Tin Poems - Poems about Tin

There once was a sleek silvery sardine Who dreamed of marrying a svelte eel queen With his heart ever lurching, Swimming through seaweed searching In an olive oiled tin, he was last seen. ...

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In "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," I felt my fingernails digging into his back during an intensely charged moment. I was surprised to see tears rolling down the cheeks of a strong man—he wept! He sighed! He reached his climax, time and again. Was it a display of sportsmanship or a sign of injury? ...

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I pried with a screw-driver driven into a lid sealed with age, and rust, to crack open a callous retribution, set aside, tombed over. I was curious to learn how much remained and in what condition. Up came the lid with a gurgle, fizz, hiss, expelled with age smell. The paint on top, had dried, to a skin, a...

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tin cup music life’s story was etched on her face carved with pocket-knife memories rubbed in with grammar school erasers and colored like heavy wet fog on a stinson beach winter’s morning . smiles were kept tucked in her pocket until a coin rang out like handel’s messiah hitting the bottom of her tin cup a reminder of how far she had fallen in a life...

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The eating of pie before dinner, It isn’t on point to get thinner. It’s best to let go That tin pan of woe, And be a calorical winner. ...

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i'm whiskey beats outta country jazz, too classic old's city in LA high damn runnin up you like water all most hiding skin and overatures lest i grieve through absurd trist's with confi, daunting clapper town east block alter girls choired saints lost frames too paint sorry bouts runnin up like water's mam...

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I was but a tin man, A cold and heartless can, Frozen solid stuck on my feet, But then I heard a beat, It was you that oiled my joints, Many unrivaled selfless points, You cared for this piece of tin, To give life where none had been, Caring for me with little rest, Until again a beat from my chest, Showing me what true...

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There once was a man made of tin, Whose joints made a horrible din. “I need oil,” he’d plea, “Or a heart, possibly, But rust ruins romance again!”...

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The Tin Man of Wizard of Oz is kind but don't know it because though shiny and smart he's made with no heart- but finds one to pump up his cause! ...

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That wicked old witch made me the Tin Man Sans a heart, I'm like a rusty tin can I creak like a screechy hinge Making my many friends cringe ...

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The Wicked Witch was Tin Man’s fantasy He'd never seen such a beauty as she It rained and his joints seized Left poor Tin Man quite peeved Every step that he took was misery... They stopped at Yellow Brick Rd gas station Asked the pump jockey for lubrication He sprayed Tin Man with grease So, he could move with ease Tin Man jumped up...

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When Dorothy and Tin Man were dating She didn’t prepare for the mating Til’ she heard a bang And shouted out, “Dang, Something inside there’s inflating” Since Dorothy’s one chick he lusted Poor Tin said he was disgusted Coz there was no oil can Nearby them at hand To free up his zipper now rusted As Tin was kissing Dorothy’s lips He sadly knew he had...

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I’ll be keeping this one rather brief; my arthritis is causing me grief. Now I’m not one to coddle, but Bobcat’s a good model and grease fittings would provide relief....

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In twilight's hush, 'neath olive boughs, The wind does sing its somber vows, A tin soldier stands, a lone array, Where whispers waltz at close of day. His heart, a drum, beats soft and slow, A rhythm telling tales of woe, Of comrades lost to time's great siege, And victories that dwell in legend's cage. Once clad...

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Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin... from the Harris-Walz front where liberal minded socially progressive electorate doth agonizingly grunt targeted in crosshairs scoped out eager and ready to be mortally wounded courtesy notorious big headed (and bigoted) infamous for bearing arms as if going on a hunt as attested to him and recorded for all of posterity on March...

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