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Threw Up My Hands Poems - Poems about Threw Up My Hands

Premium Member we are individuals are we not
...none of heard the same words for we are individuals are we not? it is not our hearing that did not hear it is the interpretive additives we add for we are humans living our own life experiencin......

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Categories: threw up my hands, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winnies First Car Ever
...Winnie learned all about fixing motors from her daddy. She had tuned up six Fords, two Chevys and a Caddy. Daddy got her a jalopy of her own when she was sixteen. She took it all apart, so it woul......

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Categories: threw up my hands, car,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Not At All What a Haiku Ought To Be
...Passing up stinging sun and flies. The trouble is, nature’s outside. Flowers I find in frames. I recline in conditioned air. Not at all what haiku ought to be, where the outdoors is dreamy; ......

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Categories: threw up my hands, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Hand Reached Down
...??Isaiah? ?59:1?-?2? ?NIV?? [1] Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. [2] But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his......

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Categories: threw up my hands, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Rider Leaves Empty Handed
...How many owls can I hold? I wondered as they appeared. They were perched on each limb as the night rider neared. I cannot handle this volume, the night rider said in a mean way. But we promised th......

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Categories: threw up my hands, animal, tree,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Christmas Elves Are Making Cookies
...Christmas Elves cut out the cookies all over the place. They had them in each room, and they ran out of space. In the bathroom? Someone asked, with a bit of a twitch. It was the persnickety annoyi......

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Categories: threw up my hands, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member And Broken Back Broken Neck
...Angels and guides tried their best to console Icarus Why did I not listen to my father? He lamented. Determined to hang onto his sorrow and sadness It is time to stop belittling yourself, his head......

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Categories: threw up my hands, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Massacre At Williams Henry, Part Iv
......He struck with the gunstock, smashed the man’s teeth, then dropped the weapon and ran hurriedly, Indians saw him, three of them gave chase, he dashed for the woods in a deadly race. Around h......

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Categories: threw up my hands, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
The Dinosaur Ai, Part Ii
......And these A.I.s could reproduce themselves, solving all the problems of production, but they had been made weak, sort, an squishy, so the dinos needn’t fear rebellion. For thousands of years......

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Categories: threw up my hands, animal, computer, dark, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hot Heat
...Oh Boy! Oh WoW! It's sure hot out there! It near sears the lungs, To just breathe the air. Can't walk the dog, 'Cause the sun's baked the streets. Can't go for a ride, 'Cause the sun's baked......

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Categories: threw up my hands, summer, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Hollywood Zombie Part 01
...Jason had this penthouse apartment that was centrally located in Beverly Hills. He was incredibly clean, but in an overwhelming kind of way. The carpet and stuff were spotless, the cabinets were p......

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Categories: threw up my hands, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pepperman Uncovers the Truth
...I OPENED A DOOR AND SAW THE UNSEEN. ALLOW ME TO TRY. TO EXPLAIN WHAT I MEAN. UNSEEN ENERGY IS NOT SEEN BUT FELT. PHYSICALLY MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DEALT. I FIND MYSELF IN A WORLD O......

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Categories: threw up my hands, conflict, corruption, culture, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Writers and Actors
...Pretending the roman’a clef is fake We portrayed bits of truth in every take Director and author got into spiff Author threw up his hands and said “what if”? Protagonist was not camouflaged wel......

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Categories: threw up my hands, 10th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Universe, Narrowed Down To New York
...He was a bit overawed his topic, too broad A speech on 'The Universe' ought not to be terse So he narrowed it down to his beloved hometown He focused on New York -- Jews and Musl......

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Categories: threw up my hands, city, food, humorous, universe,
Form: Light Verse
Settling Old Grudges, Part Iii
......They sent a copy of an old tin-type, a picture of Milton and his bride, one look at it and I knew the whole truth, Small Doe in the fighting had not died. A DNA test confirmed what I thought......

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Categories: threw up my hands, community, conflict, family, father
Form: Narrative

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