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Pinches Poems - Poems about Pinches

Premium Member A Tale of a Ballroom Dance, circa 1925
... His tie knotted tight at the collar pinches the neck, he’d love to holler Her corset pulled tighter than a drum she’d like to scream, but can only hum No ......

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Categories: pinches, fashion, pain, society,
Form: Couplet
Bounded By Grief
... {"The ruins of you lie in the dusk, shall we take this dance or shall we not? You Grace me with your presence though my ambitious trust has vanished and fallen from a Terrance, your hand extend......

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Categories: pinches, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Avoiding Chores for Poetry
...Avoiding Chores for Poetry Mom’s folding laundry as muse pinches me sheets flapping with ink scolding I get beat from both sides unlined bedding is blessed the future shakes out Mom’s......

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Categories: pinches, mom, writing,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member The Cat's Cradle
...'Cat's Cradle's' a string game, --forty inches enables a noose. Fastened end, handles it's stable. Weave string through finger-pinches finagles new patterns that'll form like, 'Candle......

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Categories: pinches, allusion, analogy, appreciation, change,
Form: Lento
SHE IS IT
... Low on the horizon she appeared A silhouette of pulchritude Her face begged to be loved Her dress addressed her needs She was shy but attentive Her green eyes teared a little Her mouth p......

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Categories: pinches, age, love, old,
Form: Free verse



Masting
...Red Oak menstruates in the heat of summer Beech and maples stand back from her labor Moonlight lifts her skirt Wind drifts through her leaves She stomps in circles only the owls divine Piper o......

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Categories: pinches, birth, earth, god, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oceanic Encounters of a Pinching Kind
...Swimming in the ocean a wincing couple pinches Little creature on my leg not more than six or seven inches I looked again, to my surprise Hello! - a trilobite!......

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Categories: pinches, fantasy, giggle, hyperbole, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Iced Cubes
...I don’t get it The now of then The how of why The who of whom Six kids one toilet Last one in line Squeeze tight the cheeks Such drama, nobody speaks Hands that tell lies Search for ......

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Categories: pinches, family, humor, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Winter Wind
...though pinches pierces the winter wind, versatile --- not worse than a foe 30 December......

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Categories: pinches, wind, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hellfire
...Jesus stands before me with two broken arms He proclaims, "you are not forgivable" and tears ran down his face But I'm an innocent man I professed I have bee misjudged Bones protruding an......

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Categories: pinches, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeing Unseeing
...Last night I dreamt of them Fleeing under the cover of darkness Liars, adulterers, murderers and thieves Terrified of the monsters on their heels They flew into an abandoned house and began push......

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Categories: pinches, evil, horror, imagination, magic,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Whenever
...Snow sprays off crow wings. Flurries drift like torn lace curtains over the blacktop. The porch rocking chair is draped like a madhouse ghost. Nobody is going anywhere, the side-roads are ge......

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Categories: pinches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1929
...1929 Depression. "Way back then..." A terrible time, when good people were tested. Some did okay. They lived through it. They still raised their families. Some did not do as well. ......

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Categories: pinches, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Valentine's Madness
...To her I wanna give flowers I want to surprise her with the most expensive necklace I desire to take her out for a vacation in Miami She absolutely wants to see me Getting the most romantic dinne......

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Categories: pinches, betrayal, break up, valentines
Form: Free verse
Play
...Kids know that creation is play; understand that imagination requires endless reconstruction. Grown-ups rely on buckets of hope and pinches of salt, forget how to play. Broken toys in long......

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Categories: pinches, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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