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Back Street Poems - Poems about Back Street

Premium Member Time will tell
...The days run long, the sun burns bright. when i am with you all seems so right Our time alone has been so short of late But memory takes me back to our first date That first night together, we ......

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Categories: back street, appreciation, fantasy, feelings, friendship
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gift of Recovery
... She'd been been beaten, pushed around and abandoned like trash without a collar around her neck she was a dog with no name Dogtrotting slowly behind the back street she licked at her rash u......

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Categories: back street, animal, appreciation,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Front Row Tickets to Mainstreet
...In a crowded room filled with high society, and In the facade of decadence, plays the Back Street Symphony Winos falling asleep covered in yesterdays news A lone saxaphone player, playing the blue......

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Categories: back street, allusion, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You are the Music
... 'You are the music', the guitar strings of my favourite song. Your lyrics 'touch my life,' as you are the twin to my soul. What 'am I' without you, when all melodies sound so wrong. I'll......

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Categories: back street, love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Behind the wall
...The coffee shops stand by the canal Beautiful scenery and in flannels All spruced up to put on the show How wealthy they are we don't need to know Behind the wall is a back street ginnel With ......

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Categories: back street, analogy, discrimination, drink, environment,
Form: Free verse



A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
...A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte specified such so as to issue a rhyme, but proceeded as this scribe didst git linkedin with the cutting crew, mow or less......

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Categories: back street, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Sunday Street
...She walked down the street with her hands clasp in thine and for one moment it felt like something divine; she was walking out of an old life into a new one, but I couldn’t tell where she was from. ......

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Categories: back street, beautiful, confidence, deep, friend,
Form: Narrative
A Common Whore
...Just a common whore they said Who rolled the drunken tars As they staggered out from The Dockside taverns and bars. Lime Street, Liverpool was Where she plied her trade. Where her drunken barga......

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Categories: back street, england, history, society,
Form: Rhyme
A Piece of You
...I saw you standing by tree holding on to the leaves and folding your hands as the untold mystery with bare back and rocks walk through the wood looking for the man. I stand aloof in the dark wait......

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Categories: back street, engagement, environment, family, fate,
Form: Narrative
Uprooted
...Unlike the Famous Five, with capers, japes and adventures, boats and well stocked picnics, we lived a back street life. With a sock and masking tape ball and mucky fat sarnies. The Family Allowa......

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Categories: back street, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Two Thumbs Up
...This is an unbelievable true story of a time when I was in my younger years. I drove out to California with a buddy of mine to spend some time with my brother. To make a long story short, we ended up......

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Categories: back street, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Rough Justice
...I got mugged in Moenchengladbach Straight up and down I got mugged in Moenchengladbach In a back street of the town. I’d been drinking with this bird, Said she was an exotic dancer\ But the ......

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Categories: back street, adventure, drink, humor, military,
Form: Rhyme
Precision Swearing
...Precision swearing they call it A term that may sound absur But it’s economical with the breath And wastes not a single word, It rolls smoothly from the tongue Instantly relieving pain And, in ......

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Categories: back street, emotions, feelings, humorous, language,
Form: Rhyme
Random Musings
...In Small Doses Living a life is like taking poison –you die a little each day. I am screwed Know not when? Know not how? –Marriage happened. Gone Astray......

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Categories: back street, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think Im In Danger - Away In a Manger Parody
...I think I’m in danger I could end up dead When my wife smells the perfume on her side of the bed The perfumes I buy her From a cheap back-street dive Don’t smell like this perfume It’s Chanel ......

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Categories: back street, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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