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Uncharacteristically Poems - Poems about Uncharacteristically

Sad To See

...Pretending to be different, pretending to even care
Pretending to be what you are not lies within your stare
Sad to see how unhealthy a life being lived this way
Sad to see how uncharacteristicall...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, dark, death, evil, life,
Form: Couplet

Uncharacteristically

...Uncharacteristically

I got up uncharacteristically at 6 and
Uncharacteristically heated up a bowl of chicken soup
And enjoyed the warm sunshine through the blinds

Uncharacteristically, I drov...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, change, day, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGetting Tomboy Ready For Prom

...Our tomboy caterpillar’s metamorphic tendencies
Preceded her in reputation and in wherewithal
Her human indoctrination was a metabolic oversight
Uncharacteristically uncalled for, and clearly fill...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberKindness and Tears

...Only a hero volunteers for war,
willing to battle and die for others.
And do things they'd typically abhor,
rallying into a band of brothers
defending their homes, sisters, and mothers.
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Categories: uncharacteristically, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Quintain (English)

Premium MemberPaining Yourself For Another

...I have a headache, my teeth hurt, and my stress level is high.
I have chills, and my hands are cold enough to ice a lemon pie.
My neck is stiff, and my enthusiasm is uncharacteristically low.
I ca...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Leotards Versus Jumpers But Just What One Per Cent Will Actually Climb a Tree

...One day an ancient barrel decided it had truly had enough as it tripped over a bale of hay on the staircase. ENOUGH he shouted ENOUGH. But the only thing to hear this cry was the walls and floors who...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form: I do not know?

Swollen Pride

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My big mouth
earned me a black eye
When I got into a foolish fight,
in the school cafeteria,
over a disputed last piece of pie
Came home and tried to hide
behind dark sunglasses
To my par...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, angst, introspection, school, social,
Form: Verse

Old Datuk and Things Golden

...A perfect example why to some people age is just a number...
You feel your age only if you choose to buckle under...
All those hype and negative comments once your age is 30 and over....

Of cour...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, anniversary, community,
Form: Free verse

How Interesting Is a Two Curved Toucan

...senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very eerily similar to a gaggle of ge...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, april, arabic, art, august,
Form: I do not know?

Calling Cards

...Sausages are meal items that should be avoided at all costs by very small rabbits. Tiny white fish with silver fins carry red flags that denote danger in a tide. So hop jump up a tree then. That shou...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, art, birth,
Form: I do not know?

Mayor Koch

...New York’s lost an icon
Who was in your face and brash.
He always spoke his mind and thus,
With many he did clash.

A three-term mayor with a bridge
That’s honored with his name,
His trademark “How’m...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, loss, people, political,
Form: Rhyme

Ad: How I Choose To See It

...Before dementia, Sister Mary
Was strong-willed, mean, and strict.
She hit my desk with a ruler 
When my cursive was nondescript.
She used to give me the evil eye
If I didn’t do my work.
She was a dri...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, childhood, hope, uplifting, sister,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUncharacteristically Impromptu

...I was so serene in thinking
when I visited today that tiny space
that lives in my mind
when words of tragedy and despair
become daunting just to hear
so I escaped to my special place
so lost in...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, faithwords,
Form: I do not know?

The Black Crow

...I first noticed the black crow sitting on the lower branch of the old oak tree/ In front of 
my house, ten yards out; it's eyes seemed to follow me/ No matter what I was doing, the 
bird knew/ Calc...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, deathmorning,
Form: Free verse

Poverty's Angels.

...wreckless.

no one is less a man than a cadaver, high on good guy philosophy. too much for me.
white wash.
there is a room w/ no walls. there is no room.

Pandora; show me that your box isn’t p...
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Categories: uncharacteristically, inspirational, political, social,
Form: Blank verse

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