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Shiftless Poems - Poems about Shiftless

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I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks
...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks... studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe My utmost humblest apology for inducing the following cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium, but ......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Toll Tell Tale
...“toll tell tale” you’re the dead ringer i the shiftless nightshift dweller listlessly listening for thee......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Shall Not Want
...We were both seniors, but he was some 21 years my senior. Ken was A most dear friend who passed away a couple of years ago. I was spilling my heart out to him one day as we drove along in the v......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gone Fishing
... shiftless louies constant wish for a new satellite dish made his wife stammer in her best grammar come home once you caught a fish. ......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, anxiety, cheer up, fishing,
Form: Limerick



Loud
...Thunderous, roaring, booming, deafening A hit so good got 'em begging Begging for more, just pulling 'em in with magnetism Hitting so LOUD causing astigmatism Now, vision for the future is di......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, abuse, addiction, community, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Before
...The Night Before Friends, I thought I would re-post this for the holiday season for a little chuckle! T 'was the night before Christmas and all through the house You can hear the wife calli......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vagabond Dreams
...When I was young I had dreams,  dreams to go here and there. ......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, dream, fun, life, marriage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Zeitgeist
...Social media on fleek Prolific likes and praise we seek Knowledge of 'SELF' is as distant as a stranger in the night A nomad in a dark, desolate land so void of divine light Social distancin......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, america, angst, feelings, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Mammogram
...Ode To A Mammogram Checking the calendar for appointments to be made I come across a giant circle that I placed there yearly take another day off work and dress for the parade I’ve lost a lis......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, women,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before
...Friends, I thought I would re-post this for the holiday season T 'was the night before Christmas and all through the house You can hear the wife calling me a louse The stocking are hung on the ......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curiosity's Footprints
...Walking in curiosity's footprints, I wander through life like a beachcomber. But I seek wit above trinkets and chintz, tracking thinkers and poets like Homer. Many see me as a shiftless r......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dizain
Swept Away
...Households unhitch so readily. We watch incredulous as they float off, hulls creaking, rafters cracking like wind-lashed rigging. Where we once believed roots gripped bedrock now shiftless bo......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Transported: 15 Year Old Poems and Older Number 4
...TRANSPORTATION, A POETRY LESSON OF HISTORY Transplanted, unwittingly, an invasive plant Transported – the ship itself – to foreign port Far, far away from welcome, the known – So far and foreign,......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, africa, america, career, hate,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Before
...T 'was the night before Christmas and all through the house You can hear the wife calling me a louse The stocking are hung on the mantle with care In hopes that presents might soon be there Mama ......Read the rest...
Categories: shiftless, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

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