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Slumped Poems - Poems about Slumped

Conquered, Part VIII
...His head slumped low and he looked like a most unhappy man, said, “My peoples’ laws forbid it, both of us would be hanged.” She rolled her eyes and said, “I’ not talking laws of this earth, I know......

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Categories: slumped, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden......

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Categories: slumped, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



The Bar on Beer Street and Gin Lane
...They gather where the signs hang crooked, under gaslight glare and broken clocks, where the barkeep’s eyes are twin shot glasses— fogged, but watching. Gin Lane rolls in on tired boots, her la......

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Categories: slumped, abuse, addiction, depression, drink,
Form: Free verse
Whispers Between the Circles
...In the dim-lit dusk of a shattered world, where shadows gather but souls do not meet, I wandered—a hollow echo of Virgil’s path— between the ruins of ambition and ash. “This is the way the worl......

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Categories: slumped, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Pocketful of Sunshine
...They come with pockets full of sunshine, yellow pills like dying stars, scattered along Kensington’s broken spine— this avenue of hollow breaths and burnt-out dreams. Neon signs flicker in the ......

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Categories: slumped, abuse, addiction, america, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Bloody Valentine
...*Vaaz= vase You offered roses delivered thorns, blood drips and your body adorns ~ Slumped, soaked in crimson your heart forever mine, retribution has come, my bloody valentine—by Poet ......

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Categories: slumped, death, love hurts, valentines
Form: Rhyme
Last Exam: A Sijo of Sorts
...My exam is over and everyone is plugged in on phones earbuds in, except for him, who sleeps, slumped on desk, bag in front with me the only one who can hear him snoring. ......

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Categories: slumped, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Adrenaline Junket
...The vague and the abstract turned into a contract, adrenaline junkies, now joined in a dare. With hands up, no screaming, they’d both go careening, defying gravity at the State Fair. W......

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Categories: slumped, flying, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Jelly Jill and Sister Jill
...J.J. sat quietly in the library, Thumbing through a stack of books, looking quite contrary— Jack Be Nimble, Jack Sprat, Little Jack Horner, and Jack and Jill, Sifting through, trying not to make n......

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Categories: slumped, dog, imagination, nostalgia, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Two Worlds
...When I was little, life was supposed to be filled with laughter, sticky fingers from melting ice cream, and afternoons lost in make-believe, toy cars and plastic dinosaurs battling in the living ......

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Categories: slumped, family,
Form: Free verse
Point
... The disgruntled mess of a boy slumped over his diary ——————experiment 4————————— If you are reading this I might be dead So as far as I can see I seem to aging at a normal It seems to degr......

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Categories: slumped, poems,
Form: Free verse
Point
... The disgruntled mess of a boy slumped over his diary ——————experiment 4————————— If you are reading this I might be dead So as far as I can see I seem to aging at a normal It seems to degr......

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Categories: slumped, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sultry is the Breathless Air
...No one lit a match. no lamp spilled, the air kept kindling its hot heart, it pulsed red all day The heat-heavy evening slumped toward a simmering earth, clouds began to roil, they swirled, ......

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Categories: slumped, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Voice was Calling
... I realized with tearful eye all my friends had left or died Thinking I was now alone I slumped down on a bitter throne When I awoke a voice was calling from somew......

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Categories: slumped, god, morning, spiritual, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Being on the Outside
... It was easy in the end, to get up and go out into the garden and feel the patched sunlight shine and blink upon my face, take in the crisp smell of damp earth and leaf left after the rain. ......

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Categories: slumped, love, pain, self,
Form: Free verse

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