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Shamus Poems - Poems about Shamus


Premium Member ONE WAY TO BE REMEMBERED
... At a memorial service for a friend in a park down by the sea as we remembered her I wondered…how will people remember me? I imagine most of the people at the memorial…from her friends to her fa......

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Categories: shamus, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member S For Fun
...Sophistication should always include a spoonful of spotless spontaneity Shamus shivered, silently seconding Sheila’s sassy sage suggestion.......

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Categories: shamus, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Alliteration



House of Commons
...Canadian Willie Amos Was so eager to be famous To prove he's no prude He zoomed in the nude And peed to confound the shamus 26.IV.2!......

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Categories: shamus, political,
Form: Limerick
The Shame of Shamus O'Toole
...There was a leprechaun, Shamus O'Toole On St. Patrick's Day he drank like a fool His pot o'gold, stolen Jaw broken and swollen Brawlin' o'er Guinness with Aiden O'Doul February 24, 2021 L......

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Categories: shamus, drink, holiday,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dr Mccrory
...The old man sat on a bar stool all alone. Acting like a king holding court on his throne. While most patrons sat absorbed in their phones; He spoke to any and all in cheerful tones. I perked up......

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Categories: shamus, age, allegory, character, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Fate Is Sealed
...FATE IS SEALED This road I've walked before I should know it so very well Because it opened up a door One that lead straight to hell I met a rider upon a dark steed He asked m......

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Categories: shamus, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
My Nose Is Hard
...Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle. Louis The Retch poked it into his back. “The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t cuttin’ no slack.” Murk had been tri......

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Categories: shamus, mystery, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
...Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely the ......

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Categories: shamus, humor, murder, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dog Gone It
...Finns dog just died And a loyal friend was he I picked two shovels up And passed one to McGee It's body in a box Was carried just by Finn As we slowly made the walk Where the funeral would b......

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Categories: shamus, bereavement, christian, death of
Form: Rhyme
So Many Shades of Green
...visitin me aunty Cushla For the first time in Ballybay I found meself beside a signpost An I stopped to find me way. It was then I spied a little feller Laid behind a bale of hay He was prepared to h......

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Categories: shamus, funny,
Form: Narrative
Singing In the Shower
...I know of a lass by the name of Kelly McGower Who would sing like an angel when she took a shower. But when she finished and came out of the rain, It seems that her talents would wash down the dra......

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Categories: shamus, funny, sweet, home, sound,
Form: Light Verse
Shamus
...Down these mean streets a man must go come shine, come rain, come hail, come snow; a trenchcoat, gun and cigarette, with hardboiled charm and gumshoe sweat. Pink neon signs light up the place......

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Categories: shamus, life, lost love, mystery,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things