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Best Metro Poems

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The Adventures of Jim the Trim- At the Metro
Jim the Trim’s been watching too much video
The kind that caused rise in his libido
Mind still on a femme fatale
Was brought to the hospital
His front...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Vanity Thy Name Is Metro-Man
Oh Vanity Thy Name is Metro-Man

At the gym,
admiring his bulging biceps in a giant mirror,
he reaches for his ever-ready smart phone
and stops to make a...

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Categories: metro, men, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaves of the Dead
Leaves of the Dead

Les feuilles mortes 



They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my...

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Categories: metro, french, imagery, music, paris,
Form: Lyric
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: metro, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Cloudless Skies
Looked out my window this morning
Damn.. another cloudy day
Falling further and further behind 
This life's become all work, no play
Where the Corporation is heaven
Our CEO...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Lyric



Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died For
You knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse
11:02 Pm
My life hasn’t always been easy...
                   ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, death, memory, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Piano Teacher
Piano Teacher

 Adored her timely teaching skills
Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed!
 even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me...

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Categories: metro, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form: Narrative
The Story of Joshua Bell
They don't speak
those walls
only absorb
scraps of life
the stench of urine
lucky pennies
desperate art
and a ringing clamber of voices
that move with every rush of air
down winding subway...

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Categories: metro, art, introspection, life, music,
Form: Free verse
The Spry Metropolis
Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metro, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
An Incomplete Search
I went searching for-
that little child who cuddled in her mother's arms, 
those tender feet that jumped in rain, 
that little heart which melted for...

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Categories: metro, absence, death, fate, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Flash Flood Warning
aka
Terry's Rush Hour Tube Trauma

A voice rose from a burning bush,
"O feel the contours of my tush!
Ounce for ounce
Cheeks will bounce
With just an itty-bitty push!"...

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Categories: metro, humor,
Form: Limerick
Passion For Fashion
PASSION FOR FASHION

We live
We continue to pretend
We copy
Because that’s in fashion

Painted Face
Leaving no trace
Fiftyish women,
Pretending to be
Forever Thirty,
Obsessed by age
Not finding grace

Men from Metro-sexual
To Retro-sexual
Proving...

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Categories: metro, fashion, funny, humorous, truth,
Form: Free verse
Government Sales Tax Gst
Government Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly  introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has...

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Categories: metro, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs