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Under Her Thumb Poems - Poems about Under Her Thumb

Under Her Thumb Poems - Examples of all types of poems about under her thumb to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for under her thumb.
Premium Member Shooting Bottle Caps
...Shooting bottle caps, ring finger off thumb. And a little cake - the two breaks in half, fixed with melting wax and lighter. Light years of 22 in impromptu breakfast party then the boy...Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Lilith
... I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice borrowed from Eden, a deception of men ascending into the hollow o......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, analogy, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Over The Top
...Sun up you're up time's up get up light on paste on brush up brush down brush all around chin up shave up wash up wipe up you're out kids up mom's not suit up tie on press down the thumb......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, character, husband, life, marriage,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A LESSON REMEMBERED
... It’s a lesson I learned in grade school that still echoes in my mind… A lesson on the sadness and cruelty of prejudice… and the joys of being compassionate and kind… A large new student entere......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Dermatillomania
... Am I a freak? I pick my skin until I bleed It brings me peace and comfort Google says it’s my mental health or OCD It goes away for weeks, but when it comes back I have to feed My finger......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, addiction, anxiety, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Yours
...You lips so close, so promising awe-inspiring inviting enticing If only... I sigh I die to everything else but this wondering... ah....wondering... what it would be like to touch ......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, desire, first love, kiss,
Form: Narrative
The Greatest Show on Earth
...The bees have begun tuning their violins, raking their wings along the sleep-filled strings as I sit in the parking lot peeling stickers off of half-priced books. The roses are unfurling their......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, love,
Form: Free verse
Strawberries
...A big, glass bowl of oranges with eight pleated butterflies— perfectly symmetrical etched along the side. The sunlight, with all the eagerness, all the youth of morning pouring through......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, fruit, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Brothers Grimm
... Axioms, theorems, rules of thumb hypotheses, conundrums Pursuers of knowledge, those Brothers Grimm ~ Hansel and Gretel’s trail of crumbs ......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, fantasy, humor, science,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member HEART LANGUAGE SPEAKS-
...speakingWhat language does the heart speak not a thumb thumb, thumb thumb thumb, thumb what language does the heart speak whispers vibrates electronic vibrations love unti......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Guitarists' Language
...I tell you my secrets through the hums Of buzzing, stringed bees The rumblings of my thumb I pretend to play it all with ease My memories seem to wane But my fingers know their place A screec......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
the last viking
...The Last Viking There had been a storm, that uprooted  an old oak that exposed a gave the grave of the last Viking, a rusty  sword beside him its grip was made  fallen stars, he had been a chief......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, adventure, deep,
Form: Blank verse
I flipped the script: Does it make it better?
...,,someone messaged you", said the classmate I asked my mom before to go to birthday to watch a film through. The hall was much more tight in the brain I drew, he was facing me with the phone in ......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
On the Rug
...On the Rug with Death, two beers in hand (though no one here drinks) we laugh, his lifespan a joke still fizzed. My breath ignites wars, lulls drivers to sleep and builds bridges for his gu......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, age, bereavement, confusion, desire,
Form: Free verse
falling again
...When I met you I was numb But you came along and gave me a thumb I reached out to grab it but you held out your hand Then I waited for you to leave but you said you will wait till I land I......Read the rest...
Categories: under her thumb, feelings, moving on, romance,
Form: Couplet

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