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Trimmings Poems - Poems about Trimmings

Premium MemberCome, Graceful Brittlebush

...Come, graceful brittlebush
   And creamy globe mallow blooms.
The winds of spring call you
   Again from the sandy tombs.

Come, you dashing lupine
   And join the wingnuts on the hills.
Go an...
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Categories: trimmings, flower, spring, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPurple Dreams in Other Realms

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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see 
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,     
she shone like the midnight sun; 
I must confess...
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Categories: trimmings, adventure, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Other



Premium MemberRoast Beef Dinner

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Roast beef with all the trimmings
Roasted potatoes
Carrots, broccoli and peas
Lashings of gravy
Cauliflower cheese
Glass of wine.
Bliss!...
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Categories: trimmings, food,
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium MemberThere is Always Room for Five More

...I am making a list, but do not check it twice
All of you are invited, whether naughty or nice
First, we will have roast beef, stewed in barbeque sauce.
Because I am the cook, thus, my appetite is ...
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Categories: trimmings, christmas, food,
Form: Rhyme

Overmantle

...Bacchus confronts us in a shady place, A tangled grove, and he, astride a cask. Gross limbs and belly, small besotted face, And lips pursed to the uptilted flask. A buxom dryad, white against his...
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Categories: trimmings, culture, dream, drug, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Beauty of December

...Is the weather calm and cool	
When good friends remember,
About vinyl from the spool
Joys of Santas’s goodies
When we were small back then,
Mother and her cookies
Six men wiser than a pen.
No ...
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Categories: trimmings, appreciation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Sarah’s Origin

...My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance, 
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.

A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving ...
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Categories: trimmings, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberBlonde

...I hate that Nellie Olson
—Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie

I’ll fix her. You’ll see.
—Nellie Olson, Little House on the Prairie
(regarding Laura)

Season 6, Episode 2: The two get m...
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Categories: trimmings, angst, jealousy,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberInterview With The Color of Blue

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Perhaps not everyone would agree, but after interviewing
The Color of Blue, I discovered a thing or two. For starters,
Mr. Blue owns and proudly wears a light blue shirt, but the
closest thing...
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Categories: trimmings, blue,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberNaked Apprehension

...I stand and stare at the empty branches,
stripped now of all the regalia of Christmas,
naked and sadly alone in my gaze
like the gray day beyond every window.
All the celebrations have been swept...
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Categories: trimmings, new year,
Form: Free verse

Unfamiliar Christmas

...Beauty of December
Cause weather is calm and cool
When good friends remember,
About vinyl from the spool.
Joys of Santas’s goodies
When we were small back then,
Mother and her cookies
Six men ...
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Categories: trimmings, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChristmas with family

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Gum trees standing tall amid the scorching sun.
Home for Christmas day, each and every one.

Old Sam from the house next door,
Accepted our invite to share lunch once more.

Each year on Chri...
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Categories: trimmings, christmas,
Form: Couplet

The Teenage Body After Suicide

...The human being
(also referred throughout history
as 'long pig' and 'hairless goat'
in the case of younger specimens)
Observing the anatomy and skeleton,
one can see that the human animal
after...
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Categories: trimmings, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Day After Christmas

...The Day After Christmas

It’s the day after Christmas and all round the gaff
Lay the wrappings from presents, both splendid and naff.
Bottles upended and glasses o...
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Categories: trimmings, celebration, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Christmas Surprise

...Visiting right before Christmas Eve was her favorite Grandma Kay.
Her granddaughter did not notice any presents, but that was okay.
Just being with her grams was enough to delight Little Bitty Moll...
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Categories: trimmings, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

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