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Manhole Poems - Poems about Manhole

To a future Lover
...I am watching 3 inches off of the floor, The man outside waits at my door I know the screams from within the box Howl and call upon your order upon the rocks But I know you can hold your tongue ......

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Categories: manhole, desire, solitude, youth,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member in the bitter
...concrete cold detroit manhole steam.... brief warm no homes veterans huddling visions wars hell traffic taxies blur..... city brittle in the bitter......

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Categories: manhole, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member snakes and ladders
... well if one won’t stoop to fight the devil ~ he will always condescend he’s further up the ladder ~ but down a manhole so let’s not pretend and how do I know such things ~ on any level he’s......

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Categories: manhole, analogy, evil, perspective,
Form: Monoku
On a Dusty Road
...On a dusty, hot black road, I wipe a tear from my face With the smell of loneliness. Sleepless nights, Days without work, I greet the evening with The smoke of nicotine in my eyes. A......

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Categories: manhole, deep, depression, emotions, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watch Out For Manhole Covers
...If you are in New York City Where smog makes the air not so pretty And a manhole cover explodes in the air Run as fast as you can, get out of there! These covers weigh three hundred pounds, these......

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Categories: manhole, city,
Form: Rhyme



Peggy Cahill Divine Heavenly Lady
...Peggy Cahill divine heavenly lady Saint Vincent dePaul Food Pantry at Saint Mary's Parish in Spring Mount blessed, graced, and praised courtesy grateful recipient, he who crafts these words.......

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Categories: manhole, adventure, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Charles Schulz Peanuts Character Woodstock
...Charles Schulz Peanuts character Woodstock Analogous to (being mine) security blanket similar, but not identical to the trademark one clutched by Linus Van Pelt, I take flight into sleep cour......

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Categories: manhole, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To the Mobile Phone
...As I gazed up and down my street ,fellow neighbors never stop and speak Three neighbors held their cell phones hiding their facial expressions. Saw and heard me not when i yelled be ware an open manh......

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Categories: manhole, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fallen Man In Manhole
... I must be a tad, lazy Come across a bit crazy I walked to a manhole and I jumped in And the sewer waters One raccoon and two possums I felt like it was an honor Cause I'm homeles......

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Categories: manhole, adventure, analogy, anxiety, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Its High Time
...I'm the sleeping child in the ribcage of civilization Forgot that I need to wake up for absolute time It's time, yes, it's high time to write poem It's time to write a letter of poem on yellow en......

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Categories: manhole, life,
Form: Free verse
Acknowledgement Forthcoming Today February 8th, 2022
...Acknowledgement forthcoming today February 8th, 2022 Matthew and Abby Harris express gratitude concerning largesse regarding quite a few bags of comestibles plus two twenty five dollar gift car......

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Categories: manhole, angel, blessing, devotion, february,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Untitled
...He said, "Old folks ain't worth nothing." He said, "I'm thirty! and if you're over thirty you ain't nothing." I said, "That's a lie! I'm seventy-one and young at heart." He hadn't seen me sunnin......

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Categories: manhole, adventure, appreciation, blessing, change,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Untitled
...He said, "Old folks ain't worth a damn. I'm thirty, and if you're over thirty you ain't nothing." I said... "That's a lie! I'm seventy-one and young at heart. He hadn't seen me......

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Categories: manhole, appreciation, blessing, encouraging,
Form: Bio
A Nation of Narcissists
...fumigated like stockade lice you Wall St. cologne jockeys would be 3rd World land fill recall that consciousness is tunable adjust your volume to a comfortable level because Turette's plus Alzhe......

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Categories: manhole, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Manhole
...An easy- go-lucky man passed by an open manhole And thought of putting back the lid after his dance at the hall He partied all night long 'til hardly drunk before dawn Passing b......

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Categories: manhole, character,
Form: Rhyme

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