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Satchel Poems - Poems about Satchel

Premium Memberfeelings toward her teddy bear

...He was parked on top of a worn satchel in Omaha
In the middle of a train station, so lah-dee-dah
Where was his child? He began to scream for his ma.
She ran up and grabbed him by his fluffy padded...
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Categories: satchel, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIts vandalisam, its more than uncouth'

...Let me recount of the mirrored alcoves galleries of brands
Whiskeys deep gold many types of bottles into optic feeds
Highly polished bar timbertops rich shining deep.' Varied
Paper coasters to kee...
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Categories: satchel, absence, abuse, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAfternoon Soiree

...Afternoon Soiree


a radiant sunflower adorned her reddish hair
while she was sitting in her hardback chair.

she asked me for a block of cheddar cheese
so, she could eat it with some ease.

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Categories: satchel, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Dreamland

...In Dreamland's dazzling domain, where fairytales unfurl, A youth yonder yearned, with heart that hoped to hurl, Himself into the hinterland, a hero's journey to embark, To chase the chimeras of chang...
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Categories: satchel, dream, Lullaby,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberI Can Move Mountains

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As the ‘tick-tock’ sound falls in my ears, and its incessant refrain drops like a thud,
My memory unwinds to years fled when we grew up under our parental roof.

Plodding miles through count...
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Categories: satchel, appreciation, love, sister,
Form: Free verse



Second Childhood

...I am a child again 
I know no loss or gain 
Oft oblivious of pain
Till I  conscious regain. 

Do I wake or sleep, 
I see the stars weep
As they crackers peep,
Am I awake or asleep?

I giggl...
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Categories: satchel, age,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCami the Inventor Witch

...Cami is an inventor, a genius, a marvel said the witch
We let her do things her way, never used a belt or a switch
She grew up knowing she was the best of the best
School was nothing to her, she o...
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Categories: satchel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Zen Death Haiku X

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU X

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

Forbearing the night
with its growing brilliance: 
the summer moon.
—Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , lo...
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Categories: satchel, age, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberAn Acute Ache

..."Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
        can you hear the whispering? " 
                                    Quote by _Constance La France

Your ancestors had built me, brick by bric...
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Categories: satchel, house, life, old, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEaster Bunny Delivers

...Easter bunny is delivering eggs of course.
But he is also bringing us a duck, salamander and a horse.
In his small satchel? Asked our mother in surprise.
Unsure, but he should be here right after ...
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Categories: satchel, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBig Cat Waits For His Opportunity

...Mice were creeping along with their loot tonight.
One had a satchel of cheese; another’s burden was light.
Is that the grain then? Or the popcorn or what?
A third mouse crept by, carrying a bag on...
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Categories: satchel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberNew Family At School

...A new family moves to neighborhood school.
Children are in kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth
Six boys and one girl
Atchel, Satchel, Batchel, Ratchel, Datchel, Matchel and...
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Categories: satchel, teacher,
Form: Free verse

A Song With No Name

...A Song With no Name
From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me.
It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago.
The melody was s...
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Categories: satchel, father, grandfather, music, song,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSatchel of Ordinaries

...I sat quietly staring out the porthole window
As we were passing over a village in the low hills
A cumulus cloud casting over its ominous shadow
Far below in the silence of the engine’...
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Categories: satchel, flying, imagination, people, places,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOpen the Floodgates

...(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)

 As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, l...
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Categories: satchel, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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