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Gritty Poems - Poems about Gritty


Premium Member 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....

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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



Premium Member 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...

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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...

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Categories: gritty, anger, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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

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