Short Chipped Poems

Chipped white enamel
Yet the basin still holds water
Beauty in scars....

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Your disc has a skip
Shooting haiku from the hip….
Don’t knock off my chip...

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He was somewhat enamored,
with salt and vinegar
he chipped away his health...

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chipped wood made useful 
flower beds bring out colors 
blooming spring flowers...

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Little Girl Manicure

Pink enamel
bitten to
remnants of lacquer
not quite chipped
away.

Kathryn McL. Collins
September 29, 2013...

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In sacred gardens,
your heirloom roses ascend,
the chipped-paint trellis—
in yesterday’s reflections,
where petals fell long ago...

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Cracked mirrors can’t waltz
Chipped from previous assaults
Just there to show faults

By Robb A. Kopp

All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Chipped nail polish on Halloween,
the witch’s giggle so obscene;
A mad cackle,
that fiery crackle;
It’s the next trend in the magazine....

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Beside the last pew, 
a chipped white collection plate.
A ghostly blessing
if you toss a modern coin
through time and the barred front door....

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Wisdom is
the pebble
remains
of a mountain
chipped
away.




7/27/2019

One Sentence Metaphor Free Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Jesse Rowe...

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So good night mama,
We're burying our dead
Another generation
In long neat rows
Of chipped, hard stone reflecting.
Their lives are gone.

The bankers live on....

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Barriers cracked and chipped with age
Once standing firm now tremble in rage.
To regain the solidity once defined
That now lies uncertain, its’ strength resigned....

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Barriers cracked and chipped with age
Once standing firm now tremble in rage.
To regain their solidity once defined,
That now lies uncertain,
Its’ strength resigned....

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Love is dirty
And the corners are chipped
Its not pristine
Like the songs depict
The signatures smudged
It's a broken seal
An imperfect copy
Of a perfect ideal...

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Downing
I'm drowning in my tears,
Being eaten by my fears.
Chipped away to the bone,
No light has shown.

Feeling so bold,
But Im stuck in the cold.
No light has shown....

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The life in the wood will be revealed by the wood carver.
Chipped away with chisel and mallet; wood displays its secrets.
Wood carvers release the spirits trapped within the wood....

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People break things, then toss them to the streets.
Things now abused were once held in high esteem.
chairs 
lamps
vanity
spotted rug
chipped bowl
sanity
All tossed to the streets...

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I'm a treble clef answer to a bass clef groan.
I'm a chipped Russian pitcher to a stereophone.
I'm integrity seeking and heart strung in sleep
I'm praying you know me and morality keep......

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The life in the wood will be revealed by the wood carver.
Chipped away with chisel and mallet; wood displays its secrets.
Wood carvers release the spirits trapped within the wood.

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Two special guys
Diamonds both
each irregular in a way
One a diamond
rough 'round the edges.
Another a diamond
chipped here and there
but even so
my sons-in law
are precious Gems 
despite the flaw....

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Biking through Salt Lake City
Homes of well knit, croquet stature
With Oxford fountains flowing
Forcibly pin my eye
I pedal a block to see streets missing teeth
Bank signs, chipped paint and amazon lawns...

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When the chipped china moon smiles tonight,
And calls to me like an old friend,
I will sleep safe, knowing that
My dreams will be filled with
The promise of your
Love, which lives in
Both the night
And the
Day....

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I like you all unpolished 
the words around three a.m.
the rawest version of you 
when your words are pounding hard 
all chipped with rough broken phrases  
the fortress crumbled slowly 
softly your pain pricked my eyes....

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This teapot, chipped and faded,
brings memories so dear,
of friendships made and secrets shared,
while sipping its fine brew.
This teapot chipped and faded.

Kim Merryman
8/4/15
For Nette's Prized Refrain Contest
#2 teapot...

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Comedic contortionist claims clubfeet;
consider carefully, circus clowns cheat.
Chico chipped Carson City's carved concrete
clumsily chiseling cheap cardboard containers.
Charlatans can calm capitol complainers
confounding Congressional campaigners.

July 6, 2022...

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