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Gumshoe Poems - Poems about Gumshoe

Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance Despite being an amateur paperback writer wannabe, whose storied protagonist stars colporteur wannabe (thinly veiled cover as yours truly......

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Categories: gumshoe, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend! I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ......

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Categories: gumshoe, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse



Stormgate
...Winds of change are fanning the flames are fanned by the deranged. The flames of misdirection, the winds giving chase (orchestrated by instruments to enrage. Horned cheering section.) D......

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Categories: gumshoe, abortion, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley passed away, so he sent me. He wrote of gumshoe detectives, and eschewed dumb invectives. ......

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Categories: gumshoe, appreciation,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Morning View From Snappy Shine
...The Morning View from Snappy Shine David J Walker 7 AM and the doors of Snappy Shine Are open The lights turned on for the Artists already at work in Palettes of kiwi and spit ......

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Categories: gumshoe, work,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Even More Buckets to Fill
...He’s driven forty miles of tough love, Tempted Dead Man’s curve, Met old Nick at the crossroads, Felt the black tar burn. He took two wrongs, made a right, Circled left on the radio dial, Ran......

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Categories: gumshoe, allegory, cat,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gumshoe Is Glued
...This poem will make the most sense if you’ve watched the old time television series “Get Smart.” GUMSHOE IS GLUED Silence - timeless... The cone is prone to make mistakes. ......

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Categories: gumshoe, conflict, silence,
Form: Footle
Verboten Netiquette
...Methinks I inadvertently got entangled without deliberate intent, sans whirled wide web, albeit courtesy of yours truly, who (flattered upon at least one maybe more'n one Prose.com subscriber cli......

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Categories: gumshoe, appreciation, fate, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Andy Always Knew
...Andy always knew that Barney was no Gumshoe Contest: One-Liner Entertainment Sponsor: Silent One Date:12-18-18......

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Categories: gumshoe, imagery,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Gum Shoe Is What I Want To Be
...In my child’s mind a gumshoe sleuth detective that would be me. Nancy Drew or Ms. Marple, invented by Agatha Christie. Trixie Belden and Honey too, there were so many choices you see. I spent ......

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Categories: gumshoe, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Corporate Pimps
... Everybody deserves a day off, even corporate pimps Let somebody else watch the Madison Avenue whores advertise their seductive cable street wares Conscript the company pimp wannabe intern si......

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Categories: gumshoe, allusion, corruption, jobs, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Private Eye
... You hate your job, but you're good at what you do A paid shadow who follows the trail of indiscretions that other people lead you to You're a gumshoe, sticking to the assignment gi......

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Categories: gumshoe, hate, jobs, loss, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
...Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely the ......

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Categories: gumshoe, humor, murder, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Revenge Is Beautiful
...I'd been living for years with dysfunctional peeps It was when, and not if, I would murder the creeps They completely deserved it, you'd better believe And their deaths were not hardly an item to ......

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Categories: gumshoe, bereavement, betrayal, conflict, eulogy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Another Time
...I found him slumped over his Remington No.5, no more "Elite Typing" for this poor fellow. His Fedora was on the floor beside him, flat as a pancake with a stilleto heel print in the centre of it. Oth......

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Categories: gumshoe, adventure,
Form: Narrative

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