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Schlep Poems - Poems about Schlep

Growing Old
...Growing old is very strange For certain things are bound to change And others you must rearrange To fit the way you’re feeling. Since doing things requires pep And sometimes just that extra st......

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Categories: schlep, age,
Form: Rhyme
I stand proud with pride
...I stand proud with pride... exuding suave debonair air plus head and shoulders taller (than the empire state building - hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?) since September eleventh two thous......

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Categories: schlep, adventure, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Home Is Where You Hang Air
...COUPLET After a couple of Tequila Sunrise so I swap my drink that'll keep open my eyes so I had a glass of Kahlua and cream that's a blunder as I fell into a dream INNER RHYME I awoke that fe......

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Categories: schlep, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of Nature COS No 15: AABB
...Goes a white doe, faint glimpse a wondering. Rare diaphanous prismatic heartstring, astir, the bestilled buds wake an ocean. Nascent feels Aurora's palm in motion, iridescence and redolence yon o......

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Categories: schlep, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
It, By Any Other Name
...her it was too good for me i knew it right away my it had to schlep around like a dog chained to a cloud just as moody as a mood can get it is no good being too much of an it it took ......

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Categories: schlep, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost... ~ May fourth, 2005 wedded bliss nearly fifty years half a century almost me not most favorite grown offspring, she (when alive) did boast, ab......

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Categories: schlep, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
No, I Don'T Need a Bag
...I have a little shopping sack That folds into a square. It’s nylon; tucked inside my bag, I hardly know it’s there. The one I carry’s navy blue With lots of bright green stars And it is stron......

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Categories: schlep, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To See Your Exceptional Smile Sparkle
...I offer to you my sweet heart every day In lieu of heaven and honey cakes I offer to you bouquets of pretty flowers To see your sensational smile sparkle. I think of you every second of the day......

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Categories: schlep, black love, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be Brave To Say Hello
...Sometimes, we have to be brave to say hello, To a neighbor or a stranger who won't respond. At times, we have to wave at the ducks in the pond, Without being sprayed with spittle or water of coc......

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Categories: schlep, anti bullying, bullying, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day of the Dead
...weep not when we die don't let your life go awry for the time was nigh attributes were diminished the mortal course now finished words were all written no longer need to fit in worry what's......

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Categories: schlep, day, death, destiny, farewell,
Form: Tanka
Playing the Trombone
...My grandson’s in the band this year; He’s playing the trombone. We wondered how he’d handle it Or get those deep notes blown. The instrument within its case Seems hard for him to schlep, But ......

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Categories: schlep, appreciation, grandson, music,
Form: Rhyme
A Former Slender Man Lapsed Unitarian Anorexic
...A former slender man (lapsed Unitarian anorexic)... deplores adipose tissue gain No Holiday music can soothe savage beast washboard abdomen weight watcher's dream fleeced skinny bag of lovely b......

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Categories: schlep, 7th grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
Deft Star Student and Beloved Dynamic Daughter Upon Her Twenty Fourth Birthday
...Deft "star student" and beloved dynamic daughter upon her twenty fourth birthday I suppose... see:)? twas approximately early/mid March nineteen ninety six begat your fate obstetrics and gyne......

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Categories: schlep, absence, adventure, birthday, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Poke the Bear
...Inspirational beauty, comes to life every spring. The baby birds in their nest, to their mothers still cling. The hibernating bear, still asleep in his den. Will soon wake up cranky, so we'll let ......

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Categories: schlep, animal, humor, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Bar Math
...There are five likely females (not counting the barmaid), plus a few calculating men. There are others, dead-eyed drinkers and such, who don’t count. Time to figure odds. T......

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Categories: schlep, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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