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Unhitched Poems - Poems about Unhitched

Premium Member Do Not Wish Upon This Star
... When you hitch your wagon to a new star you best make sure she’s up to par For if she fails, your wagon’s unhitched WNBA's 'bright college star' ~ already heading straigh......

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Categories: unhitched, basketball, star,
Form: Rhyme
Loveless Are the Romantics
...If I took my heart out of its cage you would think: "ah offal, just meat, fresh blood if I eat it quickly." . Crazily, you call 'need' love, you're crazed, heartless, a cannibal, a crippled dog......

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Categories: unhitched, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Now That We Are Here
...Life is entanglement plus time, A Gordian knot of opportunities, Each ravel a riddle to solve or a battle to be won. We grab and pull at the gnarls, Greedy fingers seeking solutions alone. Th......

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Categories: unhitched, appreciation, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
The Storm Gull
...The steersman dry-heaves into rolling scuppers, the skipper dozes fitfully in his sodden berth spew dribbling from a tossed piss pot. The deck is also heaving; fo......

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Categories: unhitched, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Praise of Barge Workers
...Wind sweeps down the side of the mountain Crosses tracks and flings itself across the river, First slapping against the sides of the tugboats Causing the deckhands to shiver and curse ......

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Categories: unhitched, boat, death, river, work,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wednesday Midst the Luck of the Irish
...Wednesday's the middle of the sandwich equidistant from weekends -- unhitched Plenty of room for all those toppings ketchup, mayo and rain showers -- she's sopping How unjust, other days' i......

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Categories: unhitched, day, jealousy,
Form: Couplet
Teanaway Valley
...An old Point Man phoned, “Do ya think you can do it?. Driving doggies and cows from the flanks of Mt. Stewart?" Fattened on grass for a year they had stayed. “Move a river of horns down to Yaki......

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Categories: unhitched, peace, river,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Wickedlandia
...Wickedlandia Where evil reigns, ‘n willful blindness is sovereign Callousness, insouciance, cruelty shall reign Decency, empathy, honor, integrity feigned Citizens merrily fawn, whose r......

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Categories: unhitched, power, social,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Covetous
...Is it a crime To pry apart rhyme Stitch lines, unhitched From native consequence To warily marry Unmetered time By forced remorse Unrehearsed In patchwork verse In my malaise My daydrea......

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Categories: unhitched, jealousy, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Playing Now: Butterflies and New Romantic Musical
...A most wonderful thing, natural observation Copulating on the wing, butterflies on mission Mostly pure white on this summer day –welcome cool - Like delicious Autumn, but breaking the rule Of lon......

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Categories: unhitched, autumn, butterfly, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Parent Child Reunion
...Fledgling child unclasps Turns and flees, Away unhitched. Blatant rebel, free Rejects parents as uncool, But as an adult, reunites.......

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Categories: unhitched, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burnt Bridge
...1. Betrayal builds up with great energy winning my man comes with a heavy bill of cost. The third, trying to make us two unhitched brings out thunderous evil from a Timpani coveting from a loved......

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Categories: unhitched, best friend, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Denouement Unhitched
...Magician bored with trick familiar Simple slip knot and pin worked a treat Letting him escape from tank on stage When dropped in with hands tied behind back. The slip knot and pin, hidden from ......

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Categories: unhitched, magic,
Form: Free verse
Descent Into Darkness, Diary of An Officer In the 101st Airborne
...Every man has a mission An objective To carry out the orders of the commanding officer What will be the plan after this war is over? Shall we begin anew? Can we place this ugly Godforsaken place......

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Categories: unhitched, absence, emotions, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Fae In My Shadow
...FAE IN MY SHADOW Still night air, heavy and wet. Damp my skin; I rise, I sit. Cloudy dreams lie in shadow. Whispers of laughter. Promises of a kiss. The sound of hummingbird wings. Th......

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Categories: unhitched, adventure, autumn, dance, magic,
Form: Free verse

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