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Shuffles Poems - Poems about Shuffles

Stone Cold and Heartbroken
...In the quiet of my lonely room, Your laughter echoes, a distant tune, Time zones stretch, and miles divide, A love once close now feels like a sigh. Letters linger, words on the screen,......

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Categories: shuffles, heartbreak, heartbroken, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
The Beat of My Heart
...Without a word I slip out of bed and a thousand conversations run through my mind as I walk barefoot across worn carpeting. Two nights ago, I barely made it home while driving through a deluge......

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Categories: shuffles, appreciation, good morning, how
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Fulcrum of a rose
... Written: June 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker Line of inquiry: track where lies the fulcrum of the fragrance of a rose, then likewise find within your soul....

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Categories: shuffles, analogy, cheer up, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Fab Four is no more
... The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders.. Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations... Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers.. Listen…whispers of willow wizardry......

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Categories: shuffles, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member unintended innuendo
...“as we passed her she did wilt which caused in us sense of guilt since our stance perhaps did cause to put her heart’s joy on pause though we’re gentle, not hostile we diminished her soul’s sm......

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Categories: shuffles, angst, city, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Hedged In
...They are under the hedge, the elderly, the silver whiskered. Threadbare possums, frail chipmunks. The feeble, squeezed into narrow parts of the day. Her apartment is hedged in. Her telephone i......

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Categories: shuffles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member iMan - Apr 13
...Observe the modern generations walk on by; they suckle from the plastic teat of coffee cups, and stumped by stamping feet they shamble unaware from flock to flock.— infant adults—if earnest I m......

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Categories: shuffles, addiction, humor, identity, parody,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Murmur
...My father's heart beats beneath the baseboards of my chest What scares me isn't the furnace inside it It isn't all the hate and ignorance It shuffles on its cane Buh bump Buuuuuuh bump Buhbu......

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Categories: shuffles, angst, anxiety, death, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wish Upon A Cay
...I've always wished to live on an island. No problem with sacrificing deceit and shallow dialogue for the song of gull and sanity bowls of lye and cold for pans of warmth the soothing sand ......

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Categories: shuffles, immigration,
Form: Free verse
How The Echo Filters Reality
...It starts with a hum, a thread unspooling through silence - soft, sure, and annoyingly insistent, like the world is whispering secrets it’s dared me to misunderstand. The first echo hits, ric......

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Categories: shuffles, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
... My hand splits the deck, divides the weight of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate. At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts like safety-grade stars scattered between laps, a......

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Categories: shuffles, allusion, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MY CLASSMATES
... My classmates Theresa Trot had a snot Hanging from her nose She sniffs and snorts and swallows But Theresa never blows. Now it’s run down past her lips And settled on ......

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Categories: shuffles, 2nd grade, childhood, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Outside Looking Inn
...Hiding again from the dazzling sun Why am I here, I’ve no clue There’s no necessity to walk around No urgent business to do Sounds like I’m killing the time, but I’m not It is exactly the opposi......

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Categories: shuffles, england, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Furrows of Life
... The weary ploughman shuffles along the deserted bridle path, his day-long work completed, furrows wound around his piece of land, just arable enough to provide his daily bread. His dreary sh......

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Categories: shuffles, life,
Form: Free verse
The Blessing
...Was not the words he wrote, nor the words he spoke . . . rather the song he sang of hope that brought him before the Pope. As he stood in the rain he searched not for fame . ......

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Categories: shuffles, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

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