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Dingy Poems - Poems about Dingy

Dingy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about dingy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for dingy.
Premium Member A Row Of Ducks
... An ignorant duck breeder with a moat Put off repairing his dingy to float And he doesn’t yet know Getting his ducks in a row Means more than getting his ducks in a row-boat ......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, animal, fun,
Form: Limerick



School Borders
...Walking up uneven sidewalks— up cracked little hills of pavement, past dingy apartments gliding through trailer parks— rough rails and low fences skidding my fingertips— reaching the dampened s......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, 1st grade, change, child,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heartburn
...How it feels when love took a wrong turn Like spice was turned up high and burned Like you were promised a piece of pie But instead got a plate full of worms Feelings that fill your head with he......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, betrayal, blessing, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetry Police
... The pressure is on, can't let a day go by Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door And exacting severe punishment Us poet g......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Awakening From Stupor
...I welcome the grogginess. That dulling of my senses. Until the walls turn to hazy grey. My hand coming in and out of focus. Another two fingers of whiskey swirling in my glass. “Bottoms up” ......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, addiction, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Prose



Adjust to Gong Bust Horn Haiku
...when on table went bust Horn Haiku I had to adjust tell tale and into head thrust God forbid what I did was to act like a little kid who had flipped his (her or their) lid. when we had an u......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Man at the Bar
...I walked in and pulled myself up to the bar, The place was dingy and smelled like sour beer. The people all had that same stare, Inebriation wrinkles covered their faces. "Give me a scotch on t......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, absence, abuse, addiction, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange Eh
... The pressure is on, can't let a day go by Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door And exacting severe punishment Us poet g......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, surreal,
Form: Free verse
A Hidden Treasure
...Years are piled in slouching display. Dust bobbles on a sunlit window, yet the small ragtag shop is dingy, without and within. Its second hand put downs, left to clutter; emblematic of one life......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Janus Face - 1290
...“I hold a delightful being and an undesirable being inside of me. It’s up to you which one you meet” ......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Key
...what, I wonder, did you unlock winter songs of summer birds in a dingy cell with clawed-at walls in drawing rooms where princes died and all the soldiers marching by trembling in rooms......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, deep, history, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Old Photograph
...I rummage through a box of old photographs. A lady’s image holds my eye: I hold her up to light filtering through a dingy window. The edges are frayed, a scratch cuts across her face, a scar ......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, age,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Junk
...Her great grandkids found it in the junk corner of the attic. An old weather-beaten trunk, leather handles, a spring lock, an invitation to meet her. They laughed as they pulled out some lost toy......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, america, family, military, war,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Long After and Long Before
...Long before we met I loved you though countenance as yet unclear; long before I ever heard your voice, sensed I a perfect fit out-there, somewhere for my very eclectic ear -- Destiny ......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, christian, devotion, heart, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
...You have raided my night again, as the burst of a sudden storm, sneaking into my loneliness, at the most unexpected hour, plunging me into swirls of pain too deep for expression, leavin......Read the rest...
Categories: dingy, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse

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