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Poke Out Poems - Poems about Poke Out

Hard To Pet
...Spines poke out of his skin Like spines on a cactus He's hard to pet, prickly if you will He'll love you like no other Make you purr like a kitten Until you beg him to stop But when all the fu......

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Categories: poke out, appreciation, beach, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Spring Skiing Sonnet
...The sun beats brighter than it did last month, with mercury up in the low forties, my time is running out for winter fun, March is such a bittersweet time to ski. Brown stains in the snow still l......

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Categories: poke out, imagery, light, seasons, sports,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Campfires and Thunderstorms
...Campfires and Thunderstorms Campfires and thunderstorms: Heads poke out from under cover, To see clouds bursting, That swell the river. Ears prick to hear tree snapping sounds, As li......

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Categories: poke out, adventure, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Special Tree
...How strange this year has been. You see, in my front yard’s a special tree. By April seventh or about the 10th, at least, its blooms poke out! My prettiest of trees by far - like fluffs of c......

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Categories: poke out, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Estonia's Fifth Season
... Estonia is a country on the shores of the Baltic Sea the smallest country in Northern Europe with a fifth season . . . a predictable period after winter and before spring that t......

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Categories: poke out, nature,
Form: Free verse



Man and Wife
...MAN My eyes are puffed and wrinkled And I have a triple chin. My hair, with grey, is sprinkled And, in parts, has grown quite thin. My stomach is extending And where once was a six pack Ther......

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Categories: poke out, age, husband, marriage, wife,
Form: Quatrain
Fog and Sea
...A mackerel sky fillets the village then hides it in a breezeless blear. Heads poke out of net drapes sniff and fish behind trawling curtains. Shopkeepers brace for wet dog splatter and spray fr......

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Categories: poke out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fog and Shale
...A mackerel sky fillets the village then hides it in a breezeless blear. Heads poke out of net drapes sniff and fish behind trawling curtains. Shopkeepers brace for wet dog splatter and spray fo......

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Categories: poke out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Captivating Beauty
...Ribbon layers of peach, tangerine, yellow and violet colored streamers of varied dimensions overlap While bridging evening sky the last of the sun's rays ignite different hues o......

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Categories: poke out, beauty, color,
Form: Free verse
Front Fence Forward
...Crocuses are gone, Daffodils are still holding on. Tulips begin their parade, Grape hyacinth still poke out above leafy blade. Fall I’ll replant bulbs thinned out by rodents, It’s my yearly......

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Categories: poke out, flower, garden, rose, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Marsupial Mommy and Me
...I was just a little one, in the grass, enjoying the sun, when a shadow covered me. She had appeared suddenly, in one swell hop. It was a tall warm-feeling shadow. I reached up my hands, and pul......

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Categories: poke out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Planet Earth
...Planet Earth… I live upon a planet of rocks which poke out from the sea, two thirds of my world is under water but the third which isn’t I can see That’s because I can see the blue planet from......

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Categories: poke out, earth, people,
Form: Free verse
My Wife's Hairy Chest
...When I met my wife, I thought that I was blessed. But I changed my mind when I saw her hairy chest. I didn't see her naked until our wedding night. When I saw her topless, I nearly died of fright.......

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Categories: poke out, funny, humor, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Ocotillo
...A sunbaked pile of dead sticks in the ground I’m a divine oversight, it would seem Hundreds of long spines poke out all around Yet inside resides a colorful dream I’m a divine oversight, it wou......

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Categories: poke out, beauty, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Feet
...FEET When I hear the tick, the gong Too long? Too short? I mumble, “Too damn long!” Cold feet, raw, How they poke out And not enough blood to withdraw Hah! A marathon, Kick the can, th......

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Categories: poke out, age,
Form: Haiku

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