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Toppled Poems - Poems about Toppled

Premium Member dummy spit
... dumpy trumpeter spat the dummy when his taco toppled off his pastiche wall......

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Categories: toppled, america, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Starling
...When I was small the starlings roosted one by one on grandma’s party line wire (like jittery black clothespins) to bandy their gossip back and forth until the wire hummed with their inanities.......

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Categories: toppled, bird, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wounds
...Doubt is like duct tape so rip it off, never mind paper cuts and red welts. You toppled off your bike as a kid, always stood up again and rode on. Never mind paper cuts and red welts, wound......

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Categories: toppled, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Seeding Clouds
... We did not speak of rain; only the wish that our love could be again. The air was bone-dry, with only the merest glimpse, of wispy cloud remnants, in the sky. But, our thoughts, hopes and......

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Categories: toppled, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Light Box
...Cold, warm, horrifying, inviting Grinding away at the last pink and grey pustules pooling at the bottom of my Skull Gods own light pushes and claws helplessly against thin nylon ......

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Categories: toppled, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 1066 at the Imagine Inn
..."Ballinger's pride will be the death of him," Was the last muttering of the old cyclops before The poison took over. Never trust unicorn bartenders. Young Gallimay, the town's token centaur, W......

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Categories: toppled, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Some Where - Apr 12
...Toppled by a bottle, collapsed upon her painful past, asleep—but well awake!—, unmoving, but for her mind stirred aquake, the girl is yawning before her black dawn. Alone, couched by a burning ......

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Categories: toppled, addiction, dark, death, drug,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Echoes of the Silent Shore
...Echoes of the silent shore into our past it transports Calling me to my memories long ago stored Safely put away for days like today when I need you and my eyes are red and sore Echoes of the ......

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Categories: toppled, absence, desire, longing, lost
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Empathy's Eruption
...We stand on foothills, gazing at the peak, A world divided, a chasm vast and bleak. Our mountains of indifference, a jagged, stony chain, While empathy's volcano simmers, but struggles to co......

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Categories: toppled, america, courage, dedication, desire,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Song
...The Love Song A song we both liked once grinds-on, a needle on a disc etching deep grooves into a mutual experience. The cat we once shared, died. Our dog chased the cat in its leg-twitchin......

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Categories: toppled, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad day at Stop And Shop
...Jack had just escaped the local slammer He’d struck the sheriff's car with a hammer. He tried to look normal, in an aisle in Stop and Shop But he wondered who might be an undercover cop. Sall......

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Categories: toppled, chocolate, confusion, hilarious, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Etched in Stone
... Etched in Stone In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones Bordered on both sides with verdant ......

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Categories: toppled, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Ink Blots
...In the foreground of a dream, you stood before me, confessing your singular misstep. Behind you, were two images. As only my subconscious mind could decipher, then conveyed to me. Only the words li......

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Categories: toppled, anger,
Form: Free verse
Finding Her Path
...She left home to find her star in the lane of life, But it wasn’t without strife, Her parents did not believe in her dreams, They couldn't see the sun in the path she had chosen. Her days at ho......

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Categories: toppled, death, family, father, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Bones
...In winter The forest becomes invisible This Is When the wood can be touched Such Tall And toppled tenderness Will not flinch Beyond Looking through The centuries exposed Forest fl......

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Categories: toppled, age, courage, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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