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Spines Poems - Poems about Spines

Last Days in the Empire
...Spoken Word: “Last Days in the Empire” By Alejandro Diego Z. MA Psych Is America the Next Babylon? They built this dream on a haunted field, Blood in the bricks, but the scars don’t heal. ......

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Categories: spines, america, bible, destiny, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burma-Shave
...They stood like rhymes on fencepost spines with wisdom scrawled in shaving thymes— a roadside gospel, terse and sweet that preached with meter, grit, and heat. Rosemary likes a clean-shave......

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Categories: spines, america, childhood, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Shrunken Head and Other Mysteries
...In the book nook I found it— a face no bigger than my palm, leathered and silent, its eyes forever pressed shut against whatever it had seen. Grandma said a missionary friend brought it back fr......

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Categories: spines, childhood, grandmother, image, memory,
Form: Free verse
FORGE AHEAD
... FORGE AHEAD Forge ahead, spines are steel anger, tragedy, treachery heal betrayal merely a step on ladders Golden Age arises, Kali Age passes fragrant oysters in Bloomsbury Blue man......

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Categories: spines, age, blue, change, character,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fear Will Breed Hate
..."Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater." -George Washington Carver "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they ......

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Categories: spines, emotions, fear, hate,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member Ironies Within Ironies
...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research......

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Categories: spines, education, irony,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Husband Compliments
...She is a self-driving car. As far as the farthest object, my eyes cannot believe she is Captain of a spaceship that she built from spent foil paper rolls. The aluminium was self-made. Books a......

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Categories: spines, for her, identity, me,
Form: Ode
Before
...I am the pause in a planet’s breath, a glitch in the code between birth and death. I am the whisper in fungal lace, routing news through forest space. I’m tectonic gossip, slow and deep, a qua......

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Categories: spines, i am,
Form: Lyric
My Encyclopedia Days
... The weighty volumes lined up row on row, A universe of knowledge waiting to bestow Its secrets vast in bindings strong and deep, A silent promise, wisdom it would keep. Remember pulling ......

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Categories: spines, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Chicano's Vitula and the Prickly Pear Collector r
... Higo M Chumbo By Sostenuto de Cencerro occurring in the same syllable. ......

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Categories: spines, adventure, beautiful, character, culture,
Form: Classicism
There exists no slave of Hecate
...There is no slave of Hecate it’s sea soft shell saves and covers me though no bliss unaware but the pull of her hair drags her back to reality though sand soft curves It limestone hurts yo......

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Categories: spines, courage, god, mythology, women,
Form: Free verse
du Maurier
...The door opens, but I am not the new Mrs. de Winter, just an awkward shadow slipping into normalcy, where words are thicker than hardcovers— silence clinging like dust to the spines of books wit......

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Categories: spines, appreciation, books, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
A ghost that lingers in my spirit
...In the city of dread, Lies a haunted, ghostly homestead. The masonry draped in cascade of red, Shared a foul, rot & putrid smell as he's dead. Deeply I endured & tried hard to encroach, A sigh......

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Categories: spines, death, heartbreak, horror, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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Categories: spines, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Annotating
...The deep, heartfelt ache, heaviness piled onto shoulders; the feeling of unattainable past experiences, the moments of mere temporary bliss, the unavoidable changes. No permanency tacked down,......

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Categories: spines, literature,
Form: Free verse

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