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Using Up Poems - Poems about Using Up

Premium Member Contemplating a Slug
... Stopping to contemplate a slug I marveled at this taciturn bug Designed to live underground occasionally it is found making its way ‘long a crosswalk u......

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Categories: using up, home, insect, journey,
Form: Couplet
Writing
...I’m writing with pen. Scribbling and doodling. Writing a rough draft. Then an even rougher draft. Falling asleep and knocking coffee all over my pages. Using up my whole notebook. Running to th......

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Categories: using up, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I clean when I am Angry
...the only time I clean is when I am angry because anger begets anger and cleaning always puts me into a brown funk I have been known to turn a room upside down and inside out dusting, strippin......

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Categories: using up, anger, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bots
...scramble the bots there’s a new weirdo in town using up the sun, talking un-abbreviatedly odd some skin looking healthier than the rest of us, us, junkies of likes – us, beyonders of midnight I ......

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Categories: using up, computer, fun, humorous, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My First Poem
...All these years ago it began then I picked up my black pen wondering if I could write poetry so doubtful was I back then But then my grey cells responded bringing thoughts mindfully alive fro......

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Categories: using up, literature, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme



Growing
...Two girls far apart leading different but crazy similar lives Lots of progress and work - arousing with small talk of becoming wives But are those emotions genuinely what you wanna explore? The j......

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Categories: using up, girlfriend, women,
Form: Rhyme
Sugar Mixed Up With Cougar
...Everyone wants to save my life, Everyone to whom sugar is knife... But shame to all sellers of sugar, Who dread it more than jumping cougar! They tell me my case is different ; Fifty two years o......

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Categories: using up, christian, courage, death, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ruin
...A building ruin touches my heart Its days of worthiness are now gone. Its French doors are now falling apart crumbled bricks inhabit one-time-lawn Weeds climb trellis instead of lace vine Hone......

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Categories: using up, age, children, house, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Waste Your Energy
...Don't waste your energy, In trying to fit more hours in your day, As no dividend will ever come from thinking the house will ever pay, A dividend for those who use their energy in that way, And ......

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Categories: using up, age, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member It Gives Me the Jitters
...You would need giant shears To cut a rug, And why should anyone need to do it? In their 20s and 30s, they jitterbugged If you had the energy to pursue it The jitterbug was a lively dance That......

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Categories: using up, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Me Teach Yall Fockers a Lesson
...FIRST stop blocking your everyday lessons they are your strongest blessings SECOND stop trying to be a teacher all the time even Einstein needed lessons THIRD stop any outsiders from getting inside......

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Categories: using up, blessing, cool, courage, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Child In a Quiver
...Catholic education taught me all my Ps and Qs when nuns and priests coached a child's reluctant view, in a quandary and a quiver to kneel up straight and perfectly perpen......

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Categories: using up, analogy, christian, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decisions, Decisions
...Which pair of shorts to wear today What color T-shirt best romps around and plays Should I sleep in 'til eight, eight-thirty, or nine How about 9:30, Central Daylight Time... Hmm. It's ten......

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Categories: using up, life, sleep, summer, sunshine,
Form: Light Verse
Our Bowling Date
...Three of us went out to bowl For this is done by many, the young and the old We talked as we waited and stood in line For the leagues to finish using up their time We got our lane, now let the ......

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Categories: using up, friendship, fun, games,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Liz Unicorn and Her Horn
... Once upon a time, Liz Unicorn, was quite unhappy with her tiny horn, and one sad, lonely day began to bawl, cause horns of friends her age shot up so tall. Right then appeare......

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Categories: using up, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Couplet

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