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Best Backstreets Poems

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Premium Member In the Backstreets of My Mind
I have a worry that concerns me, for

it is related to my health, and

as it is always with me, thus,

it has darkened the backstreets 

of...

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Categories: backstreets, how i feel,
Form: Etheree



Backstreets
As I travel down 
The roads of my life
I love the easy roads
Brightly lit
And easy to roll down

As I pass the exits
Of the backstreets of...

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Categories: backstreets, life,
Form: Free verse
Backstreets and Galaxies
I will tell you of the backstreets
In a brain that has grown old
A mind that has wandered often
When it was young and bold

Old brains should...

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Categories: backstreets, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backstreets of Paris - Monsieur L'Vampyre
BACKSTREETS OF PARIS -  MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE
One spring and sunny day I set my sight
behind my darkened lenses, feigning night,
so I might stroll in my...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, beauty, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: backstreets, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gumball Rally
We entered the Gumball Rally
My driver was “Backstreets” Tally
With his crazy fast car
We still couldn’t get far
Bad math, no gas, in Death Valley
...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, adventure, car, crazy, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member - Black Veil -
No one can see my eyes
they a covered with dark sunglasses
Dark as my soul and my thoughts

When life goes in grim backstreets
it's reflected by a...

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Categories: backstreets, angst, dark, fear,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Aura of Her Magnificence
When my heart could no longer illuminate,
I gazed towards horizons shrouded in blurry blackness,
revealing the agony of my sorrows to the moon.

Wondering if it would...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, love, poetry, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Words
Soft, sweet words lay dormant
Awaiting that special moment
When I can pull them out of their closet
Press them with the heated iron
And lie them in a...

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Categories: backstreets, fantasy, imagination, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ladies of Tahrir Square
LADIES OF TAHRIR SQUARE
She spread through our minds
In the chaos of Cairo backstreets.
And on this day
Oh how we loved that girl.
and we stopped our red...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, anger, beauty, betrayal, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer of Golders Green
I awake each morning
With fresh hope
And tranquility;
I might go for a saunter
Down quiet London backstreets...
Soon my aimlessness
Depresses me,
And I realise
I'd been deceiving myself
As to my...

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Categories: backstreets, depression, drink, england, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Steely-Eyed Bunny Wabbits
steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she...

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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Westernizing Muhamad Al-Abassi
Westernizing Muhamad al-Abassi
She spread through our minds
In the chaos of Cairo backstreets.
And on this day
Oh how we loved that girl.
and we stopped our red Vespas...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, allah, arabic, conflict, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Drunken Pen
I am a drunken pen, or at least thats what they call me in the betting shop at 4.55pm on a Saturday afternoon. Kept deep...

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Categories: backstreets, funny, imagination, me, day,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Stone - Mademoiselle L'Vampyre
STONE - MADEMOISELLE L'VAMPYRE
From out of all the darkest nights we've ever known
her heart as black as all the sins that man has shown
she came...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backstreets, abuse, addiction, beautiful, horror,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs