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Smidge Poems - Poems about Smidge

Dinner's A Chore

...DINNER’S A CHORE

Dinner, my turn, nothing in the fridge
Off to market, be gone a smidge
Car won’t start, battery’s dead
Jump it, full steam ahead
Old gossips in the aisle, won’t move aside
‘S...
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Categories: smidge, rude,
Form: Rhyme

Small and Simple Wins the Race

...Grace once took me by the throat 
And squeezed until I gave up Pride,
But Pride remained still unprovoked 
As will began to slowly die

So faith stepped up and begged for hope 
But hope preferr...
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Categories: smidge, faith, hope, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



ADHD - Our rainbow

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The red in us is our fierce, tenacious high energy
Passion like a fire, 
a real warmth to our personality
The green is the spring in our step
and our coolest composure under pressure
We ...
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Categories: smidge, adventure, poems, poetry, rainbow,
Form: Free verse

From my window seat

...“This is a familiar route and one of the most common ones (at least to my seasoned eyes; you may find it beautiful)” — overheard.

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A day like any other,
but also
a day like no ...
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Categories: smidge, car, feelings, freedom, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHAIR

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A tumble of flowers and soon you look amazing dear hair 
with just a smidge of lovely perfume you can scent the air 

A little beret on the side and suddenly you look magnificent
when I gathe...
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Categories: smidge, hair,
Form: Other



Premium MemberThe 4th of Christmas-ween - I Almost Tossed it Out

...Here's a cautionary tale that must be told.
Listen to me, be you young or old:
after something has long been growing mold,
don't ever say (this wisdom, I strongly tout),
"I almost tossed...
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Categories: smidge, christmas, halloween, humor, independence
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHaunted House

...I don't see anything on cable, 
so I sit down at the table - 
another night alone I think.
I guess I'll have another drink.

What? The doorbell rings, and there
some ghostly figures then declar...
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Categories: smidge, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membera song for oppy

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spun …

the dust devil did
(unusually strong, that)
but instead of leaving another layer of
light-blocking powder
it cleaned the solar panels like
Windex and microfibre -
shiny … as new
th...
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Categories: smidge, analogy, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBarefoot on Boulders-Number 5

...(Number 5)

Smiles rise over the ridge.
Courts creek, a childhood dream.
Commonsense, not even a smidge.
Barefoot on boulders, eyes agleam.
Staggering sight of matchstick bridge.
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Categories: smidge, adventure, childhood, imagery,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSEATTLE TO OLYMPIC DAY 4

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From visiting Seattle to seeing whales from the port side of a ship… 
so many new experiences keep cropping up this trip…

We crossed the Puget Sound on a giant Ferry boat…
then drove across th...
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Categories: smidge, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberQuacks Like A Duck

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I've written about chickens with big fat legs
Told of eating my way through the fridge
My psychiatrist says I'm really quite normal
Though I feel unbalanced, a smidge

I've heard of ...
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Categories: smidge, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSense and Sensibility

... We are commonly predisposed 
To lack of common sense - case closed!


We seem to have it all and more and some, 
Well nourished and beyond, stern doctors say. 
Internet mis/informed by...
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Categories: smidge, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Scared, Really Scared

...It’s there in the darkest corner of his room 
there where he takes off his shoes and socks and just leaves them
the place that his Mom said that she is going to leave as is from now on
it’s just s...
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Categories: smidge, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberA Wink From Afar

...soon to bid 
another farewell, yet,
you've already unearthed
a smidge of sad longing 
buried too deep within 
to excavate.
as our sizea...
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Categories: smidge, appreciation, imagery, longing, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

By Just a Smidge

...I may be 5 foot 9 but by the time
I have to reach over my middle tire
A skinny person of let’s say 5 feet
might reach things a couple inches higher

Those tricky top shelves are strictly for thi...
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Categories: smidge, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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