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Salt Shaker Poems - Poems about Salt Shaker

Premium Member The Gravity of Whom and When
... I learned to smile with grit in my teeth, as I watched the waves, come in, and go out. They made a hollow in the sand, left behind when the tide rushed out. For whom is this hole? I dip in......

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Categories: salt shaker, beach,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE CAR BOMB THAT ENDED MY LIFE FBI ARSON AND CAR BOMB DIVISION
...FIRE! UPDATED 1998 IN 2021 BY COVERUPS PAYOFFS GARGANO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH MEMORIAL DAY 1999 THE CAR BOMB THAT ENDED MY LIFE AT LEAST AS I'VE KNOWN IT ON THIS DAY THE SKY WAS SO BLUE RIDING ALONG C......

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Categories: salt shaker, america, feelings, health, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member he fell in love with dancing feet
...She had feet that danced the fanciest dances He stared as they created magic up and down the floor He had never seen such feet. He was entranced, enthralled, excited She enthused, inspired and em......

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Categories: salt shaker, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall In Love With Yourself
... 9/17/2023 At times, we simply just do not think! We just adore other poets and their ink? Have you taken time, looking into your soul? Read your......

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Categories: salt shaker, confidence, encouraging, perspective, poets,
Form: Couplet
30 Years Ago
...At my desk I pause to the minute at 11:30 am August 22nd 30 years later To remember who we were When we wedded Back then Bought what we could afford But with a colorful splash of class ......

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Categories: salt shaker, beautiful, children, husband, love,
Form: Free verse



Be Like John Wayne
...Written April 14, 2017 It's easy to fall in love Even easier to break apart I've been trying for six long years To mend this broken heart You used to talk to me so sweet My bigge......

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Categories: salt shaker, death, family, grandfather, grief,
Form: Lyric
Edward Hyde's Sanctuary
...ACT I Night enters. Ned Sandy: paralysed in eye by gun shot. Scene: Mannequin with rotting limbs “Deadman on the Freeway.” And instead of being the good guy, he’s good, bad, worse. Why kil......

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Categories: salt shaker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kitty Fluffy Thanksgiving Plate
...Kitty Fluffy and her Thanksgiving plate Invited us to dine, yelling “Don’t be late!” Kitty was welcoming, her plate was absurd. We are having a twenty pound turkey, a hideous bird! That plate i......

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Categories: salt shaker, cat, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To De Words
...There was a time when words were derived, not slovenly crafted with prefixes. When drain meant to let the water out. When cast from window, meant to throw it out. That was before the arrival of d......

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Categories: salt shaker, language,
Form: Ode
Mini Earthquake Experiences
...Experienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago) My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa And now this puny earthquak......

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Categories: salt shaker, environment, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Words Specifically
...Collecting words has resulted into a lifetime of gathering. now I am choosing which words to send you; I send you choice words on special days, and specific words on chosen days. I share words ......

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Categories: salt shaker, emo, extended metaphor, simile,
Form: Free verse
The Woman You Never Tell, Anyone You Know
...is a dusty rippled salt shaker, an old working girl found busy or on a stroll, in a brothel house my grandmother said was often around, when people sold what they could to survive. See her ......

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Categories: salt shaker, body, girl, imagery, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Do Not Eat Salt
...I do not eat salt, she says haughtily Making me want to pour a salt shaker into my mouth I appease myself by devouring a family sized bag of potato chips Unsalted? Ha! Right! Chocolate does not......

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Categories: salt shaker, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Depart Mental Genius
...What a catastrophic place There's no up or down in this space To see it is a multitude of discombobulated grace There are papers piled high upon my desk The only thing others see is a god-awful......

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Categories: salt shaker, fun, happy, house,
Form: Rhyme
A Grandmother Kangaroo's Pouch
... When Grandmother Kangaroo goes for a visit, She takes twenty teacakes, and old alarm clocks. Her pouch could contain a tiara exquisite, Mint toothpaste, her quilting, and pink jagged roc......

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Categories: salt shaker, animal, grandmother, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

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