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The Skinny Poems - Poems about The Skinny

Premium Member The Turkey A L'Orange Is Ready
...I'm neither talking about the turkey Who’s running for President Nor the one which is a country Now embroiled And roiled in turmoil I am talking about the huge pheasant That we all like to fest......

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Categories: the skinny, america, beautiful, dance, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 42 THE PLANNED AND UNPLANNED ON OUR WAY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
... On this road trip we make tentative plans as to the memories we’d like collected but we often find the best memories are totally unexpected. Take today for instance.. We planned to visit The O......

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Categories: the skinny, travel,
Form: Rhyme



The Scoop
...Waiting for ice cream And looking around, All versions of people Are there to be found: The old and the toddlers, The skinny and fat, The bald and the bearded, The full-bodied tat; The ne......

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Categories: the skinny, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skinny Ribs of a Pear
...I know I should not care About the skinny ribs of a pear But when you are eating one And your tooth gets hurt, it is no fun. I thought they did not have bones I said. Who told you that? Asked ......

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Categories: the skinny, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Waffle House
... The door rings, I look up, someone with someone else, back to my eggs and hash browns. The door rings Spatulas knell the griddle. The skinny cook yells in Kentucky Yiddish. Flapjacks slap in......

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Categories: the skinny, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Christmas Skinny
...I wrote to Prof Arab And I asked Dr Jew I spoke with Mrs Christian And typed to ChatGPT too One of them said it was spiritual The other, it was not real Another said academic fiction The la......

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Categories: the skinny, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets X
...Poems for Poets X Poems about Poets X Sinking by Michael R. Burch for Virginia Woolf Weigh me down with stones ... fill all the pockets of my gown ... I’m going down, ......

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Categories: the skinny, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heres the Skinny
...*The very first, I ever wrote about myself using my birth name and title.......

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Categories: the skinny, beautiful, butterfly, happiness, health,
Form: Rhyme
The White Ribbon in the Wind
...To Atbin. Another flick, a spark, Once more awakened the past Illustrating memories Are alive and always last. I recall your visage with Its veins, its charm, and grace Some invisible g......

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Categories: the skinny, friend, friendship, grief, i
Form: Rhyme
Jack and Jenny
...There is a story Told of old Of Jack and Jenny Wild and bold. Jack was first To play the fool. He ran off and made a mule. When jealous Jenny Heard the skinny She ran off And made a hinny.......

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Categories: the skinny, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Randomly Yours
...strewn thoughts The skinny dog snoozes on the graveyard's lawn at ease with the stillness of the night The fruit of the carob tree looks like a cotton pickers hand on an autumnal beach......

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Categories: the skinny, age, allusion, beach, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Velvet Touched Feathered Quills of Mysterious Books
... "The Velvet Touched Feathered Quills of Mysterious Books" Escape arrives easily when everything’s ugly deep diving into the swelling pursed lips of smooth purring magi ......

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Categories: the skinny, muse, sensual, word play,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Rising Son
... Proverbs 8:17 (KJV) - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Before the sun crosses the mountains, Slightly misty just beyond the seas – There i......

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Categories: the skinny, appreciation, courage, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hating the Skinny Gals
...Those three must not eat at all, we corpulent cats said. It was class reunion time, and our backsides were spread. They are still stuck up observed my friend Toddie Tedd. I bet they don’t eat suga......

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Categories: the skinny, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Fish
...Dead fish on the dead fish counter; surprised bulging aqueous eyes stare, none of them belly-up but spread on their sides in a pageant of slippery colors. Silver, red, rainbow streaked and all ......

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Categories: the skinny, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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