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Wrappers Poems - Poems about Wrappers

BEYOND THE VEIL
... Handicapped by charades, A cacophony of voices Comes from the real owners of the world Who gather, roar, and whisper in a coven. Wolly bat and tongie dog Adorned with black wrappers Teeth......

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Categories: wrappers, 12th grade, identity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Shape of Absence
...And I remember the rain before it ever started— the smell of asphalt humming like old vinyl static under my ribs. You were talking about birds, maybe, or death, or the last time your mother called......

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Categories: wrappers, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ugly Plastic Fern
...Doctor’s office The fern in the corner is plastic They couldn’t afford silk? There is nothing refreshing about it There is a candy jar The old guy has been up there six times I know because h......

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Categories: wrappers, satire,
Form: Free verse
Still Blinking
...Cornfield aluminum recycled communion wafers. We drank Gatorade wine from a stolen lunchbox, sat Indian style in the irrigation ditch, reciting Tool lyrics as scripture. My IPhone had a cracked......

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Categories: wrappers, 7th grade, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
By the Side of the Road
...Drive down a highway and look left or right And I can, for sure, guarantee By the side of the road, resting there in plain sight Will be plenty of garbage to see. Plastic bags strewn around or ......

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Categories: wrappers, car, earth,
Form: Rhyme



A version of you
...A version of you I loved and one that will always be mine— While you speak to me with words now, I looked at you with feelings inside. You greeted me with a nod, While I spread out my arm......

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Categories: wrappers, farewell, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Echoes of a Silent Shore
...Echoes of the Silent Shore Garbage, raw sewage, needles, syringes, food wrappers. Plastic, cans, bottles, trash, oily sand, old fishing line. I stand on the shore and I see waste and destru......

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Categories: wrappers, pollution,
Form: Free verse
The Kea
...“We must feel glad that, for the moment, the kea has been saved to amuse us, surprise us, even annoy us and damage our property, and cheekily remind us that land was not made just for the benefit of ......

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Categories: wrappers, bird,
Form: Free verse
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
... there's a second ocean sprawled like an accident, a spill of plastic guts and chemical veins choking what swims, suffocating the tides that once dreamed of moonlight and salt. we did this. ......

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Categories: wrappers, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I were a child again, I would learn to draw worlds from lines and curves of dreams
...If I were a child again, I would learn to draw worlds from lines and curves of dreams, To breathe life into paper with colors intertwined in a silent and pure symphony, But as an adult, I don't eve......

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Categories: wrappers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Change the Time and Place
...Change the Time and Place We're running, running forever, cross the beach, cross the misty field. Where are we? We don't care. The damn daisy ring? The damn daisy ring. You kneel in the g......

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Categories: wrappers, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Incidental
...Countless wrappers were strewn in the yard and the sugar was kicking in hard. All Hallow’s bequeath? A new set of teeth that would max out his dad’s credit card.......

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Categories: wrappers, candy, halloween,
Form: Limerick
The Birthday
...Ding-Dong, Who’s there? It’s me, your student. Please come in. I gobbled some chocolates, And disposed of the wrappers in the bin. Is there something special? Try & guess. Are you going to do......

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Categories: wrappers, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beau is a retriever
...my new puppy runs like a gazelle except faster He is a retriever all right He finds whiskey bottles, bottle caps, gum wrappers, He has been bringing home pieces of a porch lately Not our porch, a......

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Categories: wrappers, dog,
Form: Free verse
Rou Jia Mo
... all seasoned readed and fried one trout filleted 6 medium shrimp six slices off procuttio six toasted and garlic buttered hoagie loaves lettuce tomato pickles fried onion with Specail sa......

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Categories: wrappers, blessing, culture, food, friendship,
Form: Ballade

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