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Backroom Poems - Poems about Backroom

Time Has Nothing to Do but Dance
...A crow struts into a bar, it's a crow, not a native American. There's a hot wind blowing through town Texas Rangers are drinking on the job. A young beauty is busy capturing boys' hearts on her......

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Categories: backroom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Conception
...The day is conceived, tossed bedsheets birth landscapes. Apelike, a grin gawps. In the backroom of a slow thought I dress for breakfast - recall the tropics, sticky rice, coconut milk and ......

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Categories: backroom, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Underground Fun Fun
...gossip in the velvet declares my surrender to strip club excess, where fantasies unfold a g-string serenata that stains the linger a slow-mo ride through motels of the bold the DJ's drumbeat......

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Categories: backroom, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunny’s summer
...I just finished Face Timing with Sunny, one of Lisa and my roommates. She’s an edgy half-a-laugh, and I can’t wait to see her in person. Sunny’s a slipa and a seductive gadabout - this poem is abou......

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Categories: backroom, character, confidence, crazy, culture,
Form: Free verse
My Better Angels
...The morning breeze whispers through window. and a song plays in my head again and again and again while a new poem yet unmeasured stirs. I ponder the many ways to say love and affection. ......

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Categories: backroom, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Theeby's
...Sixty years have passed. No one knew how to spell its name. No one knew when it first opened. It was forever, like the infernal summer heat. It stands indelible at the end of my street, at the e......

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Categories: backroom, 5th grade, candy, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backroom
...When fear and stress overwhelm I squeeze into the backroom of my mind... I slip away into the world of words Words that tell and know, and heal. ......

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Categories: backroom, angst, faith, fear, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sex Stories
...Dark women and their softly lit shadows haunt our days. Men who dwell upon form and beauty, are attracted to moths, they grow too old, too fast, their erotic minds like over-sharpened pencils......

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Categories: backroom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Change
... In America there is talk of changes coming Revolution is the tune that we've been humming We’re all standing on the ledge they're trying to push us over the edge To politicians standing bel......

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Categories: backroom, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forbidden Zone
...Honey Locust Trees, perched precariously on Ledges lost amid ruptured chasms of evil Ant hills, protruding fistfuls of grapefruit-sized Giant ants suffering remnants within sight of Chernobyl, i......

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Categories: backroom, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
World War Three
...WORLD WAR THREE Yes, the noise is all about planes and tanks Frontline hardware, as was always the case But in reality, it’s cheaper timely innovation It’s the third world war – of disinformati......

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Categories: backroom, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Song of the Soldier
...Hey Mr. President tell us don't we have the right To question your authority when you send us off to fight? Are we never to answer when we hear our brother's cry And must we all be silent as you m......

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Categories: backroom, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Recall and Restore Our Freedoms
...American soldiers have given their lives in war after war after war after war Be they in the Army, in the Navy in the Air Force or the Marine Corps For four constitutional freedoms ......

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Categories: backroom, america, freedom, hero, memorial
Form: Rhyme
To See Forever
...To see forever I left the ship at the industrial part of the island my tour of duty was over and took a taxi to the other side to take a ferry to town. At the café near the ferry landing, I dr......

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Categories: backroom, best friend, blessing, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Take Care Wally Cleaver
...*Image of Tony Dow by News. AUDIO VIDEO of 500 Miles by Peter, Paul & Mary Take Care Wally Cleaver Wally: Watch the hair! My faculties are under arrest! I have been subpoenaed b......

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Categories: backroom, appreciation, character, childhood, film,
Form: Metrical Tale

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