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Thumbprints Poems - Poems about Thumbprints

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...

Categories: thumbprints, growth, irony,
Form: Free verse

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!
...

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 ...

Categories: thumbprints, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Categories: thumbprints, suicide,
Form: Free verse

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 ...

Categories: thumbprints, adventure, allegory, imagination, life
Form: Free verse

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...

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