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Best Dressed To Kill Poems

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As My Pen Danced
I waited, dressed to kill
in red,
and in love

both, of which 
I could have been coaxed out of

You have turned a pale shade of white,
my Valentine

Al...

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Categories: dressed to kill, lost love, love
Form: Free verse



War Siren
WAR SIREN

On the battlefield, the ruby blood, 
is caked to warm dusty brown to dry.
Bedraggled women calls the living, 
she, with pleasure, makes a soldier...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dressed to kill, corruption, irony, passion, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Night Cap****adult****
Aching for my presence
she called me late one night.
She wanted to have 
a night cap,
and she knows I do it right.

Forty five minutes later,
on the...

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Categories: dressed to kill, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Velvet
Impoverished, destitute no money to spare
This woman with green eyes and cascading hair 
On a mission to find something to wear
Impress she must as though...

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Categories: dressed to kill, beautiful, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shot In the Dark
dreamt to relieve myself
of fearful thoughts, patriotic
plots. dressed to kill in Washington
skirt, no pants of a farmer
wielding a British brown bess
blessed with happiness before
the frightening...

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Categories: dressed to kill, america, angst,
Form: Free verse



A Modest Proposal: Sestina
I just want five minutes, just to pitch
My killer screenplay for a killer film.
The hunt for a serial killer
By glamorous profilers, nothing grubby
Or exploitive. Some...

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Categories: dressed to kill, film, humor, satire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member When Charlie Grew Up
Way back in the nineteen fifties
When Charlie grew out of his toys,
He fancied having an active life
So he joined the Teddy Boys.

He wore drainpipe jeans,...

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Categories: dressed to kill, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member First Date
FIRST DATE

oh wow!
she’s prettier than i thought
dressed to kill
i suddenly look like a tramp
smell like one too

not sure
whether or not to hold hands
neither is she
but...

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Categories: dressed to kill, romance,
Form: Tanka
Eye of the Beholder
The world is filled with babies
And the parents who adore ‘em,
Though unrelated bystanders
Most often will ignore ‘em.
 
For many aren’t near as cute
As relatives believe.
The...

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Categories: dressed to kill, granddaughter, grandson, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Love Sexy Chronicles Vol 1
THE COFFEE SHOP

BY EZAR AND STEPHANIE

The Coffee Shop (Male)
It was a warm summer afternoon; As the sun covered the sidewalk like they were bride and...

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Categories: dressed to kill, anxiety, black african american,
Form: Lyric
Just Souls
JUST SOULS

I use to walk down the Cafe Street.
The place of my reminiscence is in the South.
The jooking was heard throughout this section of town.
Leland,...

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Categories: dressed to kill, deep, happiness, jealousy, joy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Distressed
Distressed by Rob Barratt

My furniture is all distressed
It's unusually unstable
The oak bookcase is quite depressed
As is the coffee table

The worktop has a thin veneer
It seethes...

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Categories: dressed to kill, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Blue Skies
"50 Words for Poe: Blue Skies"



She was dressed to kill
Hot like a blazing Australian Bushfire
She crackled with heat as she
sashayed through the entrance
like Summer towards...

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Categories: dressed to kill, adventure, freedom, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse
He Was a Serial Lover
He was a serial lover.
Like no other.  
His words flowed like smooth swoon song.
Led you away, took you along.
Feelings spun, you lost control.
Dressed to...

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Categories: dressed to kill, adventure, funny, humor, lust,
Form: Light Verse
Royal Rumble
Characters in action
Talents in multiplication
Shapes and sizes of many version
Skills on display with tension

Over the top ropes one would gape
Under the ropes one can escape
Apron...

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Categories: dressed to kill, character, color, creation, men,
Form: Other

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