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Best Parlours Poems

Below are the all-time best Parlours poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of parlours poems written by PoetrySoup members


Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: parlours, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Seaside
The see-saw backsides of obesity traverse across the promenade
  Led by bustling torpedo breasts thrusting through the hustling throng;
Past tarnished chromium espresso bars, burger...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parlours, parody, people, places, sea,
Form: Verse
I Remember You Happiness
I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
  of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the corner coffee shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent 
from the...

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Categories: parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Penny Arcade
The Penny Arcade
 
Back in the 1920's, Americans would go to entertainment
spots around big cities like New York and Chicago, were
you could go to have...

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Categories: parlours, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Drinking With the Devil
In a dreary cold township with life all but gone,
The raped rain-slick streets drag on and drag on,
Wet newspaper pages flap into the road,
All the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parlours, allegory, imagination, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



To Serve Is To Be Served
To serve you took an 
oath;
To lead in patriotism
And to shun nepotism.
To hold in esteem the 
nation
And give back with 
integrity its ration.

Like a leader...

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Categories: parlours, political, men, integrity,
Form: Verse
Rainbow Crayons and White Pages
The children were asked to paint

What they remember of summerbreak

In other parts of the world

They would have painted beaches, bicycles

And smiling stickmen in front of...

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Categories: parlours, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
I Remember You Happiness
I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
  of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the coffee corner shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent 
from the...

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Categories: parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Why I Weep
As the Bus with a sight, rumbled along,
Its weary cargo slumped, for the journey was long.
Babies in agony clung to wretched mothers
Oblivious they are without...

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Categories: parlours, betrayal, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Pilgrimage
Every six turns of the moon
A journey to the girl I take.
I leave behind my safe cocoon
Into the noise and into the fake.

The pungent smell...

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Categories: parlours, dream, happiness, loneliness, mental
Form: Rhyme
A Day In Arcadia
You leave the car at what was once, 
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows 
but parking motorists...

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Categories: parlours, beach, beautiful,
Form: Verse
Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone 
In the nearest town and close to all amenities 
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife 
and went to look at...

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Categories: parlours, age, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Bio
The View of Anthony Hepplethwaite 2013
With a little tightening round the waist 
the skinny day comes out to taste the 
fatness of the light
I am in sight of something great...

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Categories: parlours, death, loss, political,
Form: Rhyme
Pains of Wasted Years
Yesterday,
She was a beauty Queen,
Flying and walking on the smooth roads,
On the streets and restaurants,
Beer parlours and churches,
Like an angel from Venus,
The
Handsome,
Rich
And
Self actualized
Wished
To make her...

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Categories: parlours, pain,
Form: Free verse
Time To Introspect
What are we doing?what is our goal in life?
To look most appealing in front of all? 
Be the topper in all? Have most money and...

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Categories: parlours, absence, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs