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Pokes Poems - Poems about Pokes

The Onion
...Satire is a tricky thing And won’t appeal to half Of its potential readers, But the other half will laugh. The Onion is satirical And I’m, for sure, a fan, For it pokes fun of politics (At......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member jealous daffodil
...Sparkles of faerie wings flit past the pink tulips Sweeping and swerving, frisky faerie flips Daffodil is jealous of this marvelous mythical attention Pokes fun at floral’s spring gardening conven......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, flower,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member i've just played santa for the first time
...i'm talking world war three blues and how the baubles resemble the planet neptune one kid has trashed the grotto flameless LED tea light candles on the mantlepiece another exclaims, 'can we s......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, adventure, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
...The world today is split in two … or three... or four... or maybe more, but nonetheless, one must confess, all wage their wars as heretofore. While blunderbusses prey for us within our world w......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
sensory grass
...sensory grass tickles your toes soft pokes every word is a stroke of a blade not a brush a lawnmower in the distance breaks the silence what the hell… the smell of fresh-cut grass and t......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, appreciation, beautiful, dream, happy,
Form: Prose Poetry



Redundant Love
...i dont know what im scared of im scared to fall in love with you scared that i may mess it up i dont know this game I've had zero practice and im not intimate at all in fact i cringe at stuff li......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, appreciation, beautiful, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glimmer
...A glimmer of hope pokes a hole in all those clouds; American style.......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, america, emotions, feelings,
Form: Senryu
My Haunted Home
...Under the sink, there is a glow. It’s something bad, that’s all I know. I’m shifting unknowingly. There’s a hole in my sock so my toe pokes free. A monster is by my toe nail. Against the window,......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stages
...It cowers in the corner, newly born. I turn my spite-soaked back, riddled with resentment and pull the thin veil to sink beneath its cover. I will not watch it crawl, but it breathes, a shado......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, anger, death, depression, sister,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Moth Man Lament
...Chasing this into that chasing that into this chasing silhouettes into a half assed crevasse echoing " boy what is your purpose on this earth earth. Poking the dark for a piece of velvet, a not......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paradise Island Dream
...The kids are gone, I'm retired, I'm takin' a long vacation, To Paradise Island with sunny beaches, that's my destination! I'll spend the days savorin' a climate of seventy-two degrees, Snoozin' 'n......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, beach, dream, humorous, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Letter to Poetry Soup
...The laptop screen flickers as I turn to you. A dream lingers and a branch outside my window waves. I browse posts and comments and I’m connected. A bird off somewhere sings a world waits out......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, allegory, community, friendship, morning,
Form: Free verse
Tiger Lily
...Go get em tiger, says my Lily flower She makes my fire burn and turns my lips into lava Your red strength and orange personality is more beautiful than the sunset So, don't mind me if I just sit a......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, encouraging, kiss, love, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Penknob Kid
...PENKNOB: Is our household word that my kids euphemistically created of the two phrases that I purposely refrained its actual pronunciation by slurring PENKNOB: Phrase #1. Hands-Off/or don'......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, children, courage, cry, hurt,
Form: Ottava rima
Apparitions
...morning stillness I sit at my table and look out the window after rain the sun pokes through clouds waking dreams ......Read the rest...
Categories: pokes, dream, morning, nature,
Form: Cinquain

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