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Spindleshanks Poems - Poems about Spindleshanks

As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise

...As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
Vultures swooped overhead
and preyed on my vulnerabilities
forcing me to carrion camping
as fine young cannibals
sharpened their knives
an...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse

Shayna Punim You came a long way baby

...Shayna Punim - You came a long way baby!

Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come February fourth,
two thousand and twenty five,
our lives (affect...
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Categories: spindleshanks, adventure, age, anniversary, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape

...Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape...
tell tale sign where
winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scene
(seldom seen around
tri-state geographic area
fo...
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Categories: spindleshanks, adventure, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze

..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.

Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories: spindleshanks, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale

...Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale

Living social amidst 
crime infested urban jungle 
bumping uglies cheek to jowl 
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors 
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Categories: spindleshanks, adventure, anger, animal, beach,
Form: Rhyme

Where art thou unknown spellcaster

...Where art thou unknown spellcaster?

If in fact such a female and/or male exists
an insufferable existence clamors for surcease
against riptide of ineradicable anguish.

Living hand to mouth
f...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...
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Categories: spindleshanks, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme

Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks

...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but ...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep

...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denou...
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Categories: spindleshanks, age, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent

...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounde...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Reaping Short Terms Benefits

...Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly pop...
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Categories: spindleshanks, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus

...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f...
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Categories: spindleshanks, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation

...Inextricably rooted with hair fixation

As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twan...
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Categories: spindleshanks, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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