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Petered Out Poems - Poems about Petered Out

Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor? Ah... methinks legal tender could be a boon to help me bolster mein kampf with necessary material equipage, which prospect to acquire......

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Categories: petered out, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer's End
...Breaking the silence at Summer's end; the crackling crunch of leaves can be heard. And the wind wails at trees that won't bend; proclaiming such resistance absurd. Songbird chicks have ......

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Categories: petered out, autumn, change, color, image,
Form: Quatrain



Gender Bender
...And now let’s speak of Paparazzi Who show us things that we should not see They think they are so hotsy-totsy Let Mama have the job Yes, I’d prefer the Mamarazzi ......

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Categories: petered out, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Patrice Day
...Saint Patrice day In 1957 my ship docked in the town of Cork (Ireland) If you think that is a long time ago, you are probably right but in my head, it was yesterday. Life was slower back the......

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Categories: petered out, absence, blessing, fantasy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member White Light
...WHITE LIGHT daylight coming in intrusive caught sight of the minimal  after-images hanging in the air time  become  often a beginning  unstretched  uneven  or discarded curls ......

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Categories: petered out, poetry,
Form: Other



Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
...Future time traveler looks back one century ago The following poem tweaked courtesy original author who crafted literary endeavor some couple years ago. Now circa August 20th, 2122, or 193......

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Categories: petered out, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spelled Embarrassment
...Mine slovenly unkempt appearance spelled embarrassment spurred by most recent therapy session with Renee Cardone whereby thematic thread stitched how yours truly sewed coping modus operandi, ......

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Categories: petered out, 12th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spells Embarrassment
...No rhyme nor reason why yours truly recalled how me late mother (earlier in her fitbit livingsocial years) non verbally communicated disgust (insync with audible sigh) quite often ultimatums b......

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Categories: petered out, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Free Association Pulsation
...Corsican sand on the Rio Grande Simon Bolivar weeps the night asleep Renegade cycles hogs gone mild Gehinnom's Mayor Timothy Leary's child Zebras abound in Peppermint Land Ala......

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Categories: petered out, angst, confusion, crazy, howl,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tale of the Halted
...*Image of Ready to Break by UCA. Tale of the Halted 'Tis be a day of echo and with it, the result preys on the lips to no end, the uncontrolled tongues hast lain in plain sig......

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Categories: petered out, fire,
Form: Metrical Tale
On Chance, Fate, Probability, and the Fear of Death
...It's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The recent billion dollar lottery sent the masses into a frenzy--a......

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Categories: petered out, animal, appreciation, atheist, death,
Form: Prose
Marooned On An Island of Nihilism
...After a lifetime (pronounced like millennium), where tenacity futilely braced psyche deeply purpled, hellishly, and lethally traced resulting scars - jackknifed, emasculated cruelly chaste ......

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Categories: petered out, absence, abuse, allusion, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Brainwashing a Greenhorn In My College Den
...I dubbed a first year my room mate Upon arrival into our teacher training college To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate Taking him at high celerity on a binge Initiating him i......

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Categories: petered out, poems,
Form: Free verse
All From a Broken Pen
...You could say spring was in the air When his ballpoint pen flew apart Arthur took charge of it's repair So that made it a work of art! Declaring that, he felt compelled To write something down......

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Categories: petered out, humor, life, relationship, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Stella
...There once was a blizzard named Stella Too powerful for an umbrella But she petered out Losing all of her clout Like a post-midnight-clothed Cinderella. Her wind is still whipping around B......

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Categories: petered out, storm,
Form: Limerick

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