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Insinuates Poems - Poems about Insinuates

Premium MemberMister Sunshine

...He’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act.
Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact.
Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze.
Tells you how he los...
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Categories: insinuates, allegory, sunshine,
Form: Lyric

Whitewash

...It's not that we despise you,
the case of colour doesn't arise, you
being black doesn't matter...
It's just that the customer's idle chatter
insinuates the good name of our honest pub
will take ...
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Categories: insinuates, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Argh Oh No For Dog's Sake

...Argh! Oh no for dog's sake...
Uneasy thoughts commander in chief...

Will be elected president
(putative tsar of United States
forever long he lives)
until... he abdicates faux
official crown ...
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Categories: insinuates, 12th grade, abuse, grave,
Form: Political Verse

To the Women Behind the Man

...She tries and tries and tries so hard
 only to have the breath kicked out of her
 life sucked out of her
 try to revive her 
find out that she has been dead all along 
and if you ask her again s...
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Categories: insinuates, woman,
Form: ABC

Roma

...Sneaking downstairs in the witching hours
I find my first lover
Before school, I rarely get much sleep

A Francophile who could keep me up for days
Staying in her arms or on her lap before dawn
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Categories: insinuates, absence,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSo Many Lights

...Daylight transforms us into physical beings
Family light reminds us from whence we came
Sunlight insinuates we are on earth for a reason
Stoplight reminds us there are important rules to follow
F...
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Categories: insinuates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Second Coming

...Chartreuse moss insinuates itself
into cracked brick as leprous eucalyptus
line the path, fallen leaves contorted 
into coral spines on weathered terra cotta.

Traveling between the trees I stum...
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Categories: insinuates, nature,
Form: Alliteration

Fantasies' Favours and Flavours

...Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the m...
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Categories: insinuates, poems,
Form: Free verse

A Continuous Today

...For the past, the future was never apparent
its dormant projection lay in unformed
no thought ever counted it of concern

Time tripped and dawdled, discovering playful as children do
a continuou...
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Categories: insinuates, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse

Rain

...my parched eyes watch torrents of rain 
lashing the glass windows
of my chic office on the seventeenth floor
can't hear the tinkling of drops 
or rumbling of clouds though
the sound obscured by ...
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Categories: insinuates, rain,
Form: Free verse

Saxophone

...The cellar is his bleak repose,


in concert with the cockroaches and flies;


there he wipes his runny nose,


toils the day long, sunshine tries,



insinuates through rough and crumbl...
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Categories: insinuates, music,
Form: Quatrain

Pain and Suffering

...The larval stage that insinuates
a protective agony made of silk
Interlaces incipience quilted diametrically
Which twitches against cogitation and reasoning closing in...
The same as guilt
Or wh...
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Categories: insinuates, muse,
Form: Free verse

Two As One

...Sniffles, sneezes,
lovers wheeze, their breathing shallow,
sadness now invests their meager fold;
gaslight bubbles, curtains flutter,
cold insinuates and takes a hold.
 
Misery, but wait, a spa...
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Categories: insinuates, love,
Form: Verse

Saxophone

...The cellar is his bleak repose,
in concert with the cockroaches and flies,
it's here he wipes his runny nose,
toils the day long, sunshine tries,

insinuates through rough and crumbled boards.
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Categories: insinuates, dedication, writing,
Form: Quatrain

Saxophone

...The cellar is his bleak repose,
in concert with the cockroaches and flies,
it's here he wipes his runny nose,
toils the day long, sunshine tries,

insinuates through rough and crumbled boards.
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Categories: insinuates, tribute,
Form: Quatrain

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