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Duplexes Poems - Poems about Duplexes

did you not feel that

...Diamond Back Estates duplexes gave a shudder
Claire thought it was the folks living next door
She walked outside a few minutes later
And the earth seemed to tremble
Her imagination was working ha...

Categories: duplexes, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Bring Back Our Money

...Yesterday
Somewhere in Monrovia 
Shining stars dropped off the skies
They wore a beaming smile 
Brandishing their pockets and lifestyles 

Somewhere in Monrovia 
A container was sexually abuse...

Categories: duplexes, 12th grade, africa, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

The Thief

...They intrude even into his kitchen, 
hunting.

Now they loot fruits, nuts, spices, herbs, honey-combs…
Yet he tells them about a *Black Vasa’s medicinal miracle.

They come again, 
strip the f...

Categories: duplexes, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Comedy House Ii: the Rats

...Bewitched with irri-
tating glows,they ransacks the
purse and 'ijawo'; those rats!

Breaking news;
The Headline: "3 husky rats
ransacking the purse of the nation."
The news: As noted in the
h...

Categories: duplexes, africa,
Form: Political Verse

Amazing World

...The healthy man fights not to be sick,
Meticulous doctor prays to have enough patients,
patients hope not to end up in the morgue,
morgue keeper needs more corpses to keep his job,
The coffin maker h...

Categories: duplexes, life, people, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Who Is Mad

...He is an ant,nonentity and an entertainer,
He walks half naked in torn clothes,
dance openly in the market square
to music that is not there,
The crowd applaud with amusement.

He has no home
...

Categories: duplexes, life, satire,
Form: Free verse

Familiarity

...I walked for a while on the other side of the road
The whiteness of the late morning clouds
The moving rounded shapes of familiarity
Walking in the same uphill direction
With eyes in the sky
I d...

Categories: duplexes, childhood
Form: Narrative

A Trip For a Friend With the Flu

...A walk down Thomas Lane


Knotty Ash Pub  closed on left
On right the boy scout hall
We’re on the  left side of 
the tram tracks dividing
East Prescot Road
Two shops down is the bakery
...

Categories: duplexes, history, nostalgia, school, old,
Form: Free verse