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Spackle Poems - Poems about Spackle

Premium MemberMemories of a Childhood Home

...My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white.

eyes delirious
dazzled, ...
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Categories: spackle, home, house, memory,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberCompartmentalization

...COMPARTMENTALIZATION 

Friends, absolutely believe why
not in the “Loony Bin?
Compartmentalized my stresses, 
so messes … not get in!

Compartments help me remember,
one illness at a time.
M...
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Categories: spackle, funny, hilarious, old, silly,
Form: Rhyme



He Supposed He Was a Self-Made Man

...He often thought to himself
that he has been too quickly assembled
that he should have taken more time
for the busy hands of his constructing mind
to fill-in the flaws, smooth-out the cracks,
pr...
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Categories: spackle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Sowing

...He dreams of thin chickens pecking at a dirt floor.
A big brown teapot is stuffed with scraps of poetry;
words waiting to be led out like bawling cattle
into the haze and dust.

As he does every...
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Categories: spackle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

March

...March wades in
ankle deep in the melt.
The edges of iron nights rust
turn into pyrite dawns.

Pewter rivers shimmer into silver 
fish-tailed coats
as the sunlight rolls down main street
windo...
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Categories: spackle, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Most Precious of All

...The Most Precious Of all.
.
With every single gifted heartbeat
And every single taken breath
I worship your very being and presence
With joyous smiling heart
Until I succumb to death
.
Thy co...
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Categories: spackle, appreciation, inspirational, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalloween Fun

...Howling and hooting sets the tone for tonight
Alabaster skin shows a child is full of fright
Lover’s lane is as creepy as artery’s spackle.
Laughter distorted as a witch’s cackle.
Omnivorous owls...
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Categories: spackle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberNo Tree Street Names

...He built motels
across America
loving the land so much
he could sleep anywhere
on her
in her
cheaply,
predictably.

Anywhere was home to him.
Home was not special
but same.
Same bars of s...
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Categories: spackle, family, father, self,
Form: Free verse

Freedom

...Its not hardship
Its surviving
Its not a journey
Its the way

Its not a tear
Its a spackle in the eye
Its not a yawn
Its waking up

Its not a sorrow
Its a pain
Its not birth
Its producti...
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Categories: spackle, adventure, art, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse

Messianic Zeal of This Good Humored Punster

...Messianic Zeal Of This Good Humored Punster...

Without making a
twit tarring buffoon, sans unshackle
irrepressible bone a fide
funny reaction, or appearing
the foolish spectacle

of myself, ...
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Categories: spackle, art, games, humorous, magic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThird Floor and Celery

...Third Floor

Reality distraction
staples in the wall of my loneliness
plastered over
to gain permanency
but as a lightweight spackle,
haphazardly poised on the rusty putty knife,
is used to s...
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Categories: spackle, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Pictures Off the Wall To Fall

...A UNKIND KIND OF KINDLING
  
I am taking pictures off the wall
Then taking them to the flame
I am burning each, every and all
Food for a fire fueled by blame

Snapshots that still have the sweet arom...
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Categories: spackle, angst, night, angel, fire,
Form: Terza Rima

I Killed Silver But Allowed My Scout To Live On

...AN UNKIND KIND OF KINDLING
  
I am taking pictures off the wall
Then taking them to the flame
I am burning each, every and all
Food for a fire fueled by blame

Snapshots that still have the sweet aro...
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Categories: spackle, angst, night, angel, fire,
Form: Quatrain

Okay I Admit It I Raped My Grandma

...A UNKIND KIND OF KINDLING
  
I am taking pictures off the wall
Then taking them to the flame
I am burning each, every and all
Food for a fire fueled by blame

Snapshots that still have the sweet arom...
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Categories: spackle, angst, night, angel, fire,
Form: Quatrain

How Did the Rat Get So Fat If All He Ate Was Crap

...A UNKIND KIND OF KINDLING
  
I am taking pictures off the wall
Then taking them to the flame
I am burning each, every and all
Food for a fire fueled by blame

Snapshots that still have the sweet arom...
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Categories: spackle, angst, night, angel, fire,
Form: Quatrain

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