Shoved Poems - Poems about Shoved

... never loved cat ways their tail-flicking arrogance their unasked-for gaze my family longed for one — I yielded, keeping distance stray kitten arrived they all fawned gushed over it but the......

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...The cage creaks upward. The ancient Otis, ascends slowly from a first floor past. He dreams on... Outside the remembered apartment the fat round nipple of the doorbell reminds him of her - ......

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...They make the stereotype of the loud and angry black woman seem bad But why has nobody questioned who made us like that The language they use to belittle us Our mouths hand stitched with silence ......

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...I shoved the priest into the white van. The night-vision goggles and rubber gloves had scared the crap out of him. When I let him out for a piss he was still raving: how was I ever going to ge......

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...An isolating darkness looms: A numb yet tingled skin; And residues of twilight's gloom, As walls unseen close in. This place feels sharp, yet vague and stale; The clash stirs strife within. M......

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... Written: July 06, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Craig Cornish ***************** My path was unkempt, with cracked and bent signs The once-azure sky turned gray, and ......

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... I’m not sure what happens after this but I don’t think it’s anything grand. I don’t think we meet again, if we ever even make it. And if we do, would you still want to? I’ve worn this versi......

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...I remember the night he tore me from light, From the home of a friend to the jaws of the night. A grip like a vice, no mercy, no grace, My head in a whirl, blood drained from my face. He curse......

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...Hot desert days, scared— but can’t show it. Eyes sharp, hands steady, but the heart’s in a fist, shoved somewhere behind the plate carrier. Brothers have my back, and my heart. They’re the ......

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... plane, bus 'n train elevators 'n escalators revelers 'n sale-day crowds is where we meet STRANGERS! looking away, with no eye-to-eye contact no nod, wink, grunt of 'Hi's', never ever recogn......

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...I am all the people who came before me And I am all the people who will come after me This is an ode to all of our ancestors Just because we don't all share the same blood Does not not mean that w......

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...chunks of dirt mingle with the bread. cinnamon wafting in the wind. a house of sugary bliss, a promising deal of sweet paradise. shoveling savories like a last meal-- bellies rising like dough......

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... Kansas dawn, a new life just begun, A street lumper's world, where muscles strained and spun. Associated Wholesale, my first hard-earned dime, Hombre!s hand that led me conquering space and ti......

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...MARTY KING when i needed a friend all skies were black my head could only bend down i could never look up then came you as sunshine i realized that you were God's Sign light came into the da......

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...And even SHOVED I say! For the love of my life threw me away. It happened too fast-- Quicker than a flash-- And now, alone in the bed, I lay. Oh, but she couldn't just let things be, Couldn't......

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