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Perforated Poems - Poems about Perforated

The Ballad of Snow White

...A queen was spinning flax one day.
She gave her loom a jerk.
(Don’t ask what “flax” or “looms” might be,
or why a queen must work).

She pricked her finger (careful, now!)
yet Sigmund Freud wou...
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Categories: perforated, abortion, fairy,
Form: Ballad

SILENCE

...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def...
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Categories: perforated, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun



Premium MemberMom Holds Another Opinion

...He perforated her ideas with an axe
Alternative facts; alternative facts
She ignored his staunch idiocy
A union between them could never be

She was as open as he was closed and opposed
She exu...
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Categories: perforated, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRangoli

...We draw life's patterns, vibrant and bold,
We arrange our karma, both new and old.

In the mandala of time, we place our stories,
In the chakra of days, we set our glories.

We shape tales of a...
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Categories: perforated, life, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse

Methane Gas

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Life goes quickly growing up from the use of a commodore 65. 
Perforated print paper 
Really takes your energy.
Fold and Tear!
Fold and Tear!
Every so often the edges 
With the holes placed...
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Categories: perforated, internet,
Form: Free verse



Catharsis

...a mystic poetess in her thought patterns
of iambic heartbeats, makes new rhythms
with a symphony...joy and pain in cadence. 

in her confetti of stars moonbeams cadence
caressing love in ivory a...
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Categories: perforated, poetry, poets,
Form: Tritina

Teardrop

...A doomed lifelessness sprung out of me
My body resided, candid eyed 
While my soul left, evaporated to escape 
In the form of a single tear shed.
Such dense, my eyes could not hold the weight
Th...
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Categories: perforated, dark, life, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPink Perforated Ping Pong Balls

...Alfie was the first son of a billionaire
Who bought a golden cradle for his son and heir
There was no expense that daddy wouldn’t spare
And perforated ping pong balls didn’t feature there

On Al...
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Categories: perforated, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPaper Doll

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      Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate 
      Affiance instant, folding fingers christen simulate 
      Phantasm button nose,  rosebud lips,  locks flaxen
      Escapist...
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Categories: perforated, april, business, childhood, dark,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberPleasant Pharms

...Come on down to Pleasant Pharms:
Apothecary quaint with charm.
Motto here is 'Do no harm'
Sometimes we sort of miss…

Grab some psychedelic fungus,
Mushroom that are quite humongous
On the tra...
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Categories: perforated, silly,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Regenerate

...REGENERATE :

Doctorated at a premium university,
Lost his concentration to absurdity,
Discarded his desire for rationality. 
Sorry for this dude's unfortunate category.
As solemn as his heart ...
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Categories: perforated, adventure, celebration, dedication, destiny,
Form: Lyric

Poetry Wives

...waiters and presidents
bartenders and poetry-wives
this pitiful boring life
was self-appointed without
the gavel's gravel of 
broken words

the water's fire dozes 
off to become forgotten dus...
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Categories: perforated, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPerky Pink Python Plays a Piccolo

...Perky pink python plays a piccolo
Perforated opossum practicing as pro
Pretty prancing porcupine poke Pinocchio
Pronunciation phrases performed in pleasing prose....
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Categories: perforated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Blinks

...its not behind me till i turn
straining eyes at sides
was that movement or just the eyeballs turn
peripheral visions of perforated what could be's
was that my breaths end
i'm sure mine was short...
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Categories: perforated, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Tragic Affiance

...Absurdity walked this path of a whorish lane,
Dauntingly decked in a dark seductive  garb
Egregiously seeks the thrones by craftiness,  
Nebulous transverse for the wayfaring man. 
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Categories: perforated, black love, character, divorce,
Form: Epigram

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