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Parquet Poems - Poems about Parquet

Premium Member Let Me Get Romantic
...Let me get r o m a n t i c, cross my legs, pucker my lips, slip into your shadow. You say, “It’s a bit hot in here,” as I draw near. You're pulling at your collar, releasing you......

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Categories: parquet, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member big ticket
... * an updated version of a piece I wrote for my favorite baller, Kevin Garnett * ~ intensity ... defined excuses were for gods and gamblers (lesser giants with fairer feuds) HE ... w......

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Categories: parquet, analogy, basketball,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Wind Rose
... If remembering is hopeless, then it’s time to resign But its easy to say, than to perform rightly Time shifts down slowly, crosses the final line And red turns to brown, showing its time to fl......

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Categories: parquet, destiny, family, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Woke Raven with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe
...Once upon a midnight dreary, while I tapped my keyboard, my eyes bleary As I tried to write a novel that was no bore I looked for inspiration, how to avoid clichés temptation I’d write about rejuv......

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Categories: parquet, culture, humor, parody,
Form: Narrative
Welcome To Secondary School
...The teachers’ voices were loud and shrill, but there was just one message, “everyone sit still!”, though it was hard on the parquet floor, in polyester trousers, bought the week before, the fir......

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Categories: parquet, change, childhood, school,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member LOVERs LAGOON
...segment of the sun lemandarin, semi-black ‘midst toasty branches floats flamingos, flaming pink in lagoon’s brackish parquet *hybrid between mandarin orange and lem......

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Categories: parquet, art, bird, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
...Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house But all the mice were sound asleep for it was dark outside And then Rum saw a windo......

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Categories: parquet, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Search of Magic
...A spell is cast in gilded glass and marble parquet.......... Enchanted mirrors line the walls ..........but only one is hers Grey eyes study the room in search of magic................

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Categories: parquet, dance, fantasy, magic,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Boots With Attitude
...Boots with attitude Tromped into the marketplace Chopping up parquet floors Approaching me Stomping closer and closer I backed away Terrified of this woman It takes super confidence to wear bo......

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Categories: parquet, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Leaves
...Now my posh palette is laid waste. Winter, winding its way to fore, lays its whiteness at my front door. Vivid colors become murky paste and lose their hue with rash haste. My parquet is......

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Categories: parquet, autumn, color, leaving, winter,
Form: Other
Premium Member Crenelated Crimson
...In deep crenelated crimson, Autumn arrives in regal robes. Her boisterous blue burgundy surging with violent carmine. Autumn arrives in regal robes carpeting the earth with fractured parquet ......

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Categories: parquet, autumn, color, day, night,
Form: Other
Premium Member House Lizards
...They (wife and children) are scared to see it, As though Dinosaur made another writ; Hearing its rudely vexatious squealing, Each found corners feeling unappealing...! To me it seemed a pet, li......

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Categories: parquet, creation, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Is More Than Words Can Say
...I hear grand piano music floating in from afar It is poetry so crisp, It's crystal clear Poetry is chandeliers on high ceiling of white It is polished parquet in spaces with soft light Poetry......

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Categories: parquet, appreciation, celebration, change,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fig Leaf
..."We're going to need a bigger fig leaf." Proclaimed the teacher to her staring class As the model removed the last of his attire. A collective, almost silent gasp and the clatter of a fallen br......

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Categories: parquet, art, humor,
Form: Free verse
In the Middle of the Night
...In the middle of the night, When I’m struggling with sleep, I come up with many plans That I know I’ll never keep. I’ll replace the sagging couch, Sand and buff the parquet floors, Get new va......

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Categories: parquet, change, me, night,
Form: Rhyme

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