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Stave Off Poems - Poems about Stave Off

Premium Member Soul-Trapping Mirrors
...amid muck and mire of a storm swamp ~ shadows dance below chartreuse skies mirrors labyrinth stifles our souls quest; holding reflections of lovelorn dreams, maxims and myths that fall may wre......

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Categories: stave off, analogy, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cold Embrace of Death
... I love the cold as I lay beneath my feather doodah, or chill-out in my warm down-filled wind cheater. I love to run through fields of ice and snow with steam expelling from my mouth with eve......

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Categories: stave off, cool, life, weather,
Form: Free verse



April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul which rocketed into aerospace (courtesy General Electric satellite) just a tad shy of fif......

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Categories: stave off, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse
The downplayed hazard of swallowing vitamins a -z
...The downplayed hazard of swallowing vitamins a -z Ofttimes, I nearly find myself choking, and frantically beck-kin ing for immediate intervention in vain, and my time is a piece of wax falling......

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Categories: stave off, absence, adventure, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
more gift cards
...More gift cards What is it with people and the money they dream of I’m not a money person, cash in hand is ok Perhaps a small account is enough for everyday use to repair a puncture. A family f......

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Categories: stave off, absence, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC



Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic
...Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth, thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world birthed cocka......

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Categories: stave off, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Life: Seventh-Grade Art Teacher Gets High Marks
... I'm a woman now. I have means to be mean and get away with it. He died—too fast for my liking. I’d already hired a detective, ready to face it— or at least harass the details of th......

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Categories: stave off, absence, anger, child,
Form: Free verse
Rather than crank up the heat
...Rather than crank up the heat... and ratchet up global warming like bubbling vegetable stew with tsk... tsk... heard courtesy Greta Thunberg, who would utter "how dare you..." I bundle with......

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Categories: stave off, adventure, angel, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press
...I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press... for enlightening my senses to the evocative, reciprocative and suffocative auditory and visual material publicized in The Nation magazine J......

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Categories: stave off, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
...The following fictitious scenario I evoke Analogous to fire breathing puffed up imaginary dragon (in a land called Honah Lee) ye might rightly think what the deuce haunting spectre ace of sp......

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Categories: stave off, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memory's Souvenirs
... I laud precious memories when cold nights prevail. Those that fan love's flames against Winter winds for in those images my lonely heart beats again, if only an interlude where grief holds n......

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Categories: stave off, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I would pull the sun down from the skies
...Given armor to stave off the burning, I would pull the sun down from the skies Falling away from heavens light is showing me you are numb to this blistering pain; without feeling it, you and I will......

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Categories: stave off, angst, confusion, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Extra Extra Read all about it
..."Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" Not a crock of ... but bull heave me, you heard (read) right here from me the horse's mouth, who never neigh says, cuz Trump (unexpectedly) nixed presidenti......

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Categories: stave off, adventure, america, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Victorious flirtatious foreplay
...Victorious flirtatious foreplay I awoke early - now my body will sleep, though thoughts rise like the Azores of snuggling next to such an adorable atomic bombshell of a beauty - boars into my ......

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Categories: stave off, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now... despite entrenched familiar obsessive compulsive disorder behavior distracting me courtesy countless what if scenarios, particularly before und......

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Categories: stave off, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

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