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Grubby Poems - Poems about Grubby

Premium MemberA Somber Mind Dulls the View

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I looked at the Spring garden, I was about to paint,
knowing the new tubes of paint I ordered, were due, any time soon.
I saw that many of the rose petals had faded,
from red to mauve, some that...
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Categories: grubby, angst, anxiety, art, depression,
Form: Free verse

Ugly Monkey Wishes To Be A Dog

...Gabby wailful goes wane
Gassy wagtail
Gruff white-livered
Grudging walleyed
Grubby wanton 
Grouchy warlike
Great weasel
Gross-out wicked
Grizzle whiney 
Going in will-o'-the-wisp
Going with...
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Categories: grubby, allegory, analogy,
Form: Other



Premium Memberas we metamorphose

...Inside a chrysalis, a pupa clad in logs,
was a home in which to spell and dwell, 
for my transformation.
I slept undressed, surrendered to my fate, 
as my grubby caterpillar form, 
dissolved und...
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Categories: grubby, change, recovery from,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Grifters

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They do not spend their time at home
the way most families do 
Talking of the day’s events
and dreams they will pursue

Oh no, this family’s different
they’re led by dirty Don
Steeped in lif...
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Categories: grubby, corruption, family,
Form: Rhyme

Show Off

...Rise and shine,

Know you are Divine,

You get to draw the line,

Let your heart and mind align,

Feel your energy intertwined,

Within all of your design.

Love is the light you shine,
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Categories: grubby, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Blue Nazarene

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“The Blue Nazarene” 

caeruleum caelum 
in nubibus
caeruleum

caeruleum caelum
in nubibus 
de hyacintho nazarene

testimonium:

white stallions, 

clouds commandin...
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Categories: grubby, muse,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberSurf Usurped

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Hitchhiking by blurred station generic
Gypsy Flora slips anonymous, gravel
Grinds her heart of garbage, barbaric
Buried skeleton stirred, further travel 
Ticket to Keep It Secret

Scarred i...
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Categories: grubby, allusion, deep, environment, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA big, come on to the Swiss,

...Ill-logical..? Philosophy.' Devious topoggraphy..Asset flow
Incorperated to bringl a stagnant; septic situation.' In the
1970's a $ 10,000 cash limit was the goal,  we were led to
Beleive.' Not th...
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Categories: grubby, color, community, courage, education,
Form: Verse

A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,

...A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,

(and cries out long day's journey into night,
no...not for Eugene O'Neill),
but rather being distributed
in their respective bins at Wegmans
Under t...
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Categories: grubby, adventure, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberImagine That

...How far we've fallen.
About a half century ago
there was a young man 
living in John Lennon's Garden.
disillusioned- dirty -confused.
Outside his mansion John came out 
briefly chatting with th...
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Categories: grubby, sad, sick, social,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalloween Bride

...And yet the Sun did rise again to warm a broken scene
It peered through ruined window frames where coloured glass had been
Inside, beneath a vanquished roof, before an alter, smashed
She waits in ...
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Categories: grubby, halloween, wedding,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGoblin Ghoul and Ghost

...generous Gus, Greystone’s glaringly green goblin glided into the glades.
giving Ginny Graceful, a gruesome ghoul a glimpse of glorious shades.
gary, Gryffindor’s ghost glared at them; for where was...
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Categories: grubby, word play,
Form: Alliteration

Premium Membershort abc poem

...diabolical Denise denied doing deliberate dastardly deeds
easily evacuated energy and excitement from everyone
forewarning frantic free-wheeling freemasons from
giving grubby grimy greedy Denise a...
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Categories: grubby, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC

I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome

...I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer el...
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Categories: grubby, age, appreciation, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse

A 1950s Lancashire Life

...So you want to hear a story, first of all there is no morning glory. Your feet touch the floor its cold as ice as is the water, what a surprise.
With sleepy eyes you look for your clothes, best thin...
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Categories: grubby, child, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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