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G Is For Gritty

Greasy grimy gritty grievances
grabbed grandma’s gleamingly glitzy glasses
Giving griping grousing grandchildren gruesome 
glimpses of Grandma’s gleaming glitzy glasses.

Categories: gritty, word play,
Form: Alliteration

As the Sun Goes Down Near Alphabet City

He had no teeth and neither did his girlfriend.
We’d sit in his apartment in the dark drinking margaritas and watch Jeopardy.
He’d answer every question correctly and his girlfriend would cackle.
He’d shoot at the mice with a pellet gun as they scurried in the shadows.
He rarely missed.
Their heads would explode and I would feel queasy.
Then he’d

Categories: gritty, 12th grade, death, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Dark Soil

hardy pampas
     harmony zoysia
feather, feather, feather
festuca glauca, festuca glauca
   terra cotta, terra cotta
nassella, nassella, nassella
        polypodophyta

Categories: gritty, flower, science, song,
Form: Bio

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Immortal Norm

Feign neither to these visioned damsel life! 
Do ultra-pain ever vanish with time? 
Pre-infant, a thorny storm stunned out like a nipple 
Some say normally, it only tickles 
Stony bloke says, it's a nitty-gritty while my blood ripples 
What he wish to see ;for her to move fast out of cripple 

Several done seasons, her

Categories: gritty, birth, feelings, mother, strength,
Form: Rhyme

It Got Gritty

There's no armour for karma,
hurt her it harms ya,
playing between two
then karma gets you,
make a mug of a mate as well
all 3 see you fail.

so long mothermuffer farewell

fink i'm fic
yes you prick,
living on steroids 
always annoyed
doing my head in
now you're inside
your life is destroyed,

but say thank you shall I
for the party supply
all 3 of us

Categories: gritty, friendship, rude, slam, urban,
Form: Rhyme

Witty Gritty

Writer, come let your fancy thoughts unfurl:
Watch your ideas move past witty gritty;
See how lyric lines in mad outburst hurl,
Be bold and brave with feisty verse crazy.
Be willing to stretch your wordplay right here,
Dwell on your passage where message works best;
Seize the moment when madness greets fear,
Know that all things come and go in life's

Categories: gritty, allegory,
Form: Sonnet

The Dirty and Gritty

Most people need to see Magic in technicolor
because they want to see all of the bright creatures
like Brownies and Pixies.

I don't want to see the façades
that Brownies and Pixies
present to the majority of Society.
But I need to see the Dirtier and Grittier
side of Magic because that is where I belong.

The Truth of Magic is messier

Categories: gritty, anger, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Darkness Falls Gritty

Even behind your house

darkness falls all the way down

to the ground in dirt

with many arms you

try to grasp reality

suction cups in mind

guilt takes a walk

on the wild side

inhibitions take a hike

freedom reigns until

your conscience tastes salt again

on lips moist and tender

heat rises and the gritty

satin sheets love stained

blowing in the wind

like the song of

long ago

Categories: gritty, adventure, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse