Long Tighten up Poems
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AdrenalineThe legal system is business operated by officers and boys in the street
The legal system is a business fashioned to target the vulnerable and the weak
The people who cannot defend themselves or don't have...
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Categories:
tighten up, business, conflict, courage, culture, discrimination, freedom, gender,
Form:
Narrative
Stepping into the ring, to fight the Thing#BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, OH WHAT WE STORE! SILENTLY ABHOR! TO OUR DETRIMENT, {CHANGE}THAT SHOULDN'T BE IGNORED. DOING NOTHING OR LESS, WHERE PERTINENT, INSTEAD OF MORE! TURNOUT/BURNOUT...AN UNEVEN SCORE.
EATING, DRINKING, SMOKING, "YOU NAME IT"...
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Categories:
tighten up, conflict, depression, introspection, mental health, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Things Around Us - Part 2(Continued from Part 1)
Transparent figures walk at a flirtatious pace
On world-class runways, with no expression on their face
Parading styles you can't afford in your possession
They are the ghostly models of the latest, greatest FASHION.
A millisecond...
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Categories:
tighten up, life, words, time,
Form:
Rhyme
WhoopsIn a world that’s changing quickly for the likes of you and me,
we can hardly keep up with the pace that passes endlessly.
I’m not talking ‘bout technology, computers seem to give,
I’m talking ‘bout society and...
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Categories:
tighten up, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A MessageThe judge called it a crime against humanity,
He said he had to have lost all reason and sanity.
How could some one do to a race of people what this one man has...
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Categories:
tighten up, history, inspirational, people, philosophy, god, world, people,
Form:
Narrative
The Potato Miner-
Tom sat fer-nent the table within a smoker's chair
A table pot of pra-tes and bacon quivers there
The cook an apron dirty wipes the grease and clears her throat
She cooks her husband dinner the...
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Categories:
tighten up, family, night, home, home, horse, night,
Form:
Rhyme
War of the Sexes
Listen up, you tin soldiers,
it’s time to grow some heavy metal skin
In this battle of the sexes,
the enemy is winning the war ...
And that burns my masculine soul to no end
Team testosterone is in...
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Categories:
tighten up, humor, men, satire, women,
Form:
Light Verse
The Running PencilI can feel the moisture progressing on the top of my forehead
Little light creases start to form here on my chin
I'm looking at you and I can see that you are lovely
Beyond your red...
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Categories:
tighten up, fantasy, fear, write, me, write,
Form:
I do not know?
Up, up and awayHeyyy friend, since we always UP to something, I wanna give a tribute to the word UP, because everyday of our life we do something meaningful with the word up.
So with that being said, I...
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Categories:
tighten up, cheer up, life, meaningful, people, today, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
ToastLet me get this straight,
you demand everything be free
have no intention to assimilate.
I said we need to tighten up the boarders a bit
to screen who's coming in.
You called me a racist
said I put children in...
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Categories:
tighten up, abuse, america, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Living In Troubled TimesAs life becomes harder and harder to make ends meet in these troubled days,
Harder to stretch what little we have, and so unsure of tomorrow like being stuck in a maze.
As we tighten up our...
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Categories:
tighten up, lifetime,
Form:
Couplet
Edge of a DimeI don’t blow no trumpet. I don’t beat no drum.
Need to make haste softly ‘cause of where I’m from.
Draped in gray felt shadow with the brim turned down,
Keep my profile low if I go into...
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Categories:
tighten up, dark, how i feel, loneliness,
Form:
Lyric
The Happy Hour WheelTighten up your grip in full fanfare and splendour on reality
Embracing and professing humility
Promoting and brandishing flexibility and feasibility
As the span of your life grows
In pre-arranged columns and rows
Discounting character assassination throws
Delecting, delighting and pandering...
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Categories:
tighten up, poems,
Form:
Free verse
He Supposed He Was a Self-Made ManHe often thought to himself
that he has been too quickly assembled
that he should have taken more time
for the busy hands of his constructing mind
to fill-in the flaws, smooth-out the cracks,
properly tightened the loosely screwed together
parts...
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Categories:
tighten up, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Stop Right ThereSTOP RIGHT THERE!!!
NOT SO FAST….
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that Sonnet
Tidy up those rhymes
Feel the drumbeat of that meter
…the juxtaposed...
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Categories:
tighten up, appreciation, hope, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Big Man TingBeat quick This rhymes so sick, its needing nursing
Flow tight off the bat there’s no rehearsing
Challenge me to a battle? bruv I’m the first in,
U shook, I see u rattle from just one...
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Categories:
tighten up, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Did You GoYou are a sad person, you know?
Where's that unbending strength at?
Where's that unbreakable smile?
I'm the only one who understands how you feel.
Your smile was always shining.
But you lost yourself.
You...
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Categories:
tighten up, confusionlost, lost, sad, smile, strength,
Form:
I do not know?
Semi-Sailthe rig sails on
the captain at the wheel
steel billowed crosswinds
and Willie's gruff twang
come back...maybe not flip-flop
rigs riggin' is sailin', movin'
waving goodbye to yesterday
I'm a stowaway into today
ahead is clear horizon
aft is crewed distant past
the...
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Categories:
tighten up, adventure, life, on work and working, travel
Form:
Free verse
Down In Upwill it up
grill it up
fill it up to brimming
swill to still those silly cells
drowned in what they’re swimming
press ‘em up
mess ‘em up
dress ‘em up with practice
a hoarder in its order
and thorned as any cactus
mock it...
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Categories:
tighten up, addiction, analogy, anxiety, dark, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
I Decided To Stay a Bit LongerI screwed it on and it went right up the bank.
Hey! Said Crankden Cramden, was that mink named Hank?
The one who lost his head and needed a new one? I asked.
I think so said Bogland...
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Categories:
tighten up, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
The Ice Frozen Box, I Like To Call My HeartThe Ice Frozen Box, I Like To Call My Heart
8/04/10
By: Sami LaRose
In times of evaporation, the heart fades away
Looking for a newer and brighter day.
He strolls alongside Park Avenue
Then he see’s something he would never...
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Categories:
tighten up, death, depression, growing up, loss, lost love,
Form:
Verse
Standard DumpI don’t want your standard man; don’t dump your standards on me.
You want your standard man? It’s got nothing to do with me.
You and your standard man got nothing on me, even though...
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Categories:
tighten up, people,
Form:
I do not know?
In the ShadowsI have only become what I didn’t want
To be like the same person who hurt her
It’s really sad I might have taken a path close to that person
As sorry as I am, time has...
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Categories:
tighten up, africa, anger, anxiety, art, beautiful, color, conflict,
Form:
ABC
A Costume Fit For a PrinceSomebody came up with this great, fancy idea,
which in time turned into an unstoppable mania;
I was called prince...I had some blue blood in me,
but not living in a castle and considered true royalty!
I profoundly thought...
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Categories:
tighten up, childhood, funny, happiness, visionary, halloween, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
AnxietyHow dim and doomed my mind is
When I try to explain my disorder to own self and others,
Just as much as I hope to tighten up the loose balls
And invite the dead into my...
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Categories:
tighten up, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse