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Plaintively Poems - Poems about Plaintively

TATTOO DEPORTATION

...TATTOO DEPORTATION

I’d almost forgotten that damned tattoo
A small symbol that years ago, I had got
It was a couple of lads, drunk on vacation
The tattooist did it in red on my shoulder
I’m a ...
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Categories: plaintively, adventure, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

POINT ZERO

...POINT ZERO 

Birth slipped into fast flowing
rivers of patterned fissures 
her arching brows brazen 
searching sagaciously
microscoping every moment 
tangoing across thorny 
thickets 


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Categories: plaintively, 12th grade, birth, death,
Form: Alliteration



Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories: plaintively, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme

Bank rolled by billionaires

...Bank rolled by billionaires

No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024
still one hundred and eight days away,
(thank you Julian Date Calendar -
FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY),
I believe a foregone conclusion
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Categories: plaintively, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...
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Categories: plaintively, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Halloween Tale 2 - Potd

...To Kill a Wild Rabbit - FICTION

The small winding valley was cold and dank.
Nothing stirred as darkness descended quickly.
Dusk brought an ominous cloud of evil fog 
that, like a black s...
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Categories: plaintively, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Inevitable Death Defines Life

...Inevitable death defines afterlife

I mull mortality 
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity – 
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emana...
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Categories: plaintively, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAcrostic

...Sun spurting senselessly.
Pull pulleying plaintively.
Really ridiculous roundhouse rhymes,
Each eating enough of its environs.
And don't get me started on the in-laws.
Dine ahh near the shore, d...
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Categories: plaintively, happiness,
Form: Acrostic

No Roof For Reindeer

...No Roof For Reindeer

The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
and e'en 'pon
being razed ~2012 ah 
n...
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Categories: plaintively, absence, adventure, animal, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFor Jose - In Memoriam

...“Help me, Papa,” little Jose so plaintively said
As Deb placed his little body next to mine in bed,
He was so sick, and I had done everything I could
The vet had said he was coming dow...
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Categories: plaintively, death of a friend,
Form: Personification

Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Twice

...Yours truly dug deep with bony strength 
in tandem with fantasy notions know
king around in figurative heady 
toboggan noggin like cranial carapace 
to muster every ounce of strength 
in an effo...
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Categories: plaintively, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberManhattan Rhapsody

...Merciless movement
Atonal antipathy
Nonsensical noise

clarinet crescendo
soaring above
the collided cityscape

Harried hordes
Aggravating...
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Categories: plaintively, city, music, new york,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberApart My World

...I sleep, abrupt awakened, 
by stroke of fingered word. 
A wide and lingering voice 
plaintively whispering 
so much view my eyes cannot digest, 
so much ache, my soul cannot find rest.
You are ...
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Categories: plaintively, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Raw Bits of Heavenly Tasty Healing Power

...Raw bits of heavenly tasty healing power...

Sown by Norwegian bachelor farmer
in tandem with baked powder milk biscuits
courtesy your guardian angel
(otherwise known as Matthew Scott)

Writes...
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Categories: plaintively, allusion, blue, cry, daughter,
Form: Free verse

Stimulus Checkup Visited Mine Local Gastrointestinal Economy

...Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy

Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescripti...
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Categories: plaintively, abuse, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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