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Pocket Knife Poems - Poems about Pocket Knife

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Premium Member In Memory of Pocket Knives
... On those long days when it was too hot to ride or run, a boy would find an island of cool beneath a tree and sit there with his pocket knife to whittle away time and a piece of wood. A goo......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, childhood, creation, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member snake took me hostage
...a fat black bumpy snake took me hostage in a roll. pulled me right down into the farthest darkest hole What the heck! What the heck! What the heck! whoa! I yelled out for he had his fangs around m......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Because You Do Not Have Eyes
...When you ask me about myself, I will take note of your lack of eyes, Because you have no eyes, I will tell you all my secrets I will tell you how I wish on stars, And how for years I thought T......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, me,
Form: Free verse
The Tabaco Tin Knife
...Dad could have left but he stayed put, and he kept his lips locked, though a hissing cat escaped from his hie throat occasionally. Mother would say stuff, poisonous stuff stuff that would make ......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Bought a Submarine
...I bought a submarine. Not the sandwich either, a full on submarine. I got rid of all the useless stuff of course. Scrapped all the metal hulls, dumped the useless motor, left the curved propellers in......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, image,
Form: Prose Poetry



Pocket Knife
...My grandfather made a gift of his pocket knife. It wasn’t in his will or anything, he just quietly took my hand, put the silver knife, shining after all these years, into my palm and folded his wrink......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, grandfather, memory,
Form: Haibun
The Shed In My Head
...I once belonged to a garden shed it had a small window you could look inward into it. There I sat smoking a funky tobacco and cleaning my fingernails with a small gun metal pocket knife. Occ......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Never Go Back To What Was Never Found
...Never go back to look for them, those things you lost, not just things, like your hair, or a favorite pocket knife. Remember 'Teddy Boys' ? You were born too late to wear the slim suited, dra......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jimmy Rigg, the Tool Freak
...Jimmy Rigg - this dork I know, from Billings, Pennsylvania - always carries doo-dads in his pockets, front to rear, Just in case some unexpected problem might arise...bent on having what he’d need t......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
An Underwater Slaughter Attempt
...underwater thinking about slaughter open to discussion wanting to play percussion refusing to breath easy having difficulty and feeling queasy hearing a different rhythm trapped in a spinning ......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, beautiful, blessing, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Willow
...With a pocket knife, he whittles wood--life in a wicker chair on his porch. Willow in yard, breezes wave this fine tree, planted when his girl was five. He weeps--wonders where she's gone. ......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, sorrow, tree,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Whittling Life Away
...With a small blue pocket knife Willem whittles wood, fashions simple dolls. His old-age life consists of morning rations: stale bread, coffee, a few almonds, apples he portions into quarters s......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Dump-Date Suicide
...I remember I dumped you on that one date Two years ago I said that I would be your soul mate I told you we would always be a pair I told you as I held you that I’d always be there I love, I’m sor......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, boyfriend, break up, dark,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Here
...A boy walks a half mile down a trail He stops Walks towards a large tree Pulls a pocket knife from his jacket His father gave him this knife Having received it from his father And his fathe......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, adventure, boy, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Snagged
...SNAGGED We trod the dusty path home from school, mottled with casuarina shadows. Gurgling ripples gave way to deep pools, my brother skipping stones. Khaki Campbell ducks brought chuckles. ......Read the rest...
Categories: pocket knife, 4th grade, age, character,
Form: Free verse

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