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Under His Thumb Poems - Poems about Under His Thumb

Under His Thumb Poems - Examples of all types of poems about under his thumb to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for under his thumb.
The Greatest Show on Earth
...The bees have begun tuning their violins, raking their wings along the sleep-filled strings as I sit in the parking lot peeling stickers off of half-priced books. The roses are unfurling their......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, love,
Form: Free verse

Strawberries
...A big, glass bowl of oranges with eight pleated butterflies— perfectly symmetrical etched along the side. The sunlight, with all the eagerness, all the youth of morning pouring through......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, fruit, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Brothers Grimm
... Axioms, theorems, rules of thumb hypotheses, conundrums Pursuers of knowledge, those Brothers Grimm ~ Hansel and Gretel’s trail of crumbs ......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, fantasy, humor, science,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member HEART LANGUAGE SPEAKS-
...speakingWhat language does the heart speak not a thumb thumb, thumb thumb thumb, thumb what language does the heart speak whispers vibrates electronic vibrations love unti......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Revealing the rivals of Revolution
... Capitalist's fail with Chinese thumb on the scale! Digits of the world ~ UNITE! _____________________ Notes: The irony of the Communist/Capitalist co......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, international,
Form: Haiku

Guitarists' Language
...I tell you my secrets through the hums Of buzzing, stringed bees The rumblings of my thumb I pretend to play it all with ease My memories seem to wane But my fingers know their place A screec......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
the last viking
...The Last Viking There had been a storm, that uprooted  an old oak that exposed a gave the grave of the last Viking, a rusty  sword beside him its grip was made  fallen stars, he had been a chief......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, adventure, deep,
Form: Blank verse
On the Rug
...On the Rug with Death, two beers in hand (though no one here drinks) we laugh, his lifespan a joke still fizzed. My breath ignites wars, lulls drivers to sleep and builds bridges for his gu......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, age, bereavement, confusion, desire,
Form: Free verse
falling again
...When I met you I was numb But you came along and gave me a thumb I reached out to grab it but you held out your hand Then I waited for you to leave but you said you will wait till I land I......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, feelings, moving on, romance,
Form: Couplet
Her Adamant Face
...Adamant Face My mother used to say with an adamant face, "There is a place for everything and for everything a place!” My goodness, this house is a total disgrace" So every Tuesday at quarter pa......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, childhood, family, fun, my
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cloudy Bookshelf
...When that storm arrived, the entire congregation in genuflection knelt before Her poetic prayers, they saw themselves shining, eventually, in Her reflection scandalously quiet like per......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, i am, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Controllers without control
...The turn of a thumb And the flash of a screen Another year passes by With the hum of a machine Numbers and titles And words I don't mean It's hard to ask why And it's even harder to see ......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forced to wear a Thumbless Mitten
...I am more right-brained than anyone I have met. Being left-handed goes along with this and my dyslexia. An old-maid old-school old-faced teacher decided to fix me. I was forced to wear a thumb-les......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, parents, teacher,
Form: Narrative
FireFlower
... In the half-light's gentle hue, I find solace in the sighs of you, as winking stars gossip of length of purpose, and width of possibilities that challenge us- as one of love's melodies......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Upper Crust
...Where learned men converse On college grounds traverse Those lads debonair and debutantes fair With diamonds in their purse By limousine conveyed Their education's paid A most common tale of ......Read the rest...
Categories: under his thumb, america,
Form: Rhyme

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