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Rimmed Poems - Poems about Rimmed

Love Hurts

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“Kiss me,” she says—
her eye swollen, rimmed in red.
“Hold me,”
but not like that.
Not with fear pressed
into every rib.

He doesn’t answer.
Just slams the door.

“He loves me,”
she wh...
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Categories: rimmed, anger, cry, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Prophecies of Mr Adams

...Streets are filling with needles, disease and narcissist
the airways rimmed with demands for respect
if you don't agree 100 % they'll ring your neck
and your next of kin.
people turn to plants an...
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Categories: rimmed, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse



Nazi time

...Nazi time

Uniformed men with ice blue eyes, marched
Up and down the street, bomb fell, earth shock
And I was two years old
An officer with steel rimmed glasses and a cruel
Smile, said: this ch...
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Categories: rimmed, abuse, april, art, birthday,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberMy Chemistry Teacher

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In her sixties, of Swedish descent, robustly built 
and amply breasted, the girth of her thighs bulging

under her white lab frock like a Henry Moore sculpture, 
her feet secured in high la...
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Categories: rimmed, teacher,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Girl

...The girl in the gold-rimmed spectacles
Lips red bright
Face that once was alive
Now show the lines
That life betrayed
Flowing blond hair
But not below

The guy in the ten-bob suit
Hitting hi...
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Categories: rimmed, men, woman,
Form: Free verse



Poet who exhibits panache

...Poet who exhibits panache - meant...

to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,
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regarding the following poem
with kick a$$, je ne sais quois
ingenious, humo...
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Categories: rimmed, adventure, appreciation, celebration, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn My Deepest Fantasies

...Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant  raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled ra...
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Categories: rimmed, celebration, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Roses

...It’s almost laughable how often I’m found rotting inside myself. 
Knees curled to my chest, lungs expanding and hesitating. 
Sobs racking my body in violent tremors. 
Silent. 
Exhaling jagged bre...
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Categories: rimmed, anger, depression, family, heart,
Form: Free verse

the big apple

...Friday in the big apple

 It is 17.53 in New York 
those who work at night are stirring 
drink coffee, shower and dress
to look their best
This as the multitude drive home 
for the week end 
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Categories: rimmed, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful, courage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDawn

...Rimmed with red,
the sky emerges
from an alcoholic haze,
collapses on the shoulder of a hill.

As thin-lipped
as the letter box,
I brush a broken bottle
from the driveway:

shards of glass
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Categories: rimmed, drug, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnsent Letters

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I find myself
with just myself reflecting
on undelivered letters of winters past--
the most bitter front glazing evenings
where a fireplace becomes a chilled shelter
of sh...
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Categories: rimmed, sad, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberRemember

...The past is like a lesson book,
Into which those who are wise look.
The insights gained inform their view,
as they assess the current milieux.

The past we know is not too kind
To those who blo...
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Categories: rimmed, character, future, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDirty Bucket

...When I wrote it down 
I could see that it was a silly thing 
to have on a bucket list.
Something to forever keep to the self
(low hanging fruit pocked with worms).
Never to be touched by anythin...
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Categories: rimmed, courage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Grindstone

...A red-rimmed sun of summer,
of the sweat of the workers,
the salt of their brows.
Shoulders to the grindstone,
the strength of sinew and muscle,
hours of their labors.
The Lord of their lives
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Categories: rimmed, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Room of the Unrequited

...The Room of the Unrequited
By Roger White
    That evening, stillness permeated the lavender-scented room.  Dusk crept through the windows
smudged by oily fingers, The day’s twilight left a dull u...
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Categories: rimmed, 12th grade, destiny, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

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