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Grainy Poems - Poems about Grainy

Ode to Jingle Songhits
... The thin newsprint pages cheap and slightly rough, A pocket-sized treasure, feeling just enough. Jingle Songhits, a name that brings a smile, A portal to lyrics for a little while. Remem......

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Categories: grainy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Rat Patrol Nostalgia
... The desert sun, a shimmering hazy sheet, A jeep's low rumble on the burning shifting heat. That opening theme, a brassy bold fanfare, Announcing danger hanging in the air. Remember Troy ......

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Categories: grainy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Battle of Black and White
... The grainy screen, a world of olive drab, Vic Morrow's weathered face, a soldier's weary stab At duty, honor etched in lines so deep, While young Rick Jason fought the promises to keep. ......

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Categories: grainy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Memory of N73
... The plastic shell, a weight within the hand, A silver trim against the darker gray, A relic now, across the digital sand, Where faster streams have swept the past away. The Carl Zeiss lens, a......

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Categories: grainy, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member No More
...The slabbed ceiling tiles are becoming the patio slabs of my childhood home. I'm highly strung in more ways than one, trying to send my mind elsewhere, but half-buried memories insert themselves, s......

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Categories: grainy, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



crippling anxiety
...I feel as if I am the only one. I stand, my feet planted in the sand, and look ahead of me; a vast ocean appears. It’s beautiful, yet that is not what my fixated being chooses to look on. I see death......

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Categories: grainy, analogy, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Twilight Gloom
...In gardens where the gentle roses bloom, The sun casts golden rays upon the land, A gentle breeze dispels the twilight gloom, And whispers secrets through the grainy sand. The days of sor......

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Categories: grainy, heart, light, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Photograph
... How old was I then - maybe seven or eight in grainy black and white. I can remember I was standing outside my grandfathers two story terrace house in Sydney. Must have been around nine......

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Categories: grainy, childhood, grandfather, house, memory,
Form: Free verse
1970
... It was the year of `Spirit in the Sky.’ I kept your picture, Irene. Norman Greenbaum has his own webpage now, imagine that? Your grainy wedding photograph (cut at the time from a local news......

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Categories: grainy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Elegy for e Space Poet
...You don’t watch the news anymore, forget to wash your feet in the shower, dream of walking on water because it was promised to you. You have never heard of rebranding. The sky is your meander......

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Categories: grainy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member she had been searching for grumpy gourd
...lovely lively lithe Louise Lampford grew a grainy greasy grumpy gourd believing beyond belief in Baker’s board she said she’d been searching for a grumpy gourd. We thought this would delight Loui......

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Categories: grainy, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Barefoot
...Behold A voice announces Release me Expose me to the elements Free me from fungus Outdoors Over cool ticklish grass, warm grainy sidewalks, and ......

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Categories: grainy, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
ACCEPTANCE
...ACCEPTANCE Thinking that I’m happy today Well now, isn’t that just great It makes a change, you think Faking it right up to the brink What you probably anticipate When hearing a donkey bray ......

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Categories: grainy, i am, irony,
Form: Rhyme
i only do free verse
...i only do free verse i rarely make exceptions ever since i learned about it in 5th grade i made a silent vow to myself that i would utilize this new expression ......

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Categories: grainy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
... In sepia foliage's of falsified fantasies, cursed by haunting hornets stinging with honeyed painted lies, her mind was like a matriarch of metaphors. An inflorescent seed buried in darkness,......

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Categories: grainy, analogy, angst, love,
Form: Free verse

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