Best Cleanup Poems


Premium Member Intricacy of Light
...My inner voice calm, looks for compassion.
   To give encouragement, it comes from within.
I look for honesty as my eyes turn inside-out.
   Always searching to......

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Categories: cleanup, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Storm of Trees
...STORM OF TREES

trees
sidewind
smashing glass
ripping up roofs
like a doll house, bedroom contents exposed
miles of splintered lumber, stacked against odds
squirrels naked
scatte......

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Categories: cleanup, storm,
Form: Tetractys
hypothermia of mussels, or untitled
...
Footprints walking our snowy, sandy place
The silence, oh, how she makes it nimbus —
The waves unchanged after falling snow crown,
Someone else in you and I; remember — ?

   I look for the he......

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cleanup, angst, judgement, love, ocean,
Form: Lento

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Artie Chokes Three For a Dollar
...Complaining of his marriage for thirty-odd years
He highballed his eyeballs, comforting his tears
The barkeep asked, what's troubling you son?
He poured out his life; I'm finished! I'm done!
The ......

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Categories: cleanup, funny,
Form:
Premium Member - Pop Music Icon John Lennon -
...GIVE ME SOME TRUTH
John, was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool
He met Paul McCartney in 1957 
John and Paul formed a close working relationship ... COME TOGETHER
Young and fearless guys with mus......

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Categories: cleanup, humor, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Fresh Meat
...

Pardon my condor sensitivity,
	but can I be 
dead serious candid with you
Everybody look down on me,
and talk mean about me
But, in the future, they’re gonna need me 
even nuclear mo......

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Categories: cleanup, animal, death, humor, word
Form: Personification


Casey On Second
...(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author of "Casey at the Bat".)

The Mudville nine and Casey have their chance for sweet revenge;
They play today in Dirtburg, their misfortune t......

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cleanup, baseball, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Paper Or Plastic, Sir
...Standing in line at Wally-world I suffered through this exchange of views.
The cashier asked the man in front of me, "Which of these will you choose?
Paper or plastic for you, sir?" and with a snar......

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Categories: cleanup, funny, rain, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 14, Part 3 of 3
...11. They came to devour and sin.
I was briefed by a cornucopia of beings:
From Torchwood, ARGUS, SHIELD and their kin;
The Talamasca, The Shop and MiB Greens;
A BPRD agent who was burning in Hell......

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cleanup, evil, fantasy, fear, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Megastorm In Memory of Hurricane Sandy
...A mighty force lurks out of sight
Far out o'er the sea
About to bring a monstrous fight
Like none we've ever seen

The time winds by and on the air
The wind is first to show
It starts out as a breeze......

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Categories: cleanup, natural disasters, tribute, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Cats Called Carl
...Cats called Carl, eat 'Captain Crunch' for cereal.
Cats called Carl, have cunning plans to collect Crystals.
They take taxis to the park.
Then they come home to find their mom tearing through the ......

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Categories: cleanup, cat, fun, , cute,
Form: Alliteration
Love Biscuits
...Walking the yard with shovel in hand
Cruising back and forth just as planned
Trying to pick up every last pile
If the wife steps in one she gets hostile

Didn't think this through from the start......

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Categories: cleanup, humor,
Form:
Premium Member A Robot Assassin Named 'Green' - Part 1
...“Let me introduce myself
I am simple, I am ‘Green’
The planet’s very first, 
Non-localized and multi-form, 
Unstoppable assassin, 
I'm friendly to environment, 
Discriminating too, 
A truly no......

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Categories: cleanup, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Read Between My Lines the Love Interview
...I wish to thank you for applying.
I must say that dress is a great way to start,
I am a very visual person and it pleases me.
May I ask why did you choose that particular dress?




Ha ha, I ......

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Categories: cleanup, faith, heart, love,
Form:
Premium Member Mr L B Owen's Grocery Store
...Small town grocery stores nowadays are very rare indeed,
But in simpler times they supplied a family's every need.
As a Hoosier lad, I worked in Mr L B Owen's Grocery Store,
In charge of absolutel......

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Categories: cleanup, funny, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme
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