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Brawls Poems - Poems about Brawls

Your hands

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Your hands would bleed from endless days,
Scrubbing floors to hide the stains.
Three kids hungry, three kids cold —
You broke yourself to keep us whole.

The cupboards echoed, barely fed,
But...
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Categories: brawls, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Big Mo

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When a horrible commissioner
was suddenly fired,
team owners interviewed
Big Mo.
They told him,
You're hired.

Changes he made to the game
were made right away.
Protests which followed
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Categories: brawls, baseball,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Black Box

...The Black Box

They came to the house 
for the wrong reason. 
In the end…
They didn’t care, 
any address would do, 
as long as the reports were made, 
and the numbers taken down
before the b...
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Categories: brawls, addiction, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTear-Off My Windscreen Please

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I’m racing round the NASCAR scene,
With bugs and grit upon my gleam.
The rubber flies, the dust goes wild,
Screen’s smeared, rip it off, I cried.

Tear it Off, Rip it Off!
Shatter My Veil,
t...
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Categories: brawls, car, race,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberUnite the Colors, lyrics

...Mankind generates the utmost malevolent deeds   
Sustaining corruption and ignoring those in need       
Beholding a mirror, peering at the countenance   
Dereliction of the conscious is an annoya...
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Categories: brawls, family, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Lyric



Premium Memberpugnacious Polly loved to fight

...Pug-nosed pugnacious Polly loved to fight
She started brawls every Saturday night
Snapping, snarling, punching, sneak pinching too
I don’t want to go to bars with her. Do you?...
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Categories: brawls, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOrange Blossom

...A broken heart 
Shattered dreams 
Leads to a life full of pain and misery 
A lost soul 
Forever forgotten 
Drifting Away 
Spun like cotton 
Experiences learned 
New process begins 
As the wo...
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Categories: brawls, courage, cry, dark, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHouse of Cards

...The truth is there are
“Very fine people on both sides”
(and of course scoundrels on both sides too)
Because that’s the way people are 
Good and bad, sometimes both
Depending on context.

It’s...
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Categories: brawls, culture, political, society,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPower in the Tongue

...Lies sprang from your fountains like a stream.
I saw them flowing through every ear.
Like the midday sun's bright rainbow beam
I saw it lighting each nook and sphere

You're joyous. Your face sh...
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Categories: brawls, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme

In the realm of serenity

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When life in the city becomes too much to bear
When I am overwhelmed by a sense
of hopelessness and unrelenting stress—
The cacophony of city streets,
A mish mash of jarring sounds
cars whizzi...
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Categories: brawls, city, confusion, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIs This Ample Enough

...none of the McCormicks knew which insect had made the crying sounds
odd since usually every McCormick is an expert about thirty-nine things
I know because my mother and her sixty-two sisters are al...
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Categories: brawls, family,
Form: Blank verse

Whispers

...You might say, “I long to chase this path, 
As far as it can go, to witness, feel and join,
The adventures of the wanderers. 
I want to mimic them, and do as they do. 
To dance as they dance and ...
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Categories: brawls, encouraging, freedom, gothic, parents,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVagabond

...“Wandering through empty and crowded streets with no destination in sight and sleeping under the sky with the fire burning inside was my life, the life of a vagabond. Survival is a funny game and lif...
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Categories: brawls, betrayal, dream, home, moving
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCat Style Slow Blink

...Cat style slow blink,
relaxed into infatuated reflexes;
‘Lick between the lines…’
a message conveyed;
The purr is burning the air 
dripping between each crevice;
Prowling into foreplay 
cat st...
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Categories: brawls, cat, emotions, kiss, lust,
Form: Free verse

Time

...I am pressing for time to conquer what is mine. I am pressing for time to meet with the divine. I can only be in one place at a time, and I am going to take my own time. I am not going to rush; I am ...
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Categories: brawls, adventure, america, beautiful, business,
Form: Narrative

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