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Best Wrong Side Of The Tracks Poems

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A Ride In Dylan's Voice
Woke 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, journey, religion,
Form: I do not know?



K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow Joneses
KEEPING 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, allegory, dedication, nostalgia, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member More Than a Glance
More Than A Glance

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, appreciation, community, devotion, discrimination,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Growing Up, La - Part 1
- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - - 

My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)  
As such...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Find Our Way
Have 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, hopesong, song,
Form: Free verse



A Petrified Conjunction
A 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...

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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'T
Why 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, brother, confusion, daughter, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
A Stones Throw From Hell
a 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, black african american, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Again the Wind Blows
Against 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, depression, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Tracks
Life 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...

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© Will Karry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wrong side of the tracks, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Legend of the Christmas Bike
The 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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, daughter, death, father, holiday,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nothing That I Miss
I grew up on the right side
          Of the wrong side of the tracks
I hit the...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, inspirational, life, love, on
Form: Rhyme
Memory Lane
I walk down memory lane.
 It was just as I had left it.
 Garbage here and there.
 The smell of alchol,
 Mixed with the ever...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, childhood, depression, nature, sad,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Grease Monkey Rings
It 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...

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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 Spit
I'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...

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Categories: wrong side of the tracks, rap, slam,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things