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Polishing Poems - Poems about Polishing

The Espresso Salon
...He’s behind the bar, polishing glasses like they’re his last remaining purpose. “I know things!” he insists. “I watch Question Time! I once bought quinoa by accident!” He pours stout with ......

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Categories: polishing, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Gladiator Games
...The arena is built lie by lie, sobs by sobs. Names don't matter. A game is still a game, called by any other name. Children with ribs like shattered shields do not volunteer; they are raised f......

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Categories: polishing, allegory, dark, world,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love, Lubricant Of The Soul, Emollient Of The Heart
... Love is the lubricant of the soul and the emollient of the heart, both Unguent and viscous, it glides like butter in the summer heat Banish it from your life and sudde......

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Categories: polishing, analogy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Inherited Jawbones
... I’ve taken up polishing skulls. Not trophies, just my kin— their sockets still echoing what they aren't ready to hear. Though it's only what they've said themselves. I never knew ......

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Categories: polishing, family,
Form: Free verse
The Dream He Never had
...He always dreams big on just about everything He has been doing this since he was a child And sometimes his imagination runs wild. He likes to pull things apart and appear in the dark and when ......

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Categories: polishing, america, blessing, business, care,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Unending Bliss - Afterglow Wish
... Written: March 31st, 2025, for contest, Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann ************ After basking in yesterday's afterglow, I divested my vestments to shift in ......

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Categories: polishing, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Chrome Heart
...Midnight rides—his pulse aligns with the thunder beneath him fingers tracing her curves polishing fire into steel. Wind against his skin she sings beneath him once more Saturday mornings spent b......

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Categories: polishing, adventure, beauty, freedom, imagery,
Form: Imagism
no way out
...No out A man coming home from work saw a shadow a figure leaning against a dead olive polishing his hoofs and sharpening his scythe. The man said no, you are too young to harvest he then t......

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Categories: polishing, 4th grade, 7th grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Who’s Your Daddy
...daddy’s stepping out mother Russia reach around polishing his throne *** According to Alnur Mussayev, Trump was recruited by the KGB’s 6th Department as a spy in 1987, and given the nick......

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Categories: polishing, america, betrayal, sexy,
Form: Senryu
Mother River
...My mother is a river. Not a calm, deep river, lush with fish and plants, flowing by gently and powerfully...but a thick, white rapids, furiously polishing the jagged rocks into marbles. There i......

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Categories: polishing, mother, river,
Form: Free verse
Big Green Apple
...Big Green Apple Utterly honest and open big green apple addicted to substances used for smoothing, polishing, and cleaning. ......

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Categories: polishing, humor,
Form: Free verse
Strong Black Woman
...Author Dana Redricks November 5, 2024 You're a strong black woman, who’s had her share of disappointments and pain, but you never let it make you bitter; instead, you turned it into gain. Thro......

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Categories: polishing, celebration, dedication, deep, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Silent Feast
...Corruption reigns while silence is served. We hone their knives with indifference, keep polishing their plates with our fatigue. The reckless and the cruel— they feast well, for the tables are la......

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Categories: polishing, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member apple polishing flattering sycophant
...flattery and compliments oozed out of her she would apple polish a weirdo, a cur. a suave sycophant of the nth degree her nose as brown and smelly as an eye can see......

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Categories: polishing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seasonal Bliss
...The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy s......

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Categories: polishing, appreciation, autumn, beauty, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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