Mother Wall Poems

The strangest one I have ever seen,
fits well between two sections of a wall.
Yes, it is a door I speak of -
but what does it...

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I just finished flipping the calendar to March
I keep a paper one hanging on my kitchen wall 
despite everything being digital 
I’m old school some...

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Before the living room wall came crashing down.
I sat in the living room as a child and frowned.
Reading in the dark and studying in the...

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I ask myself,                      ...

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Learning disabilities go hand in hand
With nightclub singers and a mariachi band
Creative to an unusual abnormally bright degree
Off the wall unique, Cher is one you...

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Nature is wondrous
It is all around
Everywhere we look
It's beauty abounds
Flowers are so pretty
I think the same of weeds
Weeds are flowers too
Both grown from seeds
Mother Nature...

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Not Elves, Exactly
by Michael R. Burch

Something there is that likes a wall,
that likes it spiked and likes it tall,

that likes its pikes’ sharp rows of...

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Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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by Dawne Zacharias

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The Human Wall

INTRANSIGENCE
the human wall 
of the stiff- necked
obdurate, mulish
where want prevails
and choice fails

you can’t pass through it
you can’t move it out the way
it serves...

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The alarm clock sounds beside the bed,
It slowly penetrates into daddy’s head.

He looks at the clock and jumps up with a jerk,
It was the snooze...

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Used to be a wall-flower when I was young
Look at me now, noted for much doo-doo I've flung
But still a gentle soul
A yummy casserole
Of brawn...

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Mirror mirror on the wall
I see my light brown eyes staring back at me

Mirror mirror on the wall
my petite size that never got any taller

Mirror...

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She was rough, gravelly, sharp, brash, unwelcoming, unfriendly.
The fence she had built around herself was unbreakable, stiff, metallic,
Wire screened with burlap.
Scratchy. Harsh. Stark. Unforgiving. 
Many...

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Believe it or not, I was a wall-flower when I was young
Look at me now, noted for much doo-doo I do flung
But I'm still a...

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