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Bootleg Poems - Poems about Bootleg

Premium Member What Breaks You
...What breaks you is a seed. You water it with silence, Prune it with isolation, Feed it with attention. What shattered your world, Will shape your crown. A bootleg kind of royalty, Rooted not......

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Categories: bootleg, blessing, creation, fate, innocence,
Form: Blank verse
Missin Missouri
...While you're there, beneath the sun's warm glow, Where green trees whisper secrets, and soft breezes flow, By Bootleg Creek, where the waters gleam bright, Purple and red Crowley Ridge agate......

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Categories: bootleg, day, fun, journey, missing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member eye openers
...if absence make the heart grow fonder ~ presence make heart run better if you take money from high interest banks ~ make sure they know its a loan a dime a dozen are friends t......

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Categories: bootleg, appreciation, imagery, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Scoundrels of the Senate
...Again these men comes to mind, Paid to say yes and nay, Lame duck, Canker, ***** rapscallion minds Incorrigible, Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries Maggots in honor......

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Categories: bootleg, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'Ve a Hole In My Head
...Cadaver, Godiva and Quiver I believe that I've poisoned my liver Pushcart on the ramp fell apart I'm afraid I've damaged my heart Pencil Lead, Interbred, Seeing Red I th......

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Categories: bootleg, humorous, pain, word play,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Back To the Future
... I On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek follows a road to the Firth in the bay. Where old friends old glory and old times seek merrily unconcerned by ......

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Categories: bootleg, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Car With No Reverse - 1975 Chevy Monza 4 Speed Manual
...I rolled like Caesar down the boulevard the day I came to town. My triumph was impromptu and abrupt. I parked my Chevy by the curbside on a gentle downhill slope In hope there’d be no need for bac......

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Categories: bootleg, car, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Opportunity
...Life leaves scratches her fear of limitations in an unwieldy gait uncertain in her body self wisdom that wounds knowing missed chances wh......

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Categories: bootleg, age, cheer up, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That Befriends Is a Gift
...A new friend is a gift one can keep or reject, how you feel doesn’t matter, a gift is a gift! If a friend can’t get earned, can one be just desserts? If you want to be friends and I don’t, are you......

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Categories: bootleg, blessing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Armed With Wings of Cypress Wine
...~ A Monorhymed Fantasy ~ A virgin maid of twenty-nine angelic face, most benign Sought the life of the front lines her upbringing undermined... Two devilish, slack-jawed canines leape......

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Categories: bootleg, adventure, dog, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Check
...~ Check ~ I confess my discontent I was stifled In restraints by suggestions and pretty things The ones bought in the streets for a stroke of ego The ones bought by the vulnerable and naive ......

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Categories: bootleg, drug, emotions, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Painting In Black and White
...Word Painting In Black and White Cubed ice dismantling the plank bridge with pliers made of syrup spilled with a dash of grief and brawn the reptilian doughboy mixes up another cosmic batch ......

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Categories: bootleg, memory,
Form: Free verse
Some Bootleg Beer
...Some bootleg beer that only came in kegs during the twenties made me think of you. Like an old IPA, filled with hops, that I just had to drink because it was all there was. Some intellectual ......

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Categories: bootleg, 6th grade, angel,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Inside a '72 Econoline
...Inside A ‘72 Econoline This old green van has a musty smell to it, Like a pair of sweaty rancid socks Mixed with half-empty beer cans. It’s a banged up thing, this ’72 Econoline. Scratches and......

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Categories: bootleg, desire, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Void
...There’s nothing inside But a deep, deep hole It’s all black and white Color’s just a fairy tale Does anything really matter? Does anyone really care? Purpose is just a word In a language I......

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Categories: bootleg, corruption,
Form: Free verse

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