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Graffito Poems - Poems about Graffito


Alexamenos Who Looked Up High

...(Poem in honour of the ancient Christian named "Alexamenos" who was mocked with Christ and named in the "Alexamenos graffito" in Rome)

A man who looked up high towards the blood-soaked cross of ea...
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Categories: graffito, christian, dedication, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Acrostic

Apres Le Deluge

...Après le déluge 

Après le déluge, moi
2 1/2 hours to work in my car
It’s part of the game
And I’m grateful
Driving in circles
I am faithful
To my calling

What have you become?
What have ...
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Categories: graffito, beauty, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Graffito

...Ugly
	Angry
		Vandalism

                                         Justified
                                         Then
                                         Capitalized

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Categories: graffito, art, loneliness,
Form: Concrete

Identity Apples

...Identity Apples

iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting 
from the sad memories of dada 
and dark mysteries of aminism 
iam buganda 
i bleed hope 
i drip the honey of fortune 
makerere, think tank o...
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Categories: graffito, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Didactic

Escaping Rhymed Detonation

...Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned rhymes
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Categories: graffito, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism



Critiquing Greek Hieroglyphics

...Fanciful musings written in challenged braille scribbles
   midst reveries' graffito on stone-cold deafening walls, 
like Greek hieroglyphics for the poetically deranged
  awaiting symmetry's refl...
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Categories: graffito, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberW O M E N ' S

...The graffito worried him of
W O M E N 'S
Women's what?
He thought of all our attributes

He therefore wrote
M E N ' S
on the showcase wall
to see what the response would be

Sharon phoned
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Categories: graffito, relationship,
Form: Light Verse

Tagged

...young buck, half buck, maybe two buck duo
maybe troubled like infamous Dutch painter
maybe a whole gang'a bucks that you know 
shakin' cans for markin' their container

a mark of art - some meaty gra...
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Categories: graffito, adventure, art, imagination, social,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMonoku-Appropriation Art

...flotsam and jetsam -
                               seascape graffito...
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Categories: graffito, art, sea
Form: Monoku

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