Best Wrong Side Of The Tracks Poems
A Ride In Dylan's VoiceWoke up this morning
on the wrong side of the tracks.
Left out leaving for all the right reasons
and all the wrong facts.
Caught a ride with a traveling preacher
in a beat up van.
Said he was on his way to heaven,
but he had to...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, journey, religion,
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K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow JonesesKEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES
These here are the indisputable facts
I was born on the right side of the tracks
WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased
If not they wouldn’t have minded becoming deceased
They had big cars, big bucks and big...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, allegory, dedication, nostalgia, parody,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, appreciation, community, devotion, discrimination,
Form:
Limerick
Growing Up, La - Part 1- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - -
My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)
As such he seldom raised his head,
Displayed humility.
The center of the ‘Dust Bowl' years,
Just thirty miles from home.
And children, seniors...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Find Our WayHave we fallen through the cracks
coming from the wrong side of the tracks
Rather living somewhere inside the divide
for no physical locality do we reside
If you could cup my passionate spirit inside your hand
Perhaps my ambitious tenacity you'd understand
And with that same hand write our fate...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, hopesong, song,
Form:
Free verse
A Petrified ConjunctionA petrified conjunction(?)
what a strange day...
for a martyr of missing time
born in the urn grove
among the burning embers
born on the wrong side of the tracks
what a strange day...
for an unknown hero
living in his restless chamber
his head like an ice-breaker
his uniform of ivory tears
what a...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, nonsense, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Do We Choose Whom We Love and Ignore Those We Don'TWhy Do We “Choose” Whom We Love… And Ignore Others?
Why do we often “choose” those we love…
And ignore those we don’t?
It’s a good thing that Christ doesn’t do this! He won’t!
Far too often,… People attending church today…
Will many times “choose” whom...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, brother, confusion, daughter, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
A Stones Throw From Hella stones throw from hell
around the corner from jail
big city of dreams
and small schemes for mail
we touch and go in the 'hood
and it don't look good
young brotha at the park
the little engine that could
the wrong side of the tracks
ya little puffs of smoke
aint from the...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, black african american, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Again the Wind BlowsAgainst a rafter,
the forlorn curtain sways reversed -
the wrong side of the tracks;
awoken in a death-dream state
and it sighs. A sigh so shallow, so depressing
that the window with the eye impressions groans
and creaks open to the winter air of summer,
then forgets why it opened
and...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, depression, lost love, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The TracksLife wasn’t that pretty
When she was a little girl
The wrong side of the tracks
In this hard hearted world
But when she grew older
The men gave her the stare
A very curvy figure
And Monroe blonde hair
Working at the café
Till...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of the Christmas BikeThe saddest story I’ve ever read, I read on Christmas day.
About a man who’s hurt, would not go away.
He was from the wrong side of the tracks but that didn’t make him any less a man,
He had a wife and a little girl and he...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, daughter, death, father, holiday,
Form:
Verse
Nothing That I MissI grew up on the right side
Of the wrong side of the tracks
I hit the ground running
With no thought of looking back
First I ran from...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, inspirational, life, love, on
Form:
Rhyme
Memory LaneI walk down memory lane.
It was just as I had left it.
Garbage here and there.
The smell of alchol,
Mixed with the ever slighest bit of rotten garbage.
It was utterly disgusting.
But this is where I had grown up,
On the wrong...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, childhood, depression, nature, sad,
Form:
Blank verse
Grease Monkey RingsIt took him two trips to set it all up.
He kept it simple just the way
he thought she'd like it..
A basket of fruit and ritz crackers
ham and cheese sandwiches,,,
and her favorite
a giant wedge of orange chocolate..
He did splurge a bit
on the bottle of...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, relationship, roses are red,
Form:
Free verse
8 Miles Rapp 99 Dalmatian Problems To Battle SpitI've got 99 Dalmatians
99 problems
But a b###h ain't 1
Are simply Black or White
99 shade's of grey
Luckily I can't count to over a 100
Otherwise id have 101
Come from 8 miles away
Wrong side of the tracks
No street cred
Get stage fright
Battle getting it up
Can only spit while flipping...
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Categories:
wrong side of the tracks, rap, slam,
Form:
Free verse