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Best Off The Streets Poems

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Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: off the streets, travel,
Form: Haibun



Good Gang Versus Bad
theres two types of gangs to join 
you dont have to flip a coin 
to know which one that you need 
once gets you in...

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Categories: off the streets, for teens, life, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Greatly
I glanced at him on his knees 
donning tears and a robe
wiping bullet and blood off the streets.

He slowly made his way toward 
the broken...

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Categories: off the streets, creation,
Form: Free verse
Big City Life I See You
Looking out onto to the glare off the streets, it almost appears as if the asphalt were a 

sheet of glass, as the rain pours...

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Categories: off the streets, life, people, social, urban,
Form: Lay
Premium Member On Halloween - Monotetra
On Halloween the children play,
Dressed in fun costumes they sashay,
Through neighborhoods at dusk of day,
They make their way, they make their way.

Pirates and faeries, witches...

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Categories: off the streets, children, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme



The Flicker Fusion Threshold
If I were to swagger off the streets
Some gangster as I perched the skulduggery 
Of my litany in glitter and smoke
An ageless vandalism to linger...

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Categories: off the streets, time, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Black Cat
Did you know,                      ...

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Categories: off the streets, fun, love, pets, sleep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Haiku
branch        burdened with snow

           long winter

  ...

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Categories: off the streets, nature
Form: Haiku
To the Leaders
As a Politician 
to get re-elected 
you want the world to love you
as a dictator

ruling your people 
you want your country at peace
you can attempt...

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Categories: off the streets, political, presidents day, proposal,
Form: Narrative
Daddy, Where Do Unicorns Come From
Well son...

It all began in Fairyland
In the lab of the mystical toads
As trash throughout the land had gotten way out of hand
Along side of the...

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Categories: off the streets, fairy, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Let Us Be Free
The music is my destiny it 
brings out the best in me 
when I'm in the booth its 
like I can feel everything 
my senses...

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Categories: off the streets, africa
Form: I do not know?
Be Thankful
Be thankful for the planet we live on.
Be thankful for the families we have.
Be thankful for the countries we live in.
Be thankful for the money...

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Categories: off the streets, inspirational, life, religion, thank
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Victorian Poverty In London
Victorian Poverty In London.
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Slumming it in adverse poverty
In Victorian London’s  
Limehouse White Chapel and Bethnal Green 
Dingy doss houses packed to the brim
Narrow dirty...

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Categories: off the streets, community, conflict, poverty,
Form: I do not know?
Change
I've heard it said
that you can't change 
who you are
a leopard can't 
change it's spots

but to me that feels wrong
we are constantly changing
once scared to...

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Categories: off the streets, change, character,
Form: Narrative
A Stand For All
A STAND FOR ALL
Here we are living in this unknown world. Whatever happened to the land of freedom? Discrimination, harassment, policing and outrages crimes, carrying...

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Categories: off the streets, america, inspirational, drug,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs