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Best Parting Shot Poems

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A Parting Shot
A parting shot

	  Baristas bang to level the grounds
	  Constant caffeinated sounds
	  Murmured speak of 'where to next'?
	  Lonely figures sit...

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Categories: parting shot, today,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Stand In a Field and Scream
When you are confused, anxious, in pain, your stomach in a granny knot.
Near the end, nowhere to go, no friends, no family that understands.
"Stand in...

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Categories: parting shot, anxiety, betrayal, depression, lost
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member First Date
I was around fourteen when the charms of girls began to beckon,
And I was about fifteen when I had my first date, I would reckon.
'Way...

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Categories: parting shot, humorous, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
The Fart Poem
THE FART POEM

A rose is a rose
By any other name.
A fart is a fart,
It smells the same.

A puff of air
From a dainty derriere,
A blast of...

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Categories: parting shot, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Computer Malfunction
This bewildering computer of mine just gives me fits!
I panic when the consarned thing goes on the fritz!
I peruse the baffling manual but that doesn't...

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Categories: parting shot, computer-internetcomputer, me,
Form: Rhyme



Elucidation
fill the void, oh! hotshot 
knuckle down to call in question
like elucidation of parting shot
triviality over inflection


05/08/16...

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Categories: parting shot, analogy, longing, voice,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Cracked the Cream Cheese Through Your Whine
I Cracked The Cream Cheese Through Your Whine

Wining And Dining    we savoured together and we still share five beautiful children sweet 
...

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Categories: parting shot, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Delia In British Open 2015
In the Disney cartoon movie called Mulan...
Was a poignant scene if ever there was one...
There were wise loving words spoken from the heart...
From a father...

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Categories: parting shot, appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Little Sister Blues
the younger sister means always the last to get
they say its middle child syndrome but I'm the youngest yet
the baby of the family treated like...

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Categories: parting shot, childhood, daughter, depression, family,
Form: Rhyme
Betryayed
i'd just been declared surplus to requirements by my boss
with bloodshot eyes i plodded home completely at a loss
oblivious of my ex-secretary's commiserations
mum's late stage...

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Categories: parting shot, depression, cancer, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Karen On the Beach
I took my dog for a walk on the beach.
Ran into Karen and she started to preach.
Plastic bags times three; filled with doggie debris.
People polluting...

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Categories: parting shot, beach, dog, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Tallow Tree
One of your relatives sprouted behind my house
Cut it down twice...fat chance
Ended up damaging my half paid for home
I wanted revenge, so I resorted to...

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Categories: parting shot, nature, tree,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member First Date
I was 'round fourteen when the charms of girls began to beckon,
And was about fifteen when I had my first date, I'd reckon.
Way back then...

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Categories: parting shot, funny, teen, me,
Form: Rhyme
Titans of Powder Ink
O Ye
Titans of powder keg Ignatius ink
I speak to Thee
When flight and night
Draw
The thaw of bedded grass
Under village green sunlight flowers
I seek my charge
As fond...

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Categories: parting shot, absence, slam,
Form: Free verse
Subject: Bus Stop Crazies Today At 3:37 Pm
Subject: BUS STOP CRAZIES   Today at 3:37 pm      

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BUS STOP CRAZIES 
BUS STOP CRAZIES 

Glitter My Words...

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Categories: parting shot, people, social, sympathy, urban,
Form: Free verse

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