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Best Lean And Mean Poems

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Premium Member Back To Lean and Mean
Getting back into the swing of it
After a break from my daily routine
Time to get serious once again
On my way back to lean and mean

No...

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Categories: lean and mean, happiness, health,
Form: Quatrain



Lean and Mean
Starving and unable to resist or restrain herself
The executive’s right hand 
Reaches deep
It paws through the steel garbage can
Swoops up a hefty chunk of the...

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Categories: lean and mean, crazy, food, work,
Form: Free verse
Pray For Hope Every Day
Continue to try harder and never cry
Despite temporary setbacks
That in your way present a face wry
Challenges aplenty in irritating stacks

Never let up
Despite sorrow and lack...

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Categories: lean and mean, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paratrooper's Gracious Descent—mother Earth Below
It was the day I wanted the most
Yet dreaded as the worst,
Seeing the jumpmaster’s eyes
Way up there in the sky,
Waiting for the scream
“This is a...

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Categories: lean and mean, adventure, dedication, faith, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lottery Dreaming
Spin that golden ball, let those lucky numbers to fall my way, 
Scratch me a shiny ticket for easy cash living, I’m in it to...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lean and mean, adventure, celebration, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Land Part 6
The birds of pray are on their way, in every beak the Word

(of ptomaine tomes by gnarly gnomes) whose meaning is obscured;

they roost aloof on...

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Categories: lean and mean, drug, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the Saloon
The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon


That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean...

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Categories: lean and mean, art, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Burnt
Sandra was ready to PLAY
but she told me to go far AWAY
A beauty school QUEEN
would be embarrassed to be SEEN

"You're just not my type,Rodger...if ya...

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Categories: lean and mean, angst, funny, life, me,
Form: Limerick
Lean Times
Lean Times
When times are lean and mean I have to conserve
I rely on pocket change in reserve
Like pennies, dimes and quarters
Times like these I might...

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Categories: lean and mean, food, funny, health, life,
Form: Limerick
Smelly Smut
Smelly Smut, you casanova cat
Ladies swoon and mew to have your pat
Sleek and lean, really mean
Ladies want to be seen
Walking with the tough tom cat,...

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Categories: lean and mean, animals
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Adios Macho Image
ADIOS MACHO IMAGE

It used to be-
How many times I’ve said those four words –
To put it bluntly    a real man was hairy
If...

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Categories: lean and mean, funnyold, old, , western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Grain of Sand
From the first time that I saw you
When few were in your corner
I watched you from a distance
And I saw you, play a stormer
There was...

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Categories: lean and mean, death, father son,
Form: Rhyme
The Mighty Master Macho Man Tom...And the Lil' Mouse
I'm lean, I'm mean, I'm tough as nails
Nothing could frighten me
I'm ready to defend my turf
as you can plainly see
Ju-Jitsu man, master of knife and...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lean and mean, adventure, animals, funny, life,
Form: Burlesque
A Story Old and Worn!
Marauders and loot traders
got together
and did that
she was left with nothing
she had just that
and nothing more
and she rued why not more
stowed away for living sure
she...

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Categories: lean and mean, lifeold, old,
Form: Free verse
Thunder Booms
As the Soldier stands ready to fight,
The thunderstorm rolls in with its might.
Turning the day into night.

As the wind sweeps the sand like a broom,
Off...

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Categories: lean and mean, adventure, friendship, history, hope,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs