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Thumbprints Poems - Poems about Thumbprints


Premium Member Character Witness
... I wouldn't bother alchemizing language into golden press releases of your own making. It never works long anyway, grapevines get better reception. A dog knows who flinches. Moss grows w......

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Categories: thumbprints, growth, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cookies
... Cold milk and a couple Chewy Macaroons or Chocolate Chip. Maybe Cherry Thumbprints and then Crispy Florentines, or Caramel Biscotti? Crikey! I'll take them all! ......

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Categories: thumbprints, food,
Form: Pleiades



Worms
...A photograph of us tucked into an old paperback. We took the book to Rome long ago. I left it on a bus. Most likely it has been destroyed, by riffling thumbprints. Paper rots, the bus ......

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Categories: thumbprints, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gallery
... Oil stains on canvas, thumbprints on the frame, the price dangling from the bottom on a string and paper tag. Sculpture in the corner, penguin eggs in clay, all piled in a ......

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Categories: thumbprints, art, history, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Poppies
...I am small among fields of red flowers. They look toward me and watch as time presses its skeletal fingers into my limbs. Yes, this is my body now: a startling mosaic of death-colored discolora......

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Categories: thumbprints, anxiety, autumn, body, conflict,
Form: Blank verse



Clarity In a Treasure Box
...NOTES letters birthday cards bits of who he was my eyes flood as I watch mom guide his hands for thumbprints "my dad-once a man of letters" Written on 06/28/2016......

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Categories: thumbprints, age, memory,
Form: Verse
My Final Journey
...In despair, I contemplate ending my miserable disease-ridden life! My body is damaged beyond repair And so intense is the anguish that I can barely bear. I'm a worthless mess helpless , a broken ......

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Categories: thumbprints, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hail To the Queen
...My goodness, I’ve been handled by the best of people And the worst of people, the purity of my crisp white borders has been eroded by the sweat of wily men. The hem of my petticoats marking ......

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Categories: thumbprints, adventure, allegory, imagination, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fingerprint Failure
...Applying for teacher certification I caused one technician much consternation My fingerprints had simply not registered Again and again the test he administered “Guess you could have had a ca......

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Categories: thumbprints, funny, on work and
Form: Couplet

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