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Stringing Poems - Poems about Stringing

Premium MemberSugar Cookie

...Sitting here again. Eyes closed.
You? You’re here, never far.

Table for two, linen dressed in floral patterns bringing out your eyes.
Coffee for me. Tea and cookie for you. 

Holding your hand...
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Categories: stringing, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberREWIND

...The Truth
The way I feel
For years our love was a thought
No true nor false
Lies the whole time
Love wasn’t there
You cheated everywhere
We had two different storms
Your rage was Thunder
My ...
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Categories: stringing, betrayal, care, change, character,
Form: Free verse



Abstain's Scion

...As I wander across the arid dunes
Singing along, stringing along the ghastly glacial tunes
Sinking in the sands of debility
Saddled on a ride filled with sanguinity
Pondering, contemplating, desp...
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Categories: stringing, anxiety, identity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRubicon Crossing

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                                           Rubicon Crossing

                           Behold a young man in his late twenties
                           Standing silently near the swampy sho...
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Categories: stringing, anxiety, break up, first
Form: Narrative

Lao Tzu: English Translations I

...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I

An unbending tree
breaks easily.
—Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Nothing is weaker or gentler than water,
yet nothing can prevai...
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Categories: stringing, fish, heaven, men, sea,
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: stringing, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCORRUPT POLITICAL MONEY-STRINGING

...Unelected billionaire,
Puppeteering the POTUS...
Money-stringing corruption:
A democratic country,
Lunching its democracy:-...
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Categories: stringing, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberImplosion

...Implosion of democracy 
Explosion by hypocrisy 
Not what God meant to be
Twisted by man’s hands of deceit 

Whitewashing history
Distorting views
Blatant blasphemy 
Stringing together fools
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Categories: stringing, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSquirting Sonnets

...Deep bass breaths blue soothing strong
Play me like Picasso piano all night long
Nibbles at my ear are a peach love song
So dear my heart cheers stringing me along

My knees melt like Swiss chee...
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Categories: stringing, appreciation, color, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Invoke Change, Shake It's Hand

...Close your dream filled eyes
Quiet your anxious, loud mind
Run wild from the intrusive taunts
Fixating, gossiping over you in silent,
Yet understood tongue.

Let the lies of yourself fall throu...
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Categories: stringing, deep, inspiration, introspection, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems

...“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch

Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends ...
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Categories: stringing, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

Follows Me Around

...Written By:  D.  Collins 11/27/24/b>


From here until eternity, they will follow me around.
They won't let me go until I am in the ground.
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Categories: stringing, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Last Symphony

...Packed my 92-year-old dad
Into the old Lansing-made black Cadillac
To see the Detroit Symphony play at Wharton
We’re dressed up at the red light of Waverly and Saginaw

This vital busy corridor
...
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Categories: stringing, anger, anxiety, betrayal, dad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn My Eighth Year

...The sledding and the skating in ‘63;
the sugar cookies frosted green and red;
the stringing popcorn with my family
and going anxiously that Eve to bed.

The gift exchange when relatives would me...
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Categories: stringing, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTelestich

...Needling thoughts being bewitched
Heart of art revealed in telestich
Ending letters of a poem
Stringing me along 
Despite my rights my wrongs
Singing me like a song
Dreaming me into the unknown...
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Categories: stringing, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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