Best Thumb Poems

Do not take revenge, my friends,
but leave room for God’s wrath,
for it is written: “It is mine to avenge.
I will repay,” says the Lord. 

Romans 12:19 Bible NIV

WHY THUMB YOUR NOSE AT GOD

sins will be dealt with
why thumb your nose at God
with wiggling fingers
the itch...

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There once was a cougar named Rose

who kept the young men on their toes.

Working in her garden

they'd say "beg your pardon

I'll bet you could use a good hose!"



for Bawdy Limericks Two contest
sponsored by Roy Jerden...

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Thumb screws its way walking a straight line down the middle of the road hitching a ride on a new page no road kill here life’s a breeze surfing open minds along the torturous wake with all the sweet things




Candide Diderot. ‘24 


Shuggie Otis...

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She has magic hands,
Persephone's touch.
Everything she plants, 
thrives vigorously.

I recall the time
she unwittingly produced
blossoms from dead limbs. 
Wish I could do that!

She stuck the twigs, 
broken off a nearby tree, 
in dirt to mark the spots 
where she planted seeds.

In Spring, peach trees 
sprang up...

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(A Shadow Sonnet)

Earth mother, now return to Mother Earth
for time has taken what you were born for.
Listen for its call, oh dear one, listen,
and answer, before it pulls both thee and
 
me. As rain washes earth's green over me,
I remember your thumb, stained green as...

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Writing a poem with only my thumbs
Opposable digits are A-number one
Will autocorrect fix the words I write wrong?
Not all words are lucky as I coax them along
My phone keyboard clicking as I’m typing the words
Now back to correct my fast-thumb-spelling turds

How long can I go...

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 Gardening pursuits
A green and healthy income
Seeds into flowers ...

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Tom Thumb, with split ears and abscess,
came to us on an autumn night.
A feline atlas with alley hard shoulders,
but a calm, cool warrior nonetheless.
Named for his Hemingway mittens,
an irony of bulk to literary lore,
for he surely would make a short meal
of a murine steed fit...

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Thumbs hold first-string
position in the hand.
They send messages
everyone understands.

Thumbs up say,
“You did it.
Go get it!”

Thumbs down say,
“You blew it.
You’ll regret it!”

Thumbs out signal,
“Get ‘outta’ here,
please disappear.”

Thumbs forward coax,
“Come here, 
gimme a hug.”

Arms form columns,
but thumbs speak volumes.

Your middle finger
speaks its own language....

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One day just like that she began.  A little smudge no bigger than God's thumb.
Forgetting old bones and scarred memories she was born one early March. 
A lion in a baby carriage roaring and carrying on as if she had just been 
flapped to...

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Hum Drum Thumb

Has a person ever put or placed a ban
On those putting marbles in their tin can
And after suffering much more bad news
All of his marbles he would loose.

More than likely what happened after that
Is some marbles had eyes looking like a cat
And after...

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***Do me a favor, readers...also, read the second part of this lyric. If you don't, I'll be disappointed...I worked hard on this song. I wrote this all night...took me from 11 PM to 2:30 AM to write this...please respect my writings and read each line....

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shadow of the greyblue stairs
heading up to who knows where
jaws of a shark on the litter bone night wall

crazy to my right the lifeless painting
hangs speaking to no one
but the devils grass leaning
against the heavenly window

saintly church bell shadows
empty pews 
turning screws
confessional blues

feelin like crooked...

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Bought myself a cactus plant
With flower on the top,
Such a dazzling orange
It seems phony, like a prop.

Set it on my windowsill
So light and air will fill it;
Wonder how long it’ll take
Before I start to kill it....

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Exposing its face—
The thumb of a hitchhiker
The thumb stops a car

And the traveler gets in—
Another story begins!...

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