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Best Dingy Poems

Below are the all-time best Dingy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dingy poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: dingy, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dingy, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
A Lullabyto the Lost
Life and cigarettes burn to fast.
We waste are time.
So within the moment you bask.

A pretty face has to age.
Every story meets  it's final page.
When...

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Categories: dingy, angst, life, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Long Is Forever
The vision calls me once again against this restless night
in brilliant strata gems, in timeless dreams of light.
I close my ancient eyes, and there, so...

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Categories: dingy, age, love, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: dingy, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Colors of Happy
The Colours of Happy

I am the painter of happy
Traveling along life's dark streets
listening for the beat
Feeling hidden colors with my feet

I see the beauty 
beyond...

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Categories: dingy, adventure, beautiful, blue, celebration,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
..............I could write you 
...................poetic images
...............that would make 
............other women drool.
...............Speak of sunsets 
...........wired, computerized 
....................................to 
.....................................P
...................................PU
..............................PULSE
............ ...to the rhythm of
.........your striking features
B............Build you a ladder 
.............from light, that we
..............could climb...

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Categories: dingy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaking the Surface
A millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply 
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .  
something from...

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Categories: dingy, allegory, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: dingy, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Kiss My Cloud
So you say you want to sit on MY cloud.
The view, you say, is rainbows and bluebirds.
I understand you hate your polyester,
Dishwasher safe, blue light...

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Categories: dingy, anger, conflict, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
I'Ll Cry Tomorrow
Sitting dying alone,
In this dark and dingy place 
It has now become my home..
The only open bar 
In town, I needed something to heal my...

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Categories: dingy, addiction, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: dingy, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Madrid: Circa 1974
In mid-June's heat, we wait inside the bus, 
and everyone has said their last goodbyes.  
The Moorish boy I’ve come to know is sad.
...

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Categories: dingy, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Blank verse
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here
I was just sitting there writing when I saw her stroll in,  
I wasn’t alone, all eyes followed those curves sashaying 
as if she...

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Categories: dingy, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
Writtings From the Bathroom Wall
I read it  from the bathroom wall.
God alone save's us one and all.
Along with other mixed obscenities like 
for a good time call.

Some read...

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Categories: dingy, funny, people, philosophy, social
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs