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Outsized Poems - Poems about Outsized

Premium Member The Clock Struck One
...At twelve forty-five, the clock struck one, and when it had seen what it had done, after sixty more minutes flew, that timekeeper struck two. It never learned, next to the shelf: "Always ke......

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Categories: outsized, humor, murder, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Orphan
...You chance upon her in the far reaches of the backyard a place you never go and there she trembles a tiny tiger in a blurred world secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs faint mews dra......

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Categories: outsized, animal, care, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Two Small Verbs,Nouns
...Two Small Verbs/Nouns Love and hate, two peas in a pod. Two words so alike yet not alike. Both filled with passion, evoking strong feelings. We act on them, or not, each in our own way. ......

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Categories: outsized, hate, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member America's Apostasy
...Exile prophet, seer of Patmos, peering through a time yet future, saw your rising, not from waters, but from the bowels of the earth. Lamb-like beast adorned with two horns, destined by God’s ......

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Categories: outsized, america, betrayal, culture, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Looked Up To Him
...That tiny infant you held in your outsized hand gently held your arm as you stumble-walked down the block for a bit of fresh air, and when you turned toward him, you looked up to him, as......

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Categories: outsized, father son, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unworded Rituals
...Glow morning warm hugging sleepy scalp and face embrace outside sacred pink yellowing fragrant dawn Without fear of fading dark or death or sin Welcome in naked foot massage pressure me......

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Categories: outsized, health, integrity, passion, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Tracery
...Bejeweled, in and out of the Gothic architecture, Conceived by Abbot Suger, through a constant conjecture; With perfect glasswork etched out of the then-time silica, Found its place In Saint-Deni......

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Categories: outsized, art, culture, gothic, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost and Found
...Lingering longingly, lost love laments Obstreperous outrage, overintense Sorrowful solitude, sad, sluggish since Tumultuous tantrums, terrible, tense Amorous ......

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Categories: outsized, love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Hedonistic Hate
...When we compare the numbers and percentages of innocent, trusting lives lost in significant part because of Christian militarized capitalized patriarchal monotheistic judging fundamentalism, ......

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Categories: outsized, allah, health, hope, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Outs Have It
...He is outstandingly out-of-bounds asserted the outlandishly outspoken outlaw He can outshoot, outtrump and outride you. He is outrageously outranked, the tenderfoot replied. But he did feel ou......

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Categories: outsized, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Travelogue
...Discover a country by bus and train Listen to the sound and look at the sight Buildings may crumble but people remain Santander port welcomes with loud refrain Old station front, new inside, mi......

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Categories: outsized, culture, spanish, travel,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Disempowering Missions
...Begin by composing grandly outsized mission statements, "To end racism, ignorance, sin." Continue to accept past win/lose separations, divorces, fragmentation as tolerable compromises while......

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Categories: outsized, culture, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Blade of Grass
...Front porch consciousness of organically rich freedom, relief from language label boxes, reifying, static, now giving way toward emerging diastolic flow, abundance fills a fertile inside view of......

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Categories: outsized, blessing, culture, freedom, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Portrait of An Unknown
... Portrait of an Unknown Written: by Tom Wright 7-18-2016 It was just an outsized oval portrait, Dusty and washed out by time; Always featured in the same location During my life at......

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Categories: outsized, remembrance day,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Buying the Farm
...Have you chosen what you will become, my son, or will you become something yet unchosen? Become? How will you keep yourself gainfully occupied, dare I speak of vocation? Oh yes, I will b......

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Categories: outsized, anger, community, destiny, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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