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Ashtrays Poems - Poems about Ashtrays

daddy died alone in his home
...daddy died alone in his home ashtrays with cigarette butts completely hoarded his deathbed the smell of smoke almost immediately made my eyes turn red i regret the 15 years since i last saw him h......

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Categories: ashtrays, dad, death, growth, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers, that last light willed to die at the rig of a darkened room. You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting of tumb......

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Categories: ashtrays, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form: Free verse



Things That Should Grow on Trees
...Things That Should Grow on Trees Things that should grow on trees include: big sea birds with extremely long wings, old-fashioned shoe horns, tape recorders who play sporadically cries of ......

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Categories: ashtrays, humor,
Form: Free verse
my sister and cancer
...My sister and cancer   Maybe it was in 1946 when the winter was very hard the big lake outside town froze solid my brother had given me an old pair of skates something with leather binning, I t......

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Categories: ashtrays, absence, abuse, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
It was Christmas
...It was Christmas, and we were young, when the snow was deep and the lights were strung, along Stony hill, Allen and Main. And my uncle`s dead but he too would light up on a fifth of bourbon a d......

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Categories: ashtrays, christmas, drink, family, food,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Golden Rules At the Finest Schools
...I sent my daughter to the finest schools where she learned all the golden rules Race-baiting pays, one's pronouns are weighed with marijuana fill up the ashtrays 'B-' student......

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Categories: ashtrays, business, daughter, drug, education,
Form: Couplet
Real As Me
...A corner has been turned A chapter has been burned A stipend has been earned — Was it by me? You can’t unearth a friend If he’s stuck in the deep end And he sure as hell cannot pretend He......

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Categories: ashtrays, character, friend, growth, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Trousers
...Trousers are ashtrays Traveler's affectation Embracing the dirt.......

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Categories: ashtrays, fashion, image, sympathy,
Form: Haiku
Hearts Faded With Time
...Hearts faded with time. Skinny jeans and smokey air The sound of laughter and pool balls on a table The smell of damp carpet and stale beer Full ashtrays and sweaty skin Those were the dives I......

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Categories: ashtrays, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before Corporate Cafes
...Before corporate café`s took over and Starbucks became so ubiquitous, on every corner of your city, small business cafés thrived. There was Antique Row Café Ave; four café`s that stood alongside eac......

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Categories: ashtrays, social,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A World of Cravings
...When you have a desire for something, You have an intense craving that just won’t quit. For some people it’s called a Nicotine Fit. Desperate people will check the ashtrays Before they ask......

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Categories: ashtrays, character, community, destiny, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Rat Race
...7/11/21 Never been the smoothest talker Got to make the best of it before I need a walker Had a lot or nothing to offer Wasn't always worth the bother 4 days a week I work with and help doct......

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Categories: ashtrays, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Drive
...How small we were sitting in the backseat of that mammoth car. We were dwarfed on the giant sofa-like bench waiting like a great amusement ride about to start. While we waited we explored our new sur......

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Categories: ashtrays, car,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member God Bless the Usa
...I smoked a pack of Marlboros Every day, left butts smoldering In dirty, smelly ashtrays The nicotine addiction compelled Me to quit… yet, I did not I smoked until there was only Short, spasmi......

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Categories: ashtrays, addiction, satire, usa,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Three Score and Fifteen Years Ago
...Three Score and Fifteen Years Ago By Franklin Price 11/14/2020 Three score and fifteen years ago I was born upon this earth Joined a family of eight, Was the ninth, for what it's worth Fou......

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Categories: ashtrays, birthday, celebration, family, life,
Form: Rhyme

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