Best Private Eye Poems

You hate your job,
but you're good at what you do

A paid shadow
who follows the trail of indiscretions
that other people lead you to

You're a gumshoe,
sticking to...

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I’m  Packing and She’s Packing 

I’m a film noir private eye and I’ve got my eye on this voluptuous dame. I’m investigating the murder...

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Through his door she wafts, all eye candy and cigarette smoke. Feigning fear and need with a promise of earthly delights in trade. He, standing...

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Pulp fiction had nothing on him. He was a man’s man. A protagonist
of his own making, self-reliant, and self-assured.  Marlow kept his wisecracks
to the...

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I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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It’s been ten days, the Easter Bunny is gone with hardly a trace,
The Missus is inconsolable- an Easter basket-case,
Evidence in plastic bags, some fibers and...

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 mixed verse 


The Pied Piper was our town's private eye. 
He rode alone on his piebald horse,
kept his nose in everyone’s pie
declaring humble pie...

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Distressed I awake to an empty bed
Your form is imprinted on duvet sheet
Still silhouetted and cold to my feet
Urgent abandonment as clothes were shed
Oh, why...

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While I was walking through a meadow, of blooms and sunshine,
I stopped to spread my blanket, for a gay picnic at lunchtime.

It was very pleasant,...

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under the moon and murky alleyways
i roam with rats the mean and rain-slicked streets
a private eye, taking whatever pays
i search for her, whose husbands bloody...

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As a historian I was focused, on the long record of writing,
Considered an expert in the field, I found it most exciting.

For countless delights have...

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"You here?"

"Will...?"

"Never on time....man" "He's going to 

win this case just because of these pictures"...He begins to look through the photos.

The private eye cracks a...

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Charlotte Wentworth married far too young,
to a man quite rich with old money.
It had seemed such a dream on the big day,
a year later it...

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If infinity has no end, then where did it all begin?
Opinions were given by...
Theories pondered and the proof has been under Investigation by...
The private eye...

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AN IMAGE

Traveling by day and by night
The shadow of a promise made
Daring not to move within sight
Behind and ahead of me, all the 
same...

Poetry man...

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