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Places Burlesque Poems

These Places Burlesque poems are examples of Burlesque poems about Places. These are the best examples of Burlesque Places poems written by international poets.


If your best work is produced while the moon is still awake
If your best work is done at night,
Which is now no longer your right 
With neighbors to to your right of you,
With neighbors to the...

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Categories: age, analogy, art, career,



The Ultimate Time Waster
If you are into time wasting,
Sooner or later you will find yourself flicking,
Although in the in the early days of TV there were reasons for...

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Categories: addiction, allusion, blue, cancer,

Jamboree
Jamboree

Young catholic people from far-flung places are arriving 
in Lisbon, plain young boys and girls looking sober smiling
and waving to the camera.

Dressed in jeans and...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: birth, books, career,

You Cannot Teach Ethics Without
You cannot teach Ethics without Hardship,
You cannot teach Ethics without Sacrifice,
You cannot teach Ethics without Going Without.

You cannot teach Ethics without Hope,
You cannot teach Ethics...

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Categories: age, analogy, appreciation, art,

Taking Away Children's Rights 1 By 1
When I was growing up parents were becoming aware,
Of children's right to chose what they should wear,
Though life was not always fair,
For those who did...

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Categories: appreciation, baptism, care, character,



There Was a Time
There was a time when despite regular bun fights,
Sexist attitudes,
Unrealistic demands by key players,
Money problems,
Drunkenness, 
And petty squabbles,
The end product,
That flashed across Cinema and TV...

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Categories: anxiety, baptism, character, conflict,

Can I Borrow Your Pliers
Can I borrow your pliers?
As I really want to rid myself of  this ring in my nose,
How it got there nobody knows.

I am being...

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Categories: addiction, allusion, anxiety, baptism,

Why
Why haven’t I been writing poetry . . .
do I really have nothing to say?

Nothing even though it's the time when time
is an avalanche halfway...

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© Mari Banks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, corruption, culture, environment,

Premium Member Born Again Freak Rewrite
BORN AGAIN FREAK

Was a virgin
long time
waited until he
pulled back that veil;
He kissed me for the first time.

I, never wanted to be
Handled nor touched,
he being my...

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Categories: feelings, graduate, journey, missing

Croak Proof
Webbed lip toadies,
their tongues do  do stink of lies
As they leapfrog from excrement places
that do  do attract flies

Brown tongue toadies,
their sticky web of...

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Categories: imagery, parody, perspective, truth,

Don'T Paces Blame
Get your information from the game and don't places blame, as I walk this street doing the same thing, you put me in this silly...

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Categories: anxiety, art,

Redneck Father's Day------
***NOTE~TO BE READ WITH A RIDICULOUS "SILKY SOUTHERN DRAWL" (have fun:)***



"Storm over yet...?"

"Well hay'ell ye'ah! 
 woo-hoo!
 sum'body git me a da'gumm cole beer.
 whadda'bou...

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Categories: caregiving, childhood, confusion, family,

Premium Member The Cleverness of That Young Traveler
Once his brown alpargata shoes trod countless miles,
imagination burst from his vivid, traveler's eyes...
He traversed valleys leading to azure mountains,
and heard a chant sung with...

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Categories: life, nature, nostalgia, peoplewords,

Exotic Dancer
Do people think you are sleazy and bad,
since the day you replied to that want ad?
The words were in black and white, and plain.
“No Experience...

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Categories: life, on work and

Premium Member Adam & Eve Inventory Accountants
Adam was an 
acceptable accountant
And Eve a bubblingly 
bright bookkeeper;
Adam loved the 
First-In, First-Out
Accounting (FIFO) system, 
While Eve preferred 
The Last-In, First-Out
Inventory (LIFO) system; ...

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Categories: funny, history, imagination, nature,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things