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Waste Basket Poems - Poems about Waste Basket

unwritten page

...Unwritten page
An unwritten page on a Word processor, I ought to leave it this way 
look and dream of what I could have written on the page
If I delete words I have written, the page will be blank...
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Categories: waste basket, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberBEN NOLA

...Lights dim, and a single spotlight illuminates the stage/Ben Nola has sumptin 2 say/
 a page/ a stage/ two worlds were born from the seed of thought/
 One, etched in ink, a monument meticulously wr...
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Categories: waste basket, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium MemberI am a poet

...I am a poet.  Not really sure when I accepted this fact but quite thrilled with finally having a title.  I write whenever and wherever about whatever.  I have written one children’s book about “The A...
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Categories: waste basket, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberThe Story of Writers Block

...The Tortured Poets Department has a writer's division that has to approve every poem before it goes out
And my mind is tired of being held hostage
A loose-leaf definition of writer's block was once...
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Categories: waste basket, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberPROJECT MANAGER - INTERVIEW

...Do you think Pharts are Phunny

Do you shake hands, hug or play bongos

If a fellow employee pukes in their cubicle
Do you…puke also
	…run away
	…gag until useless
	…get a waste basket in cas...
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Categories: waste basket, fun, humor, satire,
Form: List



Writers Block

...Writers block, 
Time for a walk around the block.
Time to take stock,
Time to sell stock,
Time to rethink the plot,
While cleaning up the garden plot,
Time to empty the waste basket,
And fill ...
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Categories: waste basket, 4th grade, age, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse

Becoming 1

...Becoming 1

I’ve seen stranger things 
Spoiled tongue 
Rosy words
Puzzle pieces 
Riddles and books to be published
And a wedding televised every place 
A beautiful pink dress unlike the rest
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Categories: waste basket, anger, anxiety, betrayal, butterfly,
Form: Narrative

Senryu Waste Basket

...my new haiku pad
                             page after page of
                             pre crumpled paper...
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Categories: waste basket, poetry, writing,
Form: Senryu

Wheel On a Stick Part 3

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The Cinematic Film Treatment as Poetic Element 
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Mechanical Intervention in the ...
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Categories: waste basket, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The Beginding

...(Door bell rings)

 — The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a lette...
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Categories: waste basket, adventure, allusion, analogy, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberSonrise

...There's a spot in my life that's 
been void filled and I cry with
a morbid intensity when I think of
him as I do now. He's healed
something baggage born so I can
leave it in a waste basket. I ca...
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Categories: waste basket, baby, birth, character, father,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFever and Chills

...Fever and Chills

History writes itself
invisible pens find surfaces unknown
private life
public life
fever and chills sleep together
heaving corrosive air
from colorless lungs
hearing but their own ...
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Categories: waste basket, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Another Saturday Night With Her Friends

...Where the floor meets the wall,
She stands in her usual spot,
Craving a cigarette,
Observing, processing, psycho-analyzing,
Another Saturday night with her friends.

Their forced civilized exch...
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Categories: waste basket, angst, friendship, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative

Sodom and Gomorrah

...Negotiations broke down and the quest for peace became of no accord as

Defiance continued to stand its historical ground.... 

Mixed emotions while closing these hopes; knowing that they had acc...
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Categories: waste basket, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberDesignatged Spot

...DESIGNATED SPOT

Been looking at this spot
This area by my lazy boy chair
How many months
How many years has it been there?

There is an end table, a bookcase
And so many items I won’t innumerate
But...
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Categories: waste basket, depression, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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