Pinched Poems - Poems about Pinched

...I grew a rose from cuttings pinched from a loved one's plot, watered at ground-level, not at the top. Dung and mulch kept well away, from stems lest their collars rot. In time, it grew buds tha......

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...Germy-Squirmy Little Worm The most clever – yet so firm Plotting more scheme is what you yearn Schemes, snares, you're going for the fiery burn Ruining good apples with your germs! O Ger......

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...I cried earlier - just trying to describe how it feels to sing along with a spiritual choir, I made the error of singing a line and got all the feels. I was laughing too, but even thinking about beau......

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...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains, had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained, fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw, scramblin......

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...Height 6'1", checked. Waist a breath, legs a line, checked. Horned jaws, a sharp decree, checked. Weight, a feather's fallacy, checked. Groomed, primed, pinched, poked, A porcelain ......

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...Ghost/Box, Shiver/Gaze, Cold/Wicked ~~~~ The Spectre of a Bride ~~~~ It looked just like a quiet place Though *cold and dark inside I’d scorned all the haunting tales Of a *gh......

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...Cooper was a large and curious tiger, the bright star of a motley circus, Always out of step with others; like erring moon, of dawn skies, citrus. He was well fed and got lots of attentio......

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...Run, Girl, Run She was just eleven, small and spry, Her father said, “You’re due, oh my…” A spanking, harsh, the kind she knew, But this time she thought, “Not today, not you.” He called her b......

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... Irish tales of what a leprechaun gives away If you don’t wear green on St Paddy’s Day a painful pinch Like Suisse’s Grinch, a green tie or vest so invisible you’ll stay ......

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...A venetian red yearling’s head Pops up From behind a fallen log Licks rouge from its lips And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark Ears tweaking To the snow-crunch creak Of my dog and me appr......

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...Lips mops caress waterfalls crash metallic nerve laughing gas confession watermelon sugar sister scissors clocks tick loud like shaved ambergris Laminated kerosene lamps illuminate Evanescence......

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...I tore the page from its binder and ripped it to pieces, not wanting to be associated with the scribbles I had left on the sheet. To call that abomination 'art' would be an insult to the craft, and......

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...Spent a day with my ex this Christmas season. Both his hands were now green so I asked, "what's the reason?" Was he painting, a project, and they didn't come clean? His pigment was tinted in a mo......

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...In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. - Excerpt fr......

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... 'Twas the night before Christmas and I still had gifts to buy. I procrastinated getting it done; a terrible fault I can't deny. As I juggled bags of presents that cost far too much money, A side......

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