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Best Gravy Train Poems

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A Gravy Train
Mister Ride rode a gravy train
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Categories: gravy train, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

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Categories: gravy train, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Little Boy
Little boy with a toy gun
Dreams of all that might be fun
To be fully clad in combat gear
And go into battle with no fear
A hero...

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Categories: gravy train, betrayal, corruption, hero, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weary Traveler
I was a musketeer
Fighting to save a dying land
Soldier with a heart
Hate never disappeared
As greed and waste were in command
Tearing it apart
Armed with a sword...

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Categories: gravy train, care, character, conflict,
Form: Lyric
So Called New Friends Hangers On and What Happens Afterwards
Sorry ,
My friend and confident of days old

Do not fret
Regret is wasted until the cost is met

I still hold you in high regard 
I still...

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Categories: gravy train, celebrity,
Form: Free verse



Biltong and Bread
Konkas draw a blanket over the flats,
but our state live like over fed fat cats
Zuma had another great opinion,
now we must dream of a Rand...

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© Just James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravy train, conflict, irony, social,
Form: Sonnet
Flea Market
Spent today at a Flea Market with she,
All for nothing, nothing for free,
Bought some clothes for she,
A potplant for me, no weed,
Food and books ...

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Categories: gravy train, books, friendship, fun, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Well
I'm living in my golden years
And riding on the gravy train.
I am one of the lucky ones
Who lived the sweet life to attain.

The first two...

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Categories: gravy train, happiness, health, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day

      ~ pretty weird that it is necessary to have one day allocated during the year to give 
thanks...

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Categories: gravy train, environment,
Form: Free verse
My Friends and I



A friendship gathering
in the land of Goshen ...

My friend, Flip J says transcendently,
that publican people are only telling you
half the truth every single usury time,
with...

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Categories: gravy train, friendship, social, truth,
Form: Bio
Working Class Hero
The working Class Hero

From town to town, all across this great land,
You can see the work of a laboring hand.
Not many know their name,
But in...

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Categories: gravy train, workwork, class, class, work,
Form: I do not know?
Alexandria Ortasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

There’s a new kid in town in DC
With an old and tired philosophy
To make everything free’s what she says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

With a theory...

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Categories: gravy train, political,
Form: Rhyme
Thinking of Someone New
I stepped down
left this old town.
Still thinking of you
and the days of new.

Now I'm in Georgia
thinking of someone new
thinking of someone new.

Forgotten promises
broken fish bowls
and...

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Categories: gravy train, adventure, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Black Day Overturned
A slight chill surrounding your ghostly smile,
Black sumptuous full pout,
Dark poignant fixated pupils,
Scanning the perimeter to which you stand.


Poised and uncertain,
Frozen like icicles,
Racing thought's,
My life's...

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Categories: gravy train, confusion, november,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Town Hall
Deep concern across the land, respect is all but gone
protesters attack, harass, all night until the dawn
Looking closely, feeling pain, no such thing as fair
doesn't...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravy train, america, bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs