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Pinking Poems - Poems about Pinking

Premium MemberECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE

...ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinki...
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Categories: pinking, 12th grade, mother, mother
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberTHOSE WE LOVE

...Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor

ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the sciss...
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Categories: pinking, 12th grade, love, mother,
Form: Haibun



PALEO PAIR

...PALEO PAIR

Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions 
were our t...
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Categories: pinking, age, allegory, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPotpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse

...I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad foo...
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Categories: pinking, angst, dark, i am,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHitchcock

...I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind,
independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their...
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Categories: pinking, fear,
Form: Haibun



Premium MemberThan-Bauk variation

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Here are a few more Than-Bauk, where I have used a particular letter-sound instead of a rhyme on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd syllables (lines 1,2,3) I find this to be a fun alternative to the limited ...
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Categories: pinking, autumn, beauty, death, political,
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium MemberNine Month Night

...Nine month night - light broke free like dawn.
In babe’s face, impassioned pinking.
From romance of wishful thinking -
Too many threads to count, forgone.
Potent, when God, she called upo...
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Categories: pinking, birth,
Form: Quintilla

Premium MemberShe Is Not Ugly In An Ugly Sweater

...La’Donna was a beauty, and most were jealous of her daily.
She can’t be all that! Argued my devil’s advocate cousin, Bailey.
Then he met her, and he knew what we were all thinking.
I noticed when ...
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Categories: pinking, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Reverence In the Clouds

...Airplane strolls on, above the clouds that look like whitest snow
Unknown if this black shark has passengers or is a ghost ship though.
Blaze of the sun sparkles out in the form of an angels’ wings...
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Categories: pinking, sky,
Form: Rhyme

Delicate Hue

...Blushing soft roses, filled with the smell of romance.
Beneath a flushing sky, as a rosy day comes to an end.
Pinking cheeks and a tender kiss.
Delicate heart candies and cookies top with adorable...
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Categories: pinking, color, cute, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAfternoon In a Meadow

...Shy woods blush mahogany gold
Temperate wind's silky whisper
Stir pinking buds to waken from shade
Grasses' lush complexion freckled in yellow
Transforming mortal earth to hopeful heaven
Stretch...
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Categories: pinking, appreciation, nature, summer, yellow,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Empty Box

...An Empty Box


My oldest daughter got her diamond ring.
Brother Bob’s daughters choose next
Each reaching into the box
 choosing some memento.

Grandchildren next. 
I looked away
Telling my...
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Categories: pinking, death, mother,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf I Were a Man

...If I Were a Man, I'd:
     Never purchase another dress,
     chop the heels off my stilettos,
     burn every pantyhose in the house,
     allow my ears to close their portals,
     and use pin...
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Categories: pinking, humor, woman,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMemories On Branches

...How did a cherry kiss? Bitter flower petals with sweet pistils.
So laden they act as halos while we breathe the love
in a pink hollow, silence sounding like taste, acting like epistle
to hold this...
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Categories: pinking, age, autumn, home, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAbsolutes

...Absolutes
	
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	Darkness dominates 
	the earthly cycle at year’s end. 
	This is true 
	no matter how many fools 
	legislate otherwise.
	
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	Dogs have unerring internal clocks
	and finite bladd...
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Categories: pinking, dog, nature,
Form: Free verse

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