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Tonnage Poems - Poems about Tonnage

Premium Member The chains that bind me
... the years of clutter sum total feel much like a noose around my neck the memories both good and bad exhausting in their tonnage trinkets on shelves reminders in drawers paramount to the anc......

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Categories: tonnage, angst, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gotta Go
...Books to the library photos to family. Paint cans and lumber from renovations years ago. Most of the furniture including the piano. Fastest way to do this is rent a dumpster. On the interne......

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Categories: tonnage, bible, books, computer, family,
Form: Free verse



altruist
...The world doesn’t tend to give you what you want Give me a locked box, the indescribable taunt What if she was feeling generous? In a moment of empathy, some severance My fingers de......

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Categories: tonnage, 12th grade, anxiety, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Battle for the Atlantic I
...When anarchy consumes a barren soul, the hatred overwhelms the beating heart. It sickens minds and steals the body whole then rips the cloth of empathy apart. Existence lies between what evil c......

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Categories: tonnage, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Battle for the Atlantic II
...With lone intent, all freedom it will wrest if obstinance you let these wolves deny. As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest your struggles for survival magnify. Each flailing ship that ferries......

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Categories: tonnage, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Lonely As a Cloud In April
...LONELY AS A CLOUD IN APRIL I knew Great Aunt Lucy’s April outing to celebrate My failed exams would be a series of disasters, A slow motion flying April-fool joke, with my problems as b......

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Categories: tonnage, april, grandparents, humorous, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coming Home
...COMING HOME She was an airport on the flats by the river, her signage, lights and markings outlining corridors that couldn’t be seen in the sunlight of day A black silhouette from a full harv......

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Categories: tonnage, love,
Form: Free verse
Plowman
...PLOWMAN (for Bill Troy, and Messer’s generous free Plowman Day.) Not soon enough comes the thrill of snow! for plowmen who beckon the blizzard’s fall anxious to use his craft of geometric......

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Categories: tonnage, appreciation, inspiration, life, snow,
Form: Free verse
Strike While the Iron Is Hot
...Cuz while ya steel got moxie, don't nix chance if only a dot before death finds flesh rotting alot. A self-actualized fringe benefit as I racked up orbitz round sun - wi......

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Categories: tonnage, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Evolution of a Smile
...Tea pot Patty slurps her ginger tea Whiskey with opioids mixed within it A cup of pleasure there for company Poor bar stool could break in two With Patty and her tonnage on it A lit cigar dangle......

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Categories: tonnage, abuse, character, conflict, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sugar-Bad Intention
...1. A heart in need of a permanent home but not this vagabond in a split shift who always flunks honesty. Promises in tonnage but so eolian forward motion in a reverse gear yet I am so blind to ......

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Categories: tonnage, boy, judgement, longing, lust,
Form: Lyric
Indigenous Feel of Peaceful Love
...Indigenous feel of peaceful love Interferencing touch of skin There has been no where better I have been So empowered , clean , free Often like Im at ease , drinking a tea , With stream ......

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Categories: tonnage, art, feelings, for him,
Form: Free verse
Fumbling In Half Steps
...In the avenues of thought you stirred up ripples And waves, and raised all the dust that had settled On everything that sat within the circumference Of a space between two meanings A tale of tw......

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Categories: tonnage, allusion, growing up, introspection,
Form: Lyric
Iron Balloons Concrete Skies - Part 1
...Iron Balloons Concrete Skies (PART 1) Florescent plants fill up the planet in green light The gigantic world found us before we found it Colliding, taking our ship by tonnage ......

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Categories: tonnage, adventure, visionary,
Form: Epic
Numb8rs
...Numbers make the world, no smiles or batted eyes here numbers make the world, no sticky-sweet fingers or waving palms numbers rule without qualms Gross domestic products and tonnage of staples on......

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Categories: tonnage, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative

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