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Staples Poems - Poems about Staples

Bridges
...Distance, even for a short while, still is Whether it’s a river or a stream, you still need a bridge But bridges burn And even when they don’t They weather They rot They fall apart so slowly Y......

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Categories: staples, betrayal, conflict, friendship, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slab City Crisis Tamed
... Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest ************************* City hum drifts through spurious ways, teeming in a wild, woody w......

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Categories: staples, angst, city,
Form: Free verse



Branded Y2K
...Yankee-two-kilo Yankee-two-kilo Can you read me? Y2K The year 2000's on the way The new millennium's almost here To write January 1, 2000 will be weird Star Trek's beam me up Scottie was A fa......

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Categories: staples, appreciation, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Property Of
...My pencil isn’t really mine Because it says, instead, That it’s the “Property of NYC Bd of Ed.” I taught in New York City schools And, once I had retired, There were some school supplies tha......

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Categories: staples, school,
Form: Rhyme
Happiness is a new wireless mouse
...Happiness is a new wireless mouse I bought from Staples earlier today November 18th, 2024 cuz the the older one malfunctioned. Said older generation mouse sported a rather extensive "mouse c......

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Categories: staples, 1st grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hurricane Helene
... Some lost their lights, the brilliance Electricity, burning through the night Inviting, inspiring, igniting our lives. Some lost their water, the gentle flow Source of hope and wonder, ......

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Categories: staples, death, rain, storm, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Spinal Decompression Surgery
... I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember It was the day that I had my spinal decompression surgery And hopefully it wou......

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Categories: staples, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme
I Don'T Want To Die
...I don’t want to die, the spring doves cried. Down the streets and coffee shops each step in the pavement whittles it down bit by bit. I don’t want to die, the flyers say, through ten laye......

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Categories: staples, 12th grade, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Adhesives
...Adhesives come in many forms – There’s glue and tape and paste, Including some that double-stick, If you’ve no time to waste. There also are some methods Which will help things to adhere In ......

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Categories: staples, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Round As a Balloon
...Sugar Frosted Flakes and Trix Staples of healthy diets Cocoa Puffs and Cap'n Krunch My sister said to try it... Now I'm round as a balloon My arms and legs stick out And whe......

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Categories: staples, food, giggle, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unhurried
...I'm happy here Curled up at the end Of my smallest daughter's bed My head on a spare Squishmallow If I want I can look at her beautiful Little face To leave, I'll step over Possibly 100 toy......

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Categories: staples, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Critterature: Entomophagy, It's An Acquired Taste
...The cooks in the Japanese navy Make a dish of aquatic fly larvae. Too small to filet them, They just lightly sauté them In well-sugared soy sauce as gravy. That Venezuelans eat spiders may be ......

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Categories: staples, food, humor, insect,
Form: Light Verse
I Hope You Don'T Forget Me
...Thirteen years old when you started to forget, first little things, from losing your keys and not knowing your way home, to not remember your own father's name, my heart fills with regret, and I......

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Categories: staples, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
As the Mirror Photographs Eyes
...As the mirror photographs eyes, Tongues running laps read glazed signs, Broken phone calls your label Talking fire cuts fixed cable, Voices piling in rooms behind. Snapshotting darkness as I......

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Categories: staples, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Duplicity of the Wind
...The wind seems a song of placidity As it passes through the meadow near But I know it’s a harbinger of treachery Soon, from sudden blasts of Arctic air. They say a snowstorm is immi......

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Categories: staples, weather, wind,
Form: Quatrain

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