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Bootleggers Poems - Poems about Bootleggers


Premium Member prohibition cancelled
...eighteenth amendment national prohibition thirteen awful years led by protestants fearing evil of liquor handcuffed alcohol policemen were paid off bootleggers became wealthy speakeasies ......

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Categories: bootleggers, abuse,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member BUTT ME- dedicated verse for Shasta Simms
... BUTT ME-- Oh Jazz Age of prosperity and dissipation Jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats Bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters recitations Bootleggers, and marathon dancer......

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Categories: bootleggers, adventure, allusion, analogy, celebration,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Tapora
...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) and a bridge too far on north-west passage. From out of the Valley of Mizpah to the fires of perdi......

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Categories: bootleggers, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Rum Runners
...The Rum Runners Dry was the USA a hundred years ago. Prohibition just begun, and spirits running low. Then, to the rescue, fishermen, fresh from the Georges Bank, Weighed down their boats with ......

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Categories: bootleggers, america, drink, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lives Stripped of Fun
...Homeless on the street disheveled and beat most think they're abject losers, unkempt, filthy freaks without baths for weeks, street drunks and drug abusers. From crippled beggars to......

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Categories: bootleggers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Verse



License To Breathe
... Publican politicians talk in half-price right angles Dodge City liberty being smoking barrel bargain sold at a chill, Colt-45 degrees AC (alcoholic crops) bootleggers selling Proh......

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Categories: bootleggers, imagery, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Some Like It Hot
...I love an old movie called "Some Like It Hot" Two guys from a jazz band, had witnessed a plot! Their lives might expire from gangster's gunfire They ran like the dickens without getting shot! ......

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Categories: bootleggers, crazy, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Recycle
... A sweet marriage turned sour, had to be tossed in the trash Wooden emotions of affection, anger burned love into ash Marital memories put in the attic, placed in boxes covered with dust Two c......

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Categories: bootleggers, divorce, lost love, marriage,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member I Just Had To Do That Search
...Rich white-collar crooks wearing suits, street walkers, and rowdy old coots, bank robbers, dope dealers, bootleggers, fake healers-- I found while pursuing my roots! fiction......

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Categories: bootleggers, family,
Form: Limerick
Of the Innocent and Sinners
...The Niagara, engulfing, consuming virgins and bootleggers alike.......

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Categories: bootleggers, america, history, native american,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member God Loves 'Em One and All
...'Tis said that God loves all His creatures great and small. Here are just a few of them - I can't begin to name them all! He loves us one and all the whole world wide from A to Z! His steadfast lo......

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Categories: bootleggers, funnylove, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are We Better Off?
...In my day we played outside, riding horses, Playing hide and seek and on swings and slides. And only on rainy days Were we confined inside to play. We played slap jack, crazy eight, go fish An......

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Categories: bootleggers, faith, history, hope, sad,
Form: Free verse

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