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Twangs Poems - Poems about Twangs

Premium MemberOn Crenshaw

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on crenshaw 
carousing in cavernous cafes 
slicing into earthen skin
the meat dancers bring it to a boil
they murder the rug
they scrounge for earth worms
the fish head girls bob like sea bir...
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Categories: twangs, america, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Animal Good Time Band

...When you live on a farm and hear cockadoodle-doo
What do those words mean to you?

They mean pretty soon you'll hear moo,
and you'll have lots of work to do.

After a while, the h...
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Categories: twangs, animal, music, onomatopoeia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFall Rhapsody

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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from an autumn tree."

                                         Quote by _ Emily Bronte

All the trees are changing their summer gowns,...
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Categories: twangs, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWide Awake

...Clattering coins 
forcefully flung 
inside a fragmented glass jar,

doleful howls full of misery, woe
nocturnal creatures arise,

rapid rotations, 
continual tornados

tedious echos ben...
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Categories: twangs, abuse, child abuse, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Villanelle Tra La La -

...A Villanelle Tra La La 
Tra la la-I couldn't stop thinking bout this song
Twas just so minuscule and kind
This I could never forget this verse twangs bings-bongs

That morn, hearing this new ...
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Categories: twangs, analogy, metaphor, song, word
Form: Villanelle



In the Hills of Seven Huts

...In the hills of seven huts,
Where war is either a place or surname,
And dreams are translated into numbers,
And a number became a gambler's sad song,
I found God breathing through the pine trees....
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Categories: twangs, adventure, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: ABC

360

...There are a select few people who are essential to my entire well-being
Embarrassed that I haven’t thanked you for the love you gave to me
I must tackle the troubles that double in size, strength a...
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Categories: twangs, appreciation, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTight Lines

...I cast a line on pond to fish.
My lure plops,
and triggers circles to radiate out
as rings of ripples emanating
from the surface deformed, disfigured
by weighted lure on the end of the line.

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Categories: twangs, fishing, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnshackle My Verse

...Wordplay Beats Ban Adverse

In 2184 the thought-police declared war
On embellishment, feeling and emotion in literature and articles in any form.
Succinct 'plain English' was the name of t...
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Categories: twangs, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Movin' On

...I guess that is just how the old ballads are                                                                                                                                          ...
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Categories: twangs, art, heart, loneliness, lost
Form: Quatrain

Words

...In the beginning there was logos

Said Heraclitus!

In the beginning there was word
Said the Bible!
Sticks and stones 
Or words said
The sadistic torturers of all times!
When words are scarc...
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Categories: twangs, adventure, beautiful, bible, life,
Form: Free verse

Las Vegas:Pigeon's Paradise

...Las Vegas, Pigeon’s Paradise!

At the Angel Park Golf and Country Club
The pigeons sported neck scarves
Of iridescent iris, white and blue
As they hoped with expectations
Around divots in the t...
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Categories: twangs, fun, funny, games, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Words

...In the beginning there was logos
Said Heraclitus!
In the beginning there was word
Said the Bible!
Sticks and stones 
Or words said
The sadistic torturers of all times!
When words are scarce, t...
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Categories: twangs, allusion, appreciation, beauty, word
Form: ABC

The Brawl

...Snapped down shirts, scuffed up boots
Puffing larger than life chests
Dime-store pokes, showing colors
Peacock struts and sailor jokes
Twangs from the jukebox
Begging for two-steps
Cheap draws ...
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Categories: twangs, conflict, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Four Walls

...These four walls mean freedom, 
From the rain, suffrage and the stains, 
Liberty from oppression and religion, 
To make other songs and trains. 

No austere twangs or cold voice, 
No dais glute...
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Categories: twangs, brother, character, childhood, children,
Form: Quatrain

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