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Decals Poems - Poems about Decals

Premium MemberSheetal and the Dung Beetle

...This rhyme may seem strange but each word's truly equal
Now Beetle's tale's done no need for a sequel.
They'd chat by the teazel of matters so lethal
Of sequels and prequels and justice so penal.
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Categories: decals, humor, nursery rhyme, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Spring Festival

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   Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance 
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced t...
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Categories: decals, beautiful, god, love,
Form: Epic



We, Crazy

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In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil,
snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum personae , prosopopoeia explorae ...
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Categories: decals, art,
Form: Rhyme

Morning Reading

...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting,
the world is when stamped into rubber decals.

Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest.
Watching a colorful rolling diorama,
pictographs tumbling over...
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Categories: decals, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Waiting For Coffee To Brew

...Through a bathroom mirror
a naked ape looks
at its reflection.

Waiting for coffee,
reading fridge magnets,
I'm surprised how interesting
the world is
when stamped into rubber decals.

Unti...
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Categories: decals, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Role Playing With Strangers

...We paddle through small talk,
I like her, she has style.
I imagine we have a history together
back in an old movie that I have yet to see.

I begin to construct a lost and anecdotal life.
In an...
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Categories: decals, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Pickup Truck

...The pickup truck ahead of us
Had decals on the glass,
The first a flag – American – 
Like many cars we pass.

The second, a machine gun,
At an angle, all in white,
Announcing to the world
Som...
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Categories: decals, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHopeful Hot Wheels

...Deserted we lie, banished to a shoe box; discarded metal
scraping metal every spring as our ignored box gets shelved 
in a different room of the house; forsaken and further away
from real ...
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Categories: decals, car, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Morning Reading

...Reading my fridge magnets,
I’m surprised how interesting
the world is
when stamped into rubber decals.
Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest.

I watch an oscilloscope between my ears,
the spikes ar...
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Categories: decals, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Can No Longer Be a Duchess

...Affluent and formal
pink lilies deck the tables;
we await the 
sweet, affected 
laughter of our  friends.
Bedecked in bouffant hair-do's
perfumes, ermines, jewels
brocades and buckled shoes,
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Categories: decals, fantasy, farewell, identity,
Form: Free verse

Cool

...You're as cool as a parrot
who has to wear my fashion.
With just your leather jacket
to only share our passion.

With hair that's long and plenty
for making women jealous.
With neither of us s...
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Categories: decals, assonance, identity,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberLegend of the Red October Run

...Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners 

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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooner...
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Categories: decals, adventure, autumn, desire, football,
Form: Rhyme

Etch-A-Sketch

...It would not be such a stretch
To think that every kid
Drew pictures on an Etch-A-Sketch,
Like all my peers once did.

It was a toy that everyone
Possessed in his collection,
For it provided hours of...
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Categories: decals, childhood, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Fawn

...you disturbed the wild geese as your truck 
rushed out of the drive way my heart panted 

as I noticed the peeling logo on the side 
of the truck there were old ripped decals 

and expired fish...
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Categories: decals, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThe Cigar Box

...The cigar box reposed upon the closet shelf for nigh on fifty years.
Oft his family wondered what it held.  Perhaps some treasured souvenirs?
The old man, a veteran, had fought in the European Thea...
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Categories: decals, father, nostalgiadad, family, old,
Form: Rhyme

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