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Prop Up Poems - Poems about Prop Up

The Kingdom of Forgotten Things

...In the bottom of a drawer,
where rusted nails and screws gather dust,
never used to mend the house
we swore we’d build together,
my dreams lie waiting.

In the back,
with the dried-up ketchup ...
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Categories: prop up, anxiety, depression, divorce,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPuppet Associates

...Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time, 
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots, 
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.

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Categories: prop up, analogy, animal, bird, caregiving,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberBrace For Impact

...Steadfastness of faith-altitude
Anchored by Sovereign fortitude
Such is my humble prayer-plight…
Lord, brace my trust-impact full might.

When angst prevails midst life’s pressures
Your...
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Categories: prop up, christian, courage, faith, god,
Form: Kyrielle

Janitor Ghost

...When the owls are out of town
his studded boots kick-up featherless hoots.
He is the creak and groan of tired wood,
The splutter of an old aircon
yet more;
all inexplicable noises belong to him....
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Categories: prop up, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLean Not On Gurus

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Lean not on gurus, for God search
Why prop up middleman
Sitting on high and mighty perch
Our credit card they scan

God within intimate
Here now immediate
Go in now, do not wait
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Categories: prop up, abuse,
Form: Rhyme



Don't Stop Beating Yourself Up

...All of the failures are mine
All the successes are theirs
I cannot stop ordering wine
I keep rearranging the chairs

Don’t stop
Don’t stop
Don’t stop beating yourself up

Should you go to Ma...
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Categories: prop up, abuse, age, drink, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberHe Gave Her a Book

...He gave her a book....she used it to prop up her iPad.


John G. Lawless
5/11/2021...
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Categories: prop up, humor, irony,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberJust Stating the Obvious Poetry Contest

...*Image of Nursing Home provided by Pixabay.

Just Stating The Obvious Poetry Contest
Poetic Form: Rhyme

PLACE: Hereafter Harmony House (Assisted Living Facility)

Mo...
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Categories: prop up, age, care, community, giving,
Form: Rhyme

Oh Dystopia a Tree 4 a Carpark

...The long hard journey through
past to progress

These day's has far few many stops to make along it's tried and tested daily route to commute

As cutting costs has so many
uneconomic station la...
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Categories: prop up, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaybe We Can Agree On Gravity

...Certain scenes can be taken for granted,
Like clouds blanketing, our sunny sky’s,
Intuition gut feelings, cannot be ignored,
Suspicions important, not vacant denial,

Where contrasts fade into e...
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Categories: prop up, abuse, allegory, allusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

The Church

...I don't really want to cripple the church
I realize that the Pope and the church have problems
Imagine in his position
all the expenses of the church

The budgets, electricity 
building mainten...
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Categories: prop up, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

Crippled and Lost

...Prosthetic language can never fix 
  a Poems broken joints

Only inspiration can set
  the break for sure

Crutches and canes to prop up verse
  severely disappoint

Perception falling on it...
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Categories: prop up, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIf Ever I Had a Country: Lxxiv

...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV

IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre d'Etat 
        Ple...
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Categories: prop up, education, graduation, prison, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Rebirth of My Rigour and Vigour

...Cycles of life stream reams of joy and pain
Alternating nets and magnets of sunshine and rain
Sifting through rest and strain  

When by default I favour a fault
That in my right sense I should ...
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Categories: prop up, poems,
Form: Free verse

Flow Into Your Heart's Glow

...Flow into your heart’s serenade
If happiness should glide and slide
Away the lemonade
You struggle to hide in a ride

Into booze or a cruise
Into screams and streams 
That pretend not to bruis...
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Categories: prop up, poems,
Form: Free verse

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