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Thumbtack
Thumbtack Poems - Poems about Thumbtack
The Butterfly Catcher
..."THE BUTTERFLY CATCHER." Chicano face. California. closer to death. he just pulled up to a house where the car he's about to tow sits. he tows a lot of cars, talks to people every day. h......
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Chicano Eddie
Categories:
thumbtack,
beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Argh Infamous Pinwheel On Macbook Pro 2009
...Argh... infamous pinwheel on macbook pro 2009 alas and alack myopic staring eyes bulge out their sockets, cuz yours truly taken aback I espied sight more frightful, than rookie dazed chess pl......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
thumbtack,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Over and Back
...Here I am a pin-cushioned thumbtack stuck in my ways like a stick in the mud or a telephone pole obstructing the gorgeous view of a T-Mobile tower flapping my wires & watching t......
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Phillip Garcia
Categories:
thumbtack,
racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Man With the Crooked Smile and Big Hands
...A long long time ago Before digital took over the planet. My grandfather was n airman in WW2. He never dropped a single bomb or even fired a weapon in that war.. He was a bit of a pacifist live......
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Jude Kyrie
Categories:
thumbtack,
england, grandparents, history, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Knapsack Full of Thumbtacks
...if i had a thumbtack for every promise i made you, i would prick my own finger in the name of truth for i never told it the donkey would run for the hills and float on air while slow......
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Marty King
Categories:
thumbtack,
blue,
Form:
Rhyme
The Modern Day Sojourner Truth
...THE MODERN DAY SOJOURNER TRUTH Tired from the lack of work --------Trivial Lazy, I am not.-------------------Search Thinking about Non-Profit---------Self-Employment Freelance Writing, Tutor......
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Verlena S. Walker
Categories:
thumbtack,
africa, black african american,
Form:
Acrostic
Thumbtack
...Fettered to stationary slave drivers, I was a young bull prodded by the stinging, rusted tips of your cheekbones. I'm not worried. Tomorrow I will escape. I have found my avenue, sh......
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Samuel Durant
Categories:
thumbtack,
beauty, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Fade To Black
...Look at me. What do you notice? Skin. Bone. A heart. I am real…but no one sees me. Though I stand full and dark against the wall I feel as though I blend in. I fade…into the wall. But I watched you ......
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Dchante Mckenzie
Categories:
thumbtack,
lonely, me, me, smile,
Form:
Free verse