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Beady Eyed Poems - Poems about Beady Eyed

Premium MemberCrooked Crossroads

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Standing at a dusty crossroads,  
The sun brutally beats down  
Upon flesh left for dead.  
High noon mingles with midnight;  
Diminishing reality becomes increasingly threadbare.  

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Categories: beady eyed, angst, death, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeath in the Desert

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Listen for the rustling sound
of the beady-eyed belly crawlers 
deceitful serpents slithering on the ground, 
flicking a two-forked tongue and hissing.
They should be heeded as a dire w...
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Categories: beady eyed, death, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA True and Silly Tale

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Do you know the tale about the guy who thought
two small, cute, fluffy poodles he had bought?
But they were not two poodles, for in fact,
the DNA of any dog they lacked.

Do you know what real...
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Categories: beady eyed, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Leggy Winds Disrupt Weather Girls

...Longshanks drainpipe and whistle through the day.
pterodactyls got it easy in this wide-open sky,
they glide too far up to be real anymore.

The beady-eyed slinkers that wriggle under our ploddin...
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Categories: beady eyed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Peacock King

...An old peacock has lost his voice, among the hens
he wanders, his soundless beak a' clacking.

Once he rode the roof of life, once he strutted
across its gaming board, a tyrant lover,
a beady-ey...
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Categories: beady eyed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberYes, Life Crumbled At His Feet Like Decay On An Old Log

...Yes, Life Crumbled At His Feet Like Decay On An Old Log

Yes, life crumbled at his feet like decay on an old log
that morn was abjectly eerie had a low moving fog
and in the distance a low murmur...
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Categories: beady eyed, age, deep, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme

Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date

...Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous read...
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Categories: beady eyed, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRed Is Green

...The Power-to-be
  likes to decree
that red is green 
  and vice versa

The audience rapt
  sucked into his trap
They wildly applaud
  a beady-eyed fraud...
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Categories: beady eyed, fashion, satire, society,
Form: Couplet

The Buck Stops Here

...The promises fell
as excuses became,
the voice of the man
who is casting the blame
While off on vacation
these moment to share
Informing the masses
he hadn’t a care

“It comes from a...
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Categories: beady eyed, political,
Form: Rhyme

I Am Squirrel

...I am squirrel, watch me stroll.

I scurry to my left, and strut to my right.
I shimmy, shake, and go.
Nature is my dance floor.
My moves are crisp.
Elvis & M.J. toss over in amazement.

I'll ...
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Categories: beady eyed, adventure, animal, dance, i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Snake On Ps Hill

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Oy, he has the answers to all!
He is psychiatrist, pollster,
Self-righteous, pompous 
And that will be his downfall.

Beady-eyed, he is just waiting for you.
A snake charmer who loves...
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Categories: beady eyed, abuse, bullying, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Minnow In My Soup

...Waiter waiter!
look!

	but monsieur
	you ordered a minnow soup, n'est pas?

Waiter waiter
Not one swimming 
around in my soup
a brown minnow full of brown poop


I don't want minnow poop
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Categories: beady eyed, art, drink, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse

Falcon Ready

...Feathers gather on the wing
Sore with precision in their flight
An updraft lifts the beady eyed visitor
A hunt begins on hunger pangs of black
Grows from the dawn of times survival
Launched into...
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Categories: beady eyed, animal, bird, death, food,
Form: Free verse

Flatulence Upon First Date

...Upon the first date (decades ago) with the gal,
whose troth aye did pledge allegiance to wed
we agreed to dine at an ex-mex eatery
in north Wales, Pennsylvania, where angels feared to tread
caref...
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Categories: beady eyed, animal, anxiety, desire, fate,
Form: Blitz

Pure Filth

...When the woollen industry died,
the reservoir that fed the old mill,
became disused.
The water meadow at its head
became a swamp.
Developers,
who want to build houses everywhere,
take one look...
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Categories: beady eyed, environment, nature, pollution, water,
Form: Rhyme

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