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Whittled Poems - Poems about Whittled

Hollow Echo
... Hollowed For an echo My words Returned Are the first words I’ve heard today Alone in this husk Bristled and whittled to the finest point Of which I have never made clear Hollowed out l......

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Categories: whittled, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Whittled Mind
...The whittle mind of self-reflection Within a tiny bit of self-doubt Coming from a stressful day Life has its ups and downs that way Can't say I enjoy it can seem to do without it Just another......

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Categories: whittled, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse



A War Beneath Skin
...Cells held secret ballots in my bones, voting for mutiny in whispers. Cancer, that drunk architect, scribbled collapse into my blood's blueprint. They built black gardens in my lungs, where br......

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Categories: whittled, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers... with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise alive and well seeking gullible guys (once upon a time just like me), who experiences......

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Categories: whittled, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eulogizing
...A lover and a brother are heavy. Recounting the contents of life is work. A vessel holding unaccountable dust may be volumes for a biographer’s notepad. “I miss she real bad!” Whittl......

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Categories: whittled, absence, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse



What Menace
...I saw ten ships departing north, From out the grand Canal. They each were armed with cannons four, With mighty rationale. Atop them flew my country's flag, A phoenix white in pride, It struck a......

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Categories: whittled, adventure, dark, mythology, sea,
Form: I do not know?
Whittling Down
...As we age, we whittle down The things that we can do Or the ways that we can do them So we last the whole day through. I’ve whittled down my exercise And how much I can drink. My energy’s bee......

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Categories: whittled, age, change,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye to the past life
...Feeling the sun on my face Feeling free with music up in the trees I hear you call my name and it becomes a race Knowing I can no longer be at ease Hoping you don’t read between the lines Pre......

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Categories: whittled, abuse, anger, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Hokahe, sam chon
...My uncle died yesterday He was an octogenarian His stroke made him slur To me, he is ever youthful Riding a nicotine stained Mustang Breaking free from his bridle Breaking free from his bride ......

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Categories: whittled, death, family,
Form: Free verse
Grimey
...It shreds me when released, then bursts into confetti. Words are papier-mâché, articles of all of us, tabloids torn apart then glued back together piece by piece. Playing pretend made a masterpie......

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Categories: whittled, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
P O E T , up and running phatic expressions, up and running it is!
...Mirror mirror on the wall, the pre decided fairest of all When I utter fiancé , Did you see all kinds of fees incurred? When I utter Feodor Fees and beyond? And a lightyear and a “......

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Categories: whittled, brother,
Form: Free verse
Becoming our Parents, Take it Easy
... My mother and father never wavered in their routine. After each one of my siblings sprang into life, my father sat on the porch and spit ‘Day’s Work’ tobacco juice down his chin while my mother sna......

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Categories: whittled, family,
Form: Haibun
Sprawling in America
... Trucks hauling away defunct Malls. One city has been transported to another, until superimposed, only the name are different. Freeways chase endless miles, looking for more things to shift, ......

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Categories: whittled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bayou
...A Limerick Poem AABBA A limerick A little windowpane trickled on the left behind diamond A cosmic milky way, solitude, and Bed, bath and beyond The word, to and fro, and surreal, a tenant, a......

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Categories: whittled, bible, bridal shower, devotion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Jack's Knife House
... He whittled away A very large branch That in 6,000 days Was part of his ranch Yet not just the branch Or a tree or two He whittled a forest Full, through and through For this man and kn......

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Categories: whittled, fun, home, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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