baby, denim-discount - sad little figure, Elfin faced even with the nose ring. I know this stranger. Her alien eyes search for other alien eyes. She's ......

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Categories: outgrows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Moment Lost To Time
...Coordinates require input, chance comes coincidentally, Rendezvous a meeting point, your wandering aimlessly, Vector on interception course, we cross paths randomly Anticipation is foresight, I n......

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Categories: outgrows, allusion, beauty, crush, desire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Prohealth Virus
...Heightened global consciousness of viral threats to health and safety seem to now create a multicultural shift transcending liberal and conservative responses to mortal fear and anger against a......

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Categories: outgrows, caregiving, change, community, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Tide
...In sunlights defilade weed outgrows the plant and marshmallowed clouds dissipate in whispered wisps owed was freely given and crested wave beckoned burning shoe less feet......

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Categories: outgrows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Childless
...Epigrams/Epitaphs Childless by Michael R. Burch How can she bear her grief? Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight of one fallen star. *** Laughter’s Cry by Michael R. Burch ......

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Categories: outgrows, child, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Epigram
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
... After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decide......

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Categories: outgrows, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Shrinking Season
...The Shrinking Season by Michael R. Burch With every wearying year the weight of the winter grows and while the schoolgirl outgrows her clothes, the widow disappears in hers. Originally......

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Categories: outgrows, age, childhood, death, girl,
Form: Verse
Snapshots
...Snapshots by Michael R. Burch Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows. And there you go, skipping your way to school. And here we are, drifting apart like untethered balloons. Here I am, creatin......

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Categories: outgrows, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Kid At a Bus Stop
...Sitting at a bus shelter hoodie baby, skinny, drab, denim-discount. She could be a female me fifty years ago. Elfin face, the nose ring an ugly brand, then again I'm an old bull - my n......

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Categories: outgrows, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

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