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Best Cary Poems


Premium Member In the Dark of the Strand
...Marquees are bright with neon lights, where crowds line up for movie night
Holding hands, we're in 'The Strand'. The velvet carpet guides us in

Popcorn smokes, .. we're drinking cokes,...  and cr......

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Categories: cary, dark, film, history, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bakery and a Buttermilk Bar
...I'd almost forgotten, how fondly this little hamlet
snuggles tight against the purple hills, and how State street
divides the town into two parts, like a pizza, one half a progressive present,
......

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Categories: cary, nostalgia, teen, , western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Judy, Judy, Judy
...Judy, Judy, Judy... Judy Konos is the one I mean
Not the famous Cary Grant quote, he uttered on the screen
In “Only Angels Have Wings”
His famous quote still rings
But Judy Konos is the o......

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Categories: cary, tribute,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Inspire
...You've been so great
so loving and caring
always ready with your wits

I love it, I love you
But wait, don't say a word
Today I want to inspire you

When I'm down, or lost, or confused
There you are ......

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Categories: cary, friendship, people, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soothing Strangers
...SOOTHING STRANGERS

Two sweet old ladies serve to strangers - strays.
Carafe of wine and conversation soothes.
No need for pillows soft. They do not stay.
The old maids learned their craft in Su......

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Categories: cary, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Sinful Beauty Spare Me
...Beauty bleeds through skin
Infecting all which festers 
So deep within
The skeletons cary such secrets
To disgrace and shame Gorgeous
Saying it no longer forgets

We both know what's going on
......

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Categories: cary, angst, teen,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards
...The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.

In a robbery way out in Long Beach
E......

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cary, death, humorous, silly,
Form: Limerick
Sick Day
...Let’s just take the day off and maybe call in sick,
Just one day away from work I think will do the trick.

We could start by sleeping late then lay around in bed,
Sharing conversation or som......

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cary, funny, autumn, day,
Form: Light Verse
Still Swinging
...After chewing shoe leather they called steak, 
in the Pencey cafeteria, 
Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus, 
on the bus, and in a restaurant.
We walked across a puffy white ......

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Categories: cary, appreciation, brother, cancer, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
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 t......

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Categories: cary, depression, drink, england, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Classic Movies
...CLASSIC MOVIES

it is surprising
how fine black and white can be
one listens better

one notices more
each word clear as a bell
folks keep their clothes on

blood flow minimum
black and wh......

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Categories: cary, film,
Form: Senryu
I Can Do I Will
...While eating my morning bread,
A sudden impulse struck my head,
What if my mother doesn't get paid
No food; a voice from inside said
So simply that means you are dead….

What am I thinking; my ......

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© Arnov Sett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cary, anxiety, blessing, break up,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Who Am I What Am I
...WHO AM I WHAT AM I

Who am i, what am i, whats my place
Who is my GOD am i important
does being black mean am inferior...
am i any less a mortal..
does being black determine
whats between my e......

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Categories: cary, africa, , western,
Form: Narrative
The Death of Marriage
...It looked so right on paper to everyone; but when the night embraced her she was alone, still wanting to believe in love. 

Her footsteps echoed through her cathedral of a house which offered her r......

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© Steve Zak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cary, heartbreak, loneliness, loss, lost
Form: Narrative
Happy Birthday Daughter
...Happy birthday baby and my first born
Created by God for me to adorn
From the top of your head down to your tiny little toes
You were cute as a button as everyone knows
Seeing you all grown up, l......

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Categories: cary, daughtergod, self, god, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry