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Rasp Poems - Poems about Rasp

claimed by the sea
...I dreamt of a siren with crystal skin and quaint braided hair. her eyes, slow swirls of undying azure, coiled around, her salt-sweet chorus tightening at my throat The alluring notes pi......

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Categories: rasp, beauty, blue, color, lost,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Remember Their Light
...The air grows still, a nation's breath held deep, A Memorial Day promise, sacred to keep. For fallen soldiers, heroes of the past, Whose shadows linger, memories that last. In solemn hush,......

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Categories: rasp, appreciation, memorial day, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member He’s Smooth-I’m Breathless
...And it’s just like the ocean under the moon Oh, it’s the same as the emotion I get from you You’ve got the kind of lov’n that can be so smooth, yeah —Itaal Shur, Robert Thomas He’s ......

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Categories: rasp, nostalgia, sexy, song,
Form: Rhyme
Relentless Rhythm
... The horizon, a bruised purple this morning, but the sound, always the sound. A constant, liquid sigh, a breath drawn in across continents, expelled onto this shore, again, and again. Rel......

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Categories: rasp, nature, sea, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lemons and Life
...Of all the songs You seem to be The tuneless one, Less subtlety. God's orchestra Has dealt a hand— More toneless rasp Than golden strand. I wonder if You long to be A star In morning's......

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Categories: rasp, bird, blue, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Swimming In Grief
...I long to lie like a sunrise sky upon the sea my flame a tender torch for your gasoline tide freedom fire to burn the brine from my eyes fluid movements our soft inferno in sorbet shades ~m ~e......

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Categories: rasp, angst, grief, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FOR THE MEMORY
...I loved you once When youth was fresh Without the rasp of smoke In your voice Back when time was mine Before all of the pages Were filled by life I loved you once Now the book unfurls T......

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Categories: rasp, 8th grade, age, break
Form: Free verse
Gradations of Color
...Hydration day’s a month away. Online belonging company’s an hour from startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre Viewfinder pigeonholed to rooftop tourist traps ruin’d carriage holy woods Ho......

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Categories: rasp, absence, addiction, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
...There come those nights—you know the sort: The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window, Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song th......

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Categories: rasp, love, metaphor, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Under Surreal and Abnormal Disgraceful Skies - Part 2
.....continued from Part 1, They're spraying whatever the hell they need, To inhibit our solidarity, to choke us out with noxious painful coughing fits, that rasp and stop our breathing - to cr......

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Categories: rasp, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Blade of Grass
...Feeling like a blade of grass, Trampled on as strangers pass. Unwatered, left to nature’s whim, A fragile life, a light grown dim. Beneath the weight of careless feet, I bend and break in cold......

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Categories: rasp, blue, crush, fear, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Turkey Talk
... The history of our ancestors, wild turkeys, explained an old wise Tom, is that it’s filled with far more bad than good memories. First, their numbers were never killed as often or as many ......

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Categories: rasp, humor,
Form: Didactic
The Person I Want to Be
...I want to lead by example But would I even follow my own steps? Would I want to walk beside a person Who never knows what might happen next? What if I tripped and everyone fell downhill? Topplin......

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Categories: rasp, 9th grade, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gewgaw Witch
...she conjured up a cunning rasp a gewgaw lyre-like harp in clasp to crooked teeth held in their grasp then twanged at midnight with a blast this higgled haggled haggly crone did dance on graves......

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Categories: rasp, dance, dark, fun, magic,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member a few chuckle perhaps
...Talked to a fisherman He said he hadn’t had a bite in days…so I bit him Hickory dickory dock The mice ran up the clock The clock struck one… If he clears concussion protocol he’ll start tomo......

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Categories: rasp, fun, humor, word play,
Form: Free verse

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