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Turpentine Poems - Poems about Turpentine

Plagued by Memories
...There’s a small committee in my brain, chaired by Regret and Vice-Chair Shame. They meet on Tuesdays, drink Earl Grey, and critique my past like a play. There’s Memory #12, in a velvet vest, ......

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Categories: turpentine, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zephyr Oxidation
... Written, March 24, 2025 For Contest, Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand ****************** hands aegis sculpting lullabies cradling ......

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Categories: turpentine, analogy, courage,
Form: Other



Premium Member 2 Minutes to Midnight
...Inspired by the song of the same name by Iron Maiden In nineteen eight-four, a heavy metal band made a statement about a minute hand. The Doomsday Clock was ticking down, telling us we might n......

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Categories: turpentine, death, destiny, world,
Form: Rhyme
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: turpentine, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Let's respect our two homes
...Time to be respectable I live in two homes in my mind I’m both Frida and Diego Like me, they lived in Twin Houses The tortured me lives in the blue one The elephant in the red and white ......

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Categories: turpentine, art, divorce, home, house,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member PASTELISTA degas chardin
...PASTELISTA  degas chardin manner &     movement investigating light broader   freer soft fragility layered   superimposed turpentine   sealed......

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Categories: turpentine, art,
Form: Didactic
James' Feminine
.... amin amine (i'm losing it people...lol; it's pronounced amin) lin line(can one imagine, english lit teacherz, instructing their students to draw a 'lin', down the center uv their note pads) ......

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Categories: turpentine, analogy, sound, stress, word
Form: Prose Poetry
Betty
...Betty didn't came to her own wake said she had other things to do Didn't share the news with the mourners she hadn't heard of her own demise Wretched wet warm summers clouds of turpentine Go......

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Categories: turpentine, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Future Is Here
...The future is here AI is its name It too is concerned with the gender game A feminine name like Alexa or Cortana does not pull its weight in the state of Montana ......

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Categories: turpentine, humor, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Belly Fat
...Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings) low-caffeine * white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and boosts slimming (lunch time) Caffeine ......

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Categories: turpentine, beautiful, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Epicure
...He ate a caterpillar sandwich Just to prove he could do it He just gritted his teeth and Chewed his way right through it He washed it down with turpentine Which he preferred to any wine Ate a......

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Categories: turpentine, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Mouse Hairs By Moonlight
...Out-built, humped, and beached, breached by moonlight, nothing comes out of an old barn unfound. Engine oil, the fungal fur of time warped wood. Weather-eaten iron coated by rusted smears. mous......

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Categories: turpentine, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mouse Hairs By Moonlight
...Out-built, humped, and beached, breached by moonlight, nothing comes out of an old barn unfound. Engine oil, the fungal fur of time warped wood. Weather-eaten iron coated by rusted smears. mous......

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Categories: turpentine, poetry,
Form: Free verse
St Valentine Celebration
...Paint never would smile at Turpentine And I tell you The Serpentine Wouldn’t at The Truest Valentine “Hither I Come!” from Far- Off Turpentine In Paint’s eardrums, A Monstrous Frankenstein And-t......

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Categories: turpentine, appreciation, care, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Universe of Bull
...My vacuum cleaner’s broken, sits in the garage gathering dust Beside dad’s old green car, oxidising an orangey rust I tried washing it last week, and the water turned to wine Well the colour......

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Categories: turpentine, allegory, life, me, universe,
Form: Rhyme

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