Queuing Poems

Grandpa the Master Magician

...Grandpa the Master Magician

Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time ...
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Categories: queuing, fun, grandfather,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Dance of Jealousy

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Daisy danced the wild dance of jealousy 
Her dancing was her revenge weaponry
She did the can-can
To excite her man
Whom she had caught enjoying revelry.

She had been queuing at the ...
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Categories: queuing, anger, dance, jealousy,
Form: Limerick


Premium MemberTic Tac Toe

... *This poem will make more sense to Americans
who watched t.v. in the 1970’s

TIC TAC TOE

the board real tidy. today Tiger would hold
together the family photo. how old the queu...
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Categories: queuing, america,
Form: Free verse

Queuing the Doing

...QUEUING THE DOING

Who would care what people write
It’s what they really do that matters
Despite the fancy poetic metaphors
Nor thinking it may give one pause
Fearing one’s words are all in ta...
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Categories: queuing, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLife

...When the dead become insane
The tramps the down, the ill-arranged
The junkies burning over flames
The fools who couldn’t be renamed
Where do they go to shoot the light
Eat the bread
Kill the ni...
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Categories: queuing, deep, irony,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThursday Memory

...Shop bells tinkling from eight 'til late
queuing customers having to wait;
Thursday,closing at noon
opportunity to court and spoon.

Collection boxes built into walls,
gossiping ladies in their...
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Categories: queuing, life, nostalgia,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberHomeless

...Homeless 

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun to decorate
The Christmas tree today 

Hanging coloured baubles
Plugging in the lights
Hoping that the fuse box
Doesn't ...
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Categories: queuing, blessing, change, community, december,
Form: Rhyme

British Traits That Ain'T So Great

...We as British people are known around
the world for our own individual traits

Such as we are supposed to be and
thought of as polite

Love ever so saying and apologizing
for anything and ever...
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Categories: queuing, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sombre Reality

...Floods, earthquakes, hunger,
Worldwide strife,
Severe drought, dire thirst
Reality becomes apparent.
To stay alive
And to survive, 
For many, will perish.
Humanity will be rationed,
Life as w...
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Categories: queuing, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFans and Swindlers Issues

...It barely vanquishes my quenchless spirit of inquiry.
To what exactly reason have I sledded so wildly?
Boasters and swindlers sprang up a treaty vigorously.
People are queuing to sw...
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Categories: queuing, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOn the Outer Edges of Space

...Some say there are aliens living on the frontiers of space
Who've traveled beyond the boundaries of the known universe
Gotten very near the gates of heaven, spoken face to face

With God in their...
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Categories: queuing, god, space, travel, universe,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium MemberKing of the Jungle

...King of the Jungle 

Queuing with my homies
Houdinis every one.
No sharpened  tongues, but scissors,
To calm the shaggy throng 

Not all blokes in this queue,
Despite lockdown's grooming bloo...
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Categories: queuing, hair,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNeurons

...I’ve sat here all night just trying to write
But nothing would spring from my brain
I looked in my mind and what did I find
I think that I’m slightly insane 

I’ve been unaware of things that li...
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Categories: queuing, nonsense, surreal, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Ink To Paper An Un Quatrainal 19nov17

...On an empty page, my quill
Does not sit to quench
Its thirst to lessen this quandary
To let, nay make, quintessential 

Inroads, biding thy quiver 
Of lexiconical bolts; queuing
And firing for...
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Categories: queuing, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse

The Night

...Leaping light in dull darkness
Moonlight mambo in nightfall nets
Mediative minds in spurring spaces
Vocal visions in vacant vicinities
Enlightened eyes in doubtful decisions
Queuing quietness in...
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Categories: queuing, beautiful, feelings, night, silence,
Form: Free verse

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