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Smarting Poems - Poems about Smarting

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
...The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris I led a boring life. The end. All joking aside, now the epilogue. As a bookish fellow born Januar......

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Categories: smarting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunset Swansong
... At the frail fringe of the twilight zone the dwindling day flushes depleted the halcyon horizon with the last shower of cinnabar sequins, the sunset splendor tran......

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Categories: smarting, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sonata Of Sunset Swansong
... At the fringe of the twilight zone the dwindling day flushes halcyon horizon with cinnabar sequins, the sunset splendor spins celestial strands in the formless film of cadenced cloud,......

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Categories: smarting, future, hope, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery
...Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery... lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace, where dark shadows eclipse edge of night indistinguishable from the twilight zone. Within the Int......

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Categories: smarting, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seasons-Footle Haibuns
...Autumn Let us begin in the current season, Not the season of beginnings but of seasoning. Leaves bold Wise, old Winter Hither it comes, white or gray, falling, f......

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Categories: smarting, family, seasons,
Form: Footle



Premium Member The Old Rotary
...*PV - Proverbial Verbiage The Old Rotary Dialing out…zzzzip…zzzzzzzip…zzzzzzzip and zip…zzip…zzzip…zzzzip and brring… long distance was not a thing for children. they could only ......

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Categories: smarting, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Winter sun
...“wundor weardh on wege water weardh to bane*” Across the path of fallen leaves, dark and unremembered, Millions of white crystals teeming from a leaden sky Darting like tiny daggers into my eyes......

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Categories: smarting, nature, snow, sunshine, winter,
Form: Free verse
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
...Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters... five months ago to the day Twas the cusp of tooth thousand twenty three summer solstice, when yours truly (a fool and his money went separate ......

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Categories: smarting, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
White and Crimson Scribbles
...My crimson scribbles; there is no meaning, there is no feeling, and there will be no healing, not today at least… Horizontal, never vertical for some reason. I cannot explain, though reasoning is ......

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Categories: smarting, depression, feelings, mental health,
Form: Free verse
January 13th, 2023
...January 13th, 2023 After wishing upon a star to garner a handsome windfall as a positive fated birthday gift lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me, cuz I discerned a partial telephone me......

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Categories: smarting, adventure, anger, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
...Please help yarn hexed door neighbor... Yours truly pinned down by invisible vestiges of coronavirus and getting attacked from angry plague of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn grossly misto......

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Categories: smarting, abuse, anger, bullying, character,
Form: Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag. I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine, and came acro......

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Categories: smarting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Read Poem For Title
...Rather than contact tech savvy Macbook Pro technician Computer technology a dog send boot also a source of woe, cuz prohibitive costs charged by technicians to troubleshoot Macbook Pro just re......

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Categories: smarting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tree In My Yard
...in my yard stands a tree lone like a hermit, regal like a monarch its roots dug deep its branches touching the heavens peeking behind the skies veil sometimes its leaves rustle overall it i......

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Categories: smarting, beautiful, environment, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Be a Light Amid All Cares
...pain and suffering is all that I see around though now I don’t have them to seriously confront, yet a nameless unease weighs me down at the sight of hundreds cruelly beaten down how ma......

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Categories: smarting, angst, cheer up, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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