Best Tighten Up Poems

STOP RIGHT THERE!!!						
NOT SO FAST….							
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that Sonnet
	Tidy up those rhymes
		Feel the drumbeat of that meter
				…the juxtaposed delight
					….of sitting back and knowing
						     …..you...

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Tom sat fer-nent the table within a smoker's chair
A table pot of pra-tes and bacon quivers there 
The cook an apron dirty wipes the grease and clears her throat 
She cooks her husband dinner the children's and the goat's

He smokes his pipe asunder and prods...

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(Continued from Part 1)


Transparent figures walk at a flirtatious pace
On world-class runways, with no expression on their face
Parading styles you can't afford in your possession
They are the ghostly models of the latest, greatest FASHION.

A millisecond blink, a click, some weird noise,
A virtual reality for all...

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The legal system is business operated by officers and boys in the street
The legal system is a business  fashioned to target the vulnerable and the weak
The people who cannot defend themselves or don't have a voice of their own
are  ambushed abused, humiliated and...

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I carry around a Phillips head
To tighten up any loose screws
An empty bag I keep in my hand
To collect all the marbles I lose

The elevator that I am riding in
Doesn't stop at all the floors
Happy with insanity
Who out there could ask for more

The toys that...

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I live in this cell with my self-hatred
How I was raised makes me feel so isolated 
These are not my thoughts or feelings for that matter
But I still feel as if I’m an ugly house that will never flatter

Even if you were to fix me
I’d...

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Listen up, you tin soldiers,
it’s time to grow some heavy metal skin
In this battle of the sexes,
the enemy is winning the war ... 
And that burns my masculine soul to no end
Team testosterone is in retreat,
therefore, I implore my band of brothers
The prospect of imminent...

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The Ice Frozen Box, I Like To Call My Heart
8/04/10
By: Sami LaRose


In times of evaporation, the heart fades away
Looking for a newer and brighter day.
He strolls alongside Park Avenue
Then he see’s something he would never expect.
A big bullet right through his cheats!
He falls to the...

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In a world that’s changing quickly for the likes of you and me,
we can hardly keep up with the pace that passes endlessly.
I’m not talking ‘bout technology, computers seem to give,
I’m talking ‘bout society and that means the way we live.

I’m no example; I’ve had...

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Somebody came up with this great, fancy idea,
which in time turned into an unstoppable mania;
I was called prince...I had some blue blood in me,
but not living in a castle and considered true royalty!
I profoundly thought to myself, " Can't I  live
in that magical world...

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As life becomes harder and harder to make ends meet in these troubled days,
Harder to stretch what little we have, and so unsure of tomorrow like being stuck in a maze.

As we tighten up our belt hoping this is just a passing phase,
And clinging to...

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Shivers on the damp leaves
as cars are speeding by
reflect not in the windows
l try to work out why.

I'm walking in the wet rain
uncertain that you care
Autumns pain is dragging
and snow is in the air.

I'm staring through a window
the truth is getting near
I'm sitting on a...

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I can feel the moisture progressing on the top of my forehead
Little light creases start to form here on my chin 
I'm looking at you and I can see that you are lovely
Beyond your red rose colored eraser, and your tented yellow streaks
Lies a handsome...

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the rig sails on
the captain at the wheel
steel billowed crosswinds
and Willie's gruff twang

come back...maybe not flip-flop 
rigs riggin' is sailin', movin'
waving goodbye to yesterday
I'm a stowaway into today

ahead is clear horizon
aft is crewed distant past
the ropes taut, creaking
and diseal's low rumble below

port is where we're...

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How dim and doomed my mind is 
When I try to explain my disorder to own self and others,
Just as much as I hope to tighten up the loose balls
And invite the dead into my home, I can’t.
I can’t do anything much except what I...

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