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Tongued Poems - Poems about Tongued

Premium Member Creation Story, From the Tongue Outward
... In the beginning, there was salt. It hung in the air like unfinished scripture, gathered in the throat of the sea, waited for a mouth dumb enough to mistake thirst for an invitation. Then......

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Categories: tongued, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Four Kinds of Bats in Rhyme
...Fish consuming bats come out at night In Brazil struggling fish is a sight So scary are the long-tongued bats Pollen and nectar give them their fats Frog-eating bats reside in Panama They devo......

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Categories: tongued, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Twilight
...no - not yet light, linger breathe a little let day be undone and quietly unfold kiss me in hazy shadow entwining beneath amber fires for love is tender in silhouette with whispered hush o......

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Categories: tongued, sunset,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Innuendos Don’t Behave
...Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. In his tongue. Whose tongue? Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Goo......

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Categories: tongued, celebrity, dance, lust,
Form: Free verse
IRON MAIDEN
...Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri IRON MAIDEN Iron maiden was she fathered from loins of Zeus flow free ~ surrounded by swords steely three, icicle aura bounded hounded innocence thor......

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Categories: tongued, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree, things aren't the same as they used to be. When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail, I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale. Such an inj......

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Categories: tongued, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undergrowth With Two Figures
...(after the painting by Vincent Van Gogh) Does she even exist? Doubting her own reality, seeing herself vanishing in undulating undergrowth, fading and merging into summer-scorched scenery. ......

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Categories: tongued, abuse, dark,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Two Mothers in Me
...Good mother, bad mother, locked in a war, Two mirrors reflecting, in a turbulent stance. ......

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Categories: tongued, angst, conflict, fear, how
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations III
...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch Bed the bride with the beautiful feet, or bring her to me! —Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Ga......

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Categories: tongued, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse
Timing
...A listless wall-clock tocks. Pedestrians sleep-walk to their garages, strung out nightwalkers arrive home to unwind main springs. Neighborhood cats want in and dogs out. Pet-free I arise to pee......

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Categories: tongued, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Roots of September
...In raw dawn I emerge crow-thoughts pecking skull-bone black as plowed earth. Farm-stench floods – dung, hay and blood – primal musk of life and death intertwined. Yet in this first ......

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Categories: tongued, farm, life, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Pay Attention
...4/24/24 How weird it is All around the planet are pyramids Yet we don't understand it fully, this makes me curious The reason for their construction must've been serious It makes me a bit fu......

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Categories: tongued, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What the Cat Dragged in the song
...[Guitar solo introduction] [Chorus] Oh look at what the cat dragged in, and he looks like the dog worked him over too, and for some reason he thinks he smells like clover, was it whisky or win......

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Categories: tongued, drink, humor,
Form: Lyric
I move when my dog wants up on the sofa
... He learned so quickly how to not bring sticks and balls back He seems to think when he puts his head down there should be a bowl beneath it Strained swell into a wells Turning the nail Hamme......

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Categories: tongued, poems,
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3 Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?......

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Categories: tongued, angst, desire, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse

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