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Tousled Poems - Poems about Tousled

Premium Member Pride in Their Hair
... Be dark or fair, folk have pride in their hair Although often hair leads one to despair Finding it's tousled and tied up in knots After sleeping upon one's precious locks. Or whe......

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Categories: tousled, blessing, hair,
Form: Other
Premium Member Mad Dog
...It was grandma’s last winter. I watched her hurry outside to split enough wood so her old kitchen stove would burn through the new storm she felt gathering along the horizon, its first eiderd......

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Categories: tousled, animal, childhood, endurance, farm,
Form: Free verse



The Other Woman
...The other woman lives inside of you; I can see her silhouette in your eyes. Her tendons twist through yours, interwoven, down through your fingertips, I see her there. The other woman lives ins......

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Categories: tousled, desire, feelings, metaphor, sad
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Poem For Your Child
... The sky is blue, the blossoms pink, A world of colors made to think Of girls with bows and boys with toys— Of butterflies and croaking frogs. A little girl in lace and light Will chase the w......

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Categories: tousled, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Teasing or cheering
...My heart cried Please loved him no more. It hurt more and more than before. My brain questioned Why did you keep on thinking of him for? You should practise "Out of sight, out of mind" My eyes......

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Categories: tousled, cheer up, for him,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I feel my skin opening, like an oyster revealing its fragile pearl
...I feel my skin opening, like an oyster revealing its fragile pearl, The sweet cocoon of sixteen years has cracked, releasing the sour butterflies of seventeen, "Sour" seems the right word, the natu......

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Categories: tousled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Euphoric Epithet
... Disarrayed sands dislodged from timeless domain, dropped by chaotic instants, settle ceaseless, bemused on stratified shelf of languid life, disorgani......

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Categories: tousled, analogy, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love Animals
..."Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened" by Anatole France Animals: all the various kinds every shape or color I'd choose I'd love them all, not one left behind......

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Categories: tousled, animal, appreciation, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
Jessamyn's Song
...Jessamyn's Song (circa age 14-16) by Michael R. Burch 16 There are meadows heathered with thoughts of you, where the honeysuckle winds in fragrant, tangled vines down to the water's edge. ......

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Categories: tousled, earth, life, song, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Glimpse of Nirvana
...A wisp of wind tousled curls Cloaks the eyes of Madonna Watch as her beauty unfurls A brief glimpse of Nirvana......

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Categories: tousled, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fallen Leaves
... Humans are quite a deciduous lot. It's our nature, but not Mother's motif. We fall from grace without faith and belief when fleshly flaws make us stumble, besot. Tousled emotions are tie......

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Categories: tousled, conflict, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member I couldn't talk about it, so I wrote a poem
...No Rush Hair brush through my hair, no rush. The wrinkles will not slow, but time slows on the satiny pillow, in throes. The bed softly creaks as our eyes speak. They do not stare as th......

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Categories: tousled, age, marriage, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music Of Memory
... Disarrayed sands dropped by chaotic time settle ceaseless bemused on stratified shelf of languid life disorganized, in moments moving ......

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Categories: tousled, analogy, depression, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Brenda Sleeps
... [verse] My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long. Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong. For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger. A strange logic, but to reality they......

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Categories: tousled, crazy, family, mental health,
Form: Lyric
From Grief to Glory
...They were long and tousled, when the heart felt the first jolt of despair. With each passing moment, the strands reaching further, weathering tsunamis, thunder, sighs, wailing; Life. Ev......

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Categories: tousled, absence, appreciation, care, depression,
Form: Narrative

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