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Smidgeon Poems - Poems about Smidgeon

Premium MemberAsking My Granddaughter About Her Major in College

...I do not have a smidgeon of an idea
Speaker is my teenage granddaughter Rhea
I thought you were a senior in college, I say.
She nods her head, agreeing straight away.

Don’t you have to declare ...
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Categories: smidgeon, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Every fibre

...See how they run
for every birthday they besmirch
See how they stand steadfast
isn't that a sad thing
Although my heart is crying
my soul is dying
Hear their laughter, every smidgeon
every fib...
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Categories: smidgeon, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMystical Epiphany

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Written: January 12, 2024
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Their buzzing goes unabated
the cool air scent of lavender
in this unfathomable cosmos
where dreams ar...
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Categories: smidgeon, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSoar Up To The Sky

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Written: December 13, 2023
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If the ocean's water
were used as writing ink for pens
to write down our words of praise
the oce...
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Categories: smidgeon, appreciation, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Dream

...Written: September 06, 2023
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I wander i...
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Categories: smidgeon, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cute
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberA Look Inward At Darkness In the Mortal Soul

...A Look Inward At Darkness In The Mortal Soul

Strange now rests overburdened seas and hapless stars
Undiscovered jungle villages that think all earth is flat
Those that slow walk total blindness ...
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Categories: smidgeon, art, creation, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSelf-Dilution

...We lament for what others can see.
a sense of self-congruity.
We yearn to be purified of flaws.
Also, sorting through the abuse.
grabs a hold of it via an inaccurate immersion.
utter...
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Categories: smidgeon, analogy, bereavement, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEnd of An Uncertain Year

...The end of another year of much uncertainty
As we sifted through mounds of propaganda,
Watching folks line up to espouse their ardency
The end of another year of much uncertainty,
Many...
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Categories: smidgeon, how i feel,
Form: Triolet

O Curse of a Century

...O curse of a century

O Calamity of a century,
Enough thieving of precious human life,
Keen we’re to see thy date of expiry.

As plague ye came, hoary thy history,
Unleashing a terror of grave...
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Categories: smidgeon, anxiety, grief, world,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberNoah Flood

...My strange tears.
The genie's eyes, oh genie's eyes.
Gather the sun's spears.
Be careful not to step on the thistles of fear.
Plaits are used to create the form.
To achieve a slimmer epitome.
Y...
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Categories: smidgeon, absence, adventure, beach, boat,
Form: Free verse

Certain Days

...Certain days feel much longer than long
With too much in the world that is wrong
But I don’t have a clue
If there’s more we can do
Than just suck it all up and be strong.

For complaining accom...
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Categories: smidgeon, today,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberCreatures All Over Her House

...I walked up to the door and stopped surprised.
There were three creatures there before my eyes.
A handsome dog, a fluffy cat, and a most casual deer.
None of them moved or had a smidgeon of fear.
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Categories: smidgeon, animal, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Some Other That

...I am in this place
and you are in that.
I suspect you are in a different place,
one I have yet to recall, or visit.

Same goes for my dog, but now and again
her wet nose in my ear wakes me up
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Categories: smidgeon, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Creature Features

...THE MEERKAT
Meerkats are delightful beasts,
Arousing warm affection
They stand in groups discrete
Looking in the same direction

COW
How now brown cow
A bestowal to the world art thou
Miracl...
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Categories: smidgeon, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Smidgeon Too Much Rum

...shhhh...please don't tell Jan I tattled on her.

Did you hear 'bout Jan's custard a-la-plum
While making it she drank far too much rum
while on her wobbly legs
put mustard in the eggs
It was wr...
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Categories: smidgeon, drink, silly,
Form: Limerick

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