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Stragglers Poems - Poems about Stragglers

Premium Member When The Space Between Stars is Not Empty
... Five light years is the average distance that separates any two stars - five light years of hydrogen, helium and dust. It is a l o n g space of seeming emptiness. You......

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Categories: stragglers, passion, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween Brew
... She said some words and blackbirds cawed As she stirred her cauldron to a goblin's applaud Her nose was crooked, her skin was green As her cackles echoed on Halloween The Halloween night......

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Categories: stragglers, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



What's the Buzz
...Is there anybody out there I can only see my face in the forefront preflection Of the passed, away on vacation until all comes cross Is she really on the page or on the screen an AI model Sto......

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Categories: stragglers, addiction, beautiful, change, creation,
Form: Free verse
Poetry In Time of Pandemic
...FIRST - ACT I stragglers, mad of pandemic... introverts, suffocated and masked... ......

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Categories: stragglers, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Street Called Dont Forget
...Shall I forget "Don't Forget Things Street", Where stealing increases body heat And items get lost from 7.00pm: Wealth outside owners forget to claim? "Don't forget" might stop recording theft,......

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Categories: stragglers, character, corruption, cry, evil,
Form: Rhyme



January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening
...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter for mass communication mediums stop the presses when I, a regular schlemiel take shampoo to......

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Categories: stragglers, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse
Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening
...Earlier today April 4th, 2022, which supersedes bald faced headlines pointing finger and Putin blame for Bucha killings squarely on head & shoulders of Russian autocrat, née yours truly lathe......

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Categories: stragglers, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warm Embrace
... stragglers in the group assist as reflex response lest dreams turn to dust 10-February-2022......

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Categories: stragglers, love,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member In the Company of My Muse
...On a walk companioned by my Muse along the sylvan meadows We wandered away to delightful realms in unclouded ambience Don’t know how long I rambled warming my fancies in sunset fires M......

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Categories: stragglers, beauty, dark, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Far Into the Night
...Darkness coiled in the depths of the night. Where shadows try to hide from your view. The moon is a mirror reaching for the light. Rattling on the doors grappling with the dew. Cigarette rims o......

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Categories: stragglers, dark, death, drink, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
...ankets, making slow, exquisite love, then lay exhausted like spoons in a drawer, pretending we were an old married couple looking back on a lifetime together, even naming our "pretend" children, and recalling our imagined travels and holidays ... If any "stragglers" DID happen to come around the point before the sun set, we pretended to be appalled, and commented on how we'd most certainly have to 'build our fences higher', and hire more security ......

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Categories: stragglers, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Stragglers Gate
...The distant sound of hoopbeats stirs the air those clouds sweet dusty dreams of yesteryear float lazily across his fluttering eyes crease wrinkled face to smile and eyes to tear. They rode, thi......

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Categories: stragglers, age, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fading Dreams
...The day is dying The half-moon is faltering In its nocturnal crawl Across the gloomy sky As the sleepy village goes to bed Under the inky dark African sky Stragglers are home-bound with trepi......

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Categories: stragglers, allusion, anger, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Occasional Puffs of Wind
...Green patches of lawn surrounded by flurries of leaves demarcation lines peace zones Occasional puffs of wind light, easy, unhurried scatter a few stragglers -- swept along a couple or thre......

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Categories: stragglers, autumn, wind,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Lighting the Path
...there it stood tall majestic solemn facing outward piercing the night scrutinizing the horizon looking out for stragglers lost desperate souls drifting at sea to guide them home ......

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Categories: stragglers, night, trust,
Form: Free verse

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