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Dingy Poems - Poems about Dingy

Premium Member the last customer again
...Red neon which looks lovely at four o’clock in the afternoon Somehow seemed dingy at twelve-thirty; he was the last customer bartender gave him a nod, and a sympathetic look......

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Categories: dingy, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blaming a Missing Person
...Two small pinwheels once rosy and gay Have faded in the sun, they are now dingy and gray How brilliantly colorful they once were, probably Popping with enthusiasm and joy to some degree Now the......

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Categories: dingy, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pharisee
... Pharisee, pharisee, you come again My night of hope screams for crumbs to eat, I’m just a boy needing a few coins Offering old tin cup to rich men on the lane. Cold my body wrapped like soiled ......

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Categories: dingy, child, poverty, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the runaway
... the end of day shuts down the smell of rain at 5 o'clock with gusty winds and withered leaves under my feet newspapers whirling from empty parking lots broken plastic bins rolling a lonely d......

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Categories: dingy, girl, lost,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Cleaning Frenzied Me
...I started with one small corner of my kitchen Set the timer, so I could stop in fifteen minutes Set the timer eight more times until the floor was scrubbed The counters were scraped, the table was......

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Categories: dingy, me,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tunnels
...Tunneling through nightscapes, weightless moon doll escapes. Collapsing space-time, the pages and pages, of fluttering windblown stages in quantum nonlocality, a graphic novel engages. Bur......

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Categories: dingy, birth, death, introspection, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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Categories: dingy, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Emerald Dreams
...Emerald Dreams "We should run off to Ireland,” she said. “Really, we should." "We could live by the sea, talk into the rainy nights, and wake with the screeching of sea birds." “We could b......

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Categories: dingy, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Crossroads
...These roads have always been here. Wood to brick, brick to stone, changes with the coming times. Modernity but where did it come from? All of a sudden, walking along different paths that lead to the ......

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Categories: dingy, conflict, lost, memory, october,
Form: Free verse
her and us
... so that was a shot of pure sunshine that sublime symphony of of what they told me the smokes would pass the time or the test of never was much for, but she seemed to have other plans yeah th......

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Categories: dingy, age, allegory, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member -TAPESTRY TRAVESTY-
...Some of ?? water your drinkin; Just short of dirty dingy-stinkin; Wise old owl ball headed shavin; Goats and chickens wrestling, misbehavin; Travesty tapestry 7/19/24 Written words......

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Categories: dingy, analogy, anxiety, assonance, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Janus face VS An Act of Kindness
...JANUS FACE Posted : 11-11-2023 Form : Free Verse “I hold a delightful being and an undesirable being inside of me. It’s up to you which one you meet” ......

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Categories: dingy, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Family RESERVATION?-
...Windows open, but the doors closed; Shut up are the cabinet doors; Running water from the faucet flows, pours; Down the counter top; Painted white ceilings but yet there’re dingy yel......

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Categories: dingy, adventure, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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 ......

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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......

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Categories: dingy, 1st grade, change, child,
Form: Narrative

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