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Parlours Poems - Poems about Parlours

Premium MemberMy Hair

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As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky.
My mother worried over my physical stature.
She believed that all the nutrients in my diet,
were rapaciously devoured by my hair.

From childhood ...
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Categories: parlours, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Other

The Irony

...In this bared land of the fertile alphabets
You didn't spread out the mat of poetry

Thousands crore of years I rowed the oar of your spring
No smiling flower bloomed there in the desired tree

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Categories: parlours, life, love,
Form: Free verse



The Pilgrimage

...Every six turns of the moon
A journey to the girl I take.
I leave behind my safe cocoon
Into the noise and into the fake.

The pungent smell of multicolours
Punching nose and mind alike.
I sit...
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Categories: parlours, dream, happiness, loneliness, mental
Form: Rhyme

Why I Weep

...As the Bus with a sight, rumbled along,
Its weary cargo slumped, for the journey was long.
Babies in agony clung to wretched mothers
Oblivious they are without fathers,
Their only concern, to suc...
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Categories: parlours, betrayal, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Time To Introspect

...What are we doing?what is our goal in life?
To look most appealing in front of all? 
Be the topper in all? Have most money and fame?
To be praised by everybody?
We dress up well, attempt to look ...
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Categories: parlours, absence, introspection,
Form: Free verse



I Remember You Happiness

...I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
  of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the coffee corner shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent 
from the baker's sour ris...
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Categories: parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse

I Remember You Happiness

...I remember you happiness
through the early aroma
  of grinded coffee beans
wafting gently from
the corner coffee shop
I remember you through
the freshly bread 'scent 
from the baker's sour ris...
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Categories: parlours, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Pains of Wasted Years

...Yesterday,
She was a beauty Queen,
Flying and walking on the smooth roads,
On the streets and restaurants,
Beer parlours and churches,
Like an angel from Venus,
The
Handsome,
Rich
And
Self ...
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Categories: parlours, pain,
Form: Free verse

The View of Anthony Hepplethwaite 2013

...With a little tightening round the waist 
the skinny day comes out to taste the 
fatness of the light
I am in sight of something great but I’m hungry,
cannot wait
so I make my move too soon
and...
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Categories: parlours, death, loss, political,
Form: Rhyme

A Day In Arcadia

...You leave the car at what was once, 
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows 
but parking motorists feel alarm.

Across a road are loos, ex milking parlou...
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Categories: parlours, beach, beautiful,
Form: Verse

Twilight Zone

...The Twilight Zone 
In the nearest town and close to all amenities 
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife 
and went to look at an elderly people’s hotel 
where people of a certain age get...
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Categories: parlours, age, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberIronbar

...He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where...
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Categories: parlours, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme

The Penny Arcade

...The Penny Arcade
 
Back in the 1920's, Americans would go to entertainment
spots around big cities like New York and Chicago, were
you could go to have some fun, these places were run
very cheap...
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Categories: parlours, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Rainbow Crayons and White Pages

...The children were asked to paint

What they remember of summerbreak

In other parts of the world

They would have painted beaches, bicycles

And smiling stickmen in front of ice cream parlours

 

Bu...
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Categories: parlours, sad, war,
Form: Free verse

To Serve Is To Be Served

...To serve you took an 
oath;
To lead in patriotism
And to shun nepotism.
To hold in esteem the 
nation
And give back with 
integrity its ration.

Like a leader being 
called 
To regard his ...
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Categories: parlours, political, men, integrity,
Form: Verse

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