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Best Basements Poems

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Basements Basements
This is just for fun..=)




In the basement of my heart
there is a basement
and in that basement there are two basements. 

You open one
and enter the...

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Categories: basements, funny, love,
Form: Free verse



Bewitched Basements
Let me be the first 
 to have the audacity to translate, 
This piece of mystery molded 
       ...

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Categories: basements, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: basements, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reclusive Verses
Wanting to shrug off this shell, break loose from me
Silence that damn hermit, hiccuping under his tree
Trapped inside too long, dormancy dreams to wake 
Disgorging...

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Categories: basements, allusion, confusion, how i
Form: Rhyme
Duke Ellington Boulevard
i tried to notice without noticing.
i tried to fit in by not standing out,
but i knew i was different.
their walls much bigger.
their yards much nicer.

in...

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Categories: basements, forgiveness, hope, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member East Village Fugue
Some have passion and
Dreams in their hearts
That weave in and out
Beyond the edges
Of small places
Their dreams may be only words to some
But to them they...

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Categories: basements, lifeold, old, , Lullaby,
Form: Narrative
Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh...

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Categories: basements, anti bullying, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Welcome To Hungary
Your journey was long
Here you shall find respite
Come one and all
Have you enjoyed your trip?
We shall trip you here for sure
Holding babies you stumble and...

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Categories: basements, abuse, anger, racism, violence,
Form: Light Verse
Lost Souls
Lost souls deepen black holes…
Broken cries…muted forever lies back and forth on ya mind…
Tears of peroxide burns your polluted dilated eyes…
True hermit of life…no one...

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Categories: basements, people, song-urban,
Form: Lyric
Memoirs of Being a Child At Home
Submitted for contest:  A Child's Home
 adventure, candy, childhood, city, fear, first love, freedom,
Memoirs Of Being A Child At Home





Memoirs Of Being A Child...

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Categories: basements, adventure, candy, childhood, city,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Earth Day Voices
Voices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z, 
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z,
anyway, Type A conscious...

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Categories: basements, culture, earth, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Beatnik Snaps
Beatnik Snaps
       Onomatopoeia-topia

(poet sits on a stool in the café and begins)
I could onomatopoeia all day daddio
With cool sounds...

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Categories: basements, age, culture, drink, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member House Shopping
I am house shopping
with the required Buyer's Agent,
also a fairly tolerant friend of mine.

She likes to drive
although not gifted with any sense of direction,
until we...

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Categories: basements, culture, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Vacation
My muse went on vacation, to the tropics it did go.
I wish I could go with it, but my boss told me no.
I’m afraid it...

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Categories: basements, adventure, funny, imagination, me,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet - To Punk
Punk is not dead. It was never alive.
We stitched it together from mangled parts
with contents we poured from inconstant hearts
in our basements during bleak nights.
Finding...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basements, angst, appreciation, art, music,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things