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Punch-in-the-Face Poetry

Punch-in-the-Face Poetry showcases poems that leave you sore, gasping, and possibly embarrassed. They make you feel like you've got something to prove. They bring you out swinging.

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“Love Poem,” Robert Bly

When we are in love, we love the grass,
and the barns, and the lightpoles,
And the small mainsteets abandoned all night.

newgreyhair Poem Leave a comment August 20, 2023August 19, 2023

“Disappointment,” Mike Topp

6’5″
4″

newgreyhair Poem Leave a comment July 19, 2023July 17, 2023

“I Have to Tell You,” Dorothea Grossman

I have to tell you,
there are times when
the sun strikes me
like a gong,
and I remember everything,
even your ears.

newgreyhair Poem Leave a comment May 1, 2023
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