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Private Detective
Private Detective Poems - Poems about Private Detective
Grayson Favour
...[Written with Matt Caliri’s ‘Chapter One’ contest in mind but too many verses (presuming that ‘three paragraphs’ also meant three stanzas)] * Grayson Favour, private detectiv......
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Terry Flood
Categories:
private detective,
hero,
Form:
Narrative
A Conversation With Harry Dresden
...Mr. Dresden, my name is Joshua Aaronson. How can I help you Mr. Aaronson? How did you find me? My wife Chloe goes to your brother's hair salon. Your brother Thomas said that you're a private ......
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Mark J. Halliday
Categories:
private detective,
chicago, child, daughter, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
A Conversation With Sherlock Holmes
...“Nice to meet you, Mr. Holmes, I am enormously elated, how it all started, may I ask, though somewhat belated.” “I was working silently solving intricate murder cases, until Conan Doyle picked me ......
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Categories:
private detective,
character, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
A Basket Case
...I was a private detective, and I was deemed one of the best, As the colorful tulip fields, are forever attracting guests. My skills seemed often in demand, and indeed kept me moving, As gold day......
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Evelyn Judy Buehler
Categories:
private detective,
career, fantasy, friend, mystery,
Form:
Couplet
Cutting the Ties
...Why wouldn’t you cut me loose from the strings that bind us You had left me dangling from a marriage that once united us together The bonds were broken - you had forsaken our love, not once but s......
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Jan Allison
Categories:
private detective,
betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The P. I.- a True Story!!
...it was the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1972- I was a simple college student, and budding musician.... I was lounging about, recording thoughts in my journal 1:15 Pm- (imagine, if you will......
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Tom Bell
Categories:
private detective,
adventure, funny, work, me,
Form:
Bio
Stupid Is Awake Now
...I lie here in our bed, I can't sleep anymore, listening for the slamming of your truck door. I know where you were, and the reason you didn't call, I followed you tonight, and I saw it all. D......
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Christy Hardy
Categories:
private detective,
confusion, imagination, life, lost
Form:
Narrative
Nostalgic Dreams
...I had dreams of yesterday I woke up with a smile My dreams took me back And it was better for a while. Jeff was calling Lassie We had moonbeams in a jar Perry Como was teaching us To catch ......
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Vince Suzadail Jr.
Categories:
private detective,
childhood, nostalgia, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme