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Shivs Poems - Poems about Shivs


Premium MemberGothenburg Penitentiary

...Gothenburg Penitentiary, the hardest of the hardest/
The concrete jungle, where everyone is heartless/
Gothenburg Penitentiary, the show now mercy/
So, you gotta learn to swim in murky waters/
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Categories: shivs, anxiety, corruption, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPeacespeaker

...Pairing knives peppered the garden growing by the river.
Eerie sounds slid sideways into the lowering light.
Alfy and Alice were still out cavorting beyond the barn.
Children in dusty blue dresses...
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Categories: shivs, farm, peace,
Form: Acrostic



Dad Or Bad

...Dad or Bad. 

Broken homes
And 
Lavish dens
On Benefits
Or in a benz
Got enemies
Some call Friends
There's
Stick up kids
Gangs with shivs
And the thug addicts 
Selling drug habits
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Categories: shivs, life, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMister Z

...Splintered shivs of the mirror, life
     Memory strains my true visage
          Broken in jagged, shadowy grimaces
               Once ... smiles, joyous

Oh, immortality has many faces
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Categories: shivs, analogy, life, loss, love
Form: Free verse

One More November

...november’s storms keep my travels safe indoors 
the wind and snow prosper 
the tumult is a sad caricature of change
gusts play tag with ill-prepared complaining cars
pedestrians believe that even...
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Categories: shivs, imagery, november, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse



From My Window

...Worn ships are sailing
Riving the sea like sharp shivs,
To defiy dumb waves.

Valeria Iliadou-An Haiku From Your Window...
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Categories: shivs, inspirational, nature, sea
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things