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Straight Backed Poems - Poems about Straight Backed


Music from an Empty Room
... A straight-backed chair shadow-plays a dark cello, while emptiness falls as heavy as a rain cloud. An oak wood floor creaks as a spectral bow is moved by a shifting light. The room once ......

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Categories: straight backed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Bullies
...Soft heart shaped face, Piercing eyes speckled head, Running out of control, Pacing ahead. Straight backed chairs, Hard wooden desks, Permanently inked on my heart, Their looks have s......

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Categories: straight backed, 7th grade, bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member At a Party
...I spoke with two people at the party Saturday. A young police officer, short-haired, fit, chiseled face who had two young children. He felt constrained by the law, without discretion to question ......

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Categories: straight backed, brother, children, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Attend Petes Funeral
...Pete had an ordinary funeral, nothing ostentatious or showy. Two straight backed strangers appeared in his small Iowa church. They were dressed in Air Force uniforms. They hugged each other for a ......

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Categories: straight backed, funeral,
Form: Narrative
Music From An Empty Room
...Up in the above roof gardens pluck air out of thoughts. Changelings run between brick walls one is dead-eyed and evermore shall not see yet it grows itself upon a dendritic tree to hear what th......

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Categories: straight backed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Rekindle Liberty's Flame
...A leader looks forward He doesn't look back Makes tough decisions Rarely backtracks He's not always right And he's sometimes unwise Yet he admits his mistakes He deals not in lies ......

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Categories: straight backed, america, inspirational, integrity, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Searching For Venus
...He was weary of prostitutes. The young ones were vacuous, their bodies unleavened bread. The mature models scored by the violence of disappointment. Both the naive and the bitter were dull mold......

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Categories: straight backed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On a White Stool
...On A White Stool You know there is no turning around, no pausing in any way, because the path to the woods, where the sky demons make their homes, has been flooded by the blue rivers there, ......

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Categories: straight backed, life,
Form: Free verse
Revealing Venus
...He was jaded with prostitutes. The young ones were vacuous, their bodies unleavened bread. The mature models scored by the violence of disappointment. Both the naive and the world-weary were du......

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Categories: straight backed, poverty,
Form: Blank verse
Strong Woman
...She is cool, straight-backed, circumspect. She doesn’t ooze emotion. She orders green eggs and lamb, and lets the joke speak for itself, not offering a gratuitous laugh. Relentless in her pursuit of ......

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Categories: straight backed, beauty, youth,
Form: Verse
Secrets of Revenants and Taurusa School
...Wrapped in the aromatic blossoms of a modern-farmed orange orchard, a four-room shack in Visalia, California rises above the hard pan and overgrown rose bushes. The once palatial bell tow......

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Categories: straight backed, adventure, boy, childhood, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hall of Silent Women
...Hall of Silent Women in valhala in a far corner of this martial paradise is one small unobtrusive hall above the heavy iron door these words are faintly inscribed “ the war department re......

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Categories: straight backed, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like Easter Lilies
...The sisters passed in the garden on the way to chapel, their heads bowed, their voices hushed, faced concealed by wimples stiff as cones in the twilight. The evening bell tolled, ......

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Categories: straight backed, garden, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Poverties Face
...There are all kinds of poverty and no sin in being poor yet, beauty in its truest form always will endure. Disparity has its price to pay when greed becomes the lure. How we handle lucre, it ......

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Categories: straight backed, allegory, caregiving, introspection, life,
Form: Quatrain

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