Short Ghetto Poems

Winter in the ghetto
The slum rat dreams he owns
Buckingham palace...

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He loves me, not you
Sharp claws, spitting and hissing
Ghetto alley cats....

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Sister Mary Ward
Prayed to the Lord,
"Let me leave this ghetto,
And set up Loreto."...

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A kiss scares me
My shyness dear
Father orange river
Makes me an
Ornament of the ghetto...

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slip n' slide white moon
space cadets glide in the shine
illustrious orb





~JSLaM...

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Ghetto blindness this rhyme
Call the mountains to time
Melody beats and blows

The keep kissing your knees...

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Ghetto dreams, ponder
Broke hydrant, cement
Only leaking tears

© Drake J. Eszes

Submitted to Charles Henderson's: "Haiku your way" contest....

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The sound of guns in ghetto streets
   Kill little kids and star athletes
As gangs roam free in August's heat
   ~ Downtown Chicago's sights are sweet...

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Another government,is the GHETTO GRASSROOTS !

They beg for our votes,to ascend into power !

Where the government ideas ends,that's where the GHETTO ideas starts !...

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There once was a father named Geppetto
Whose daughter's shoes were ghetto

He made them so long
That she could pogo along

Cause he was too cheap to buy stilettos!...

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have you ever?
i mean ever?
with somebody you just met
just touched for the first time
just licked
like a lime twist
in yo ghetto blues sunshine
i mean really

have you ever?...

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THE MAN FROM ALEPPO

There was a man from Aleppo
Used to work at the goods depot
Home, no windows or roof
This is sure living proof
He is now living in a ghetto . . . : (

Indiana Shaw...

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The man they called 'King' 
   On Chicago's South Side
With a voice smooth as silk
   Pearly teeth smiling wide

Hit after hit, from 'Mona Lisa'
   To 'Unforgettable'
Not a number one hit among them
   ~ Whites wary of his ghetto pull...

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She never entered a ghetto.
She perfected a high-pitched falsetto.
At the Carnegie Hall
she could both enthrall and appall
as she shredded every libretto.

She's up there with her heavenly peers,
Where  many angels must now plug their ears...

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On the way to the ghetto joint
Used condoms you kick
Them all the way
Passionate nights
Sex from desperate minds
Night is black
White is the night
Sex is passionate
Without color
Day comes see the color
And cry tears of pain
...

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Little drummer boy with a rum-tum-dumb
Beat out a melody in ghetto slum
Fuzz drove slowly by
Saw Santa in sky
Consumed donuts as he fell on his bum

Written 11-29-2022
Contest: a Funny Christmas or December Holiday Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchen...

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“Individual”

I wear tight pants, and dress in black

I’M AN INDIVIDUAL

I’m not a copy nor a fake, I am what I am.

I’M AN INDIVIDUAL

I’m not ghetto, or punk or prep.  Labels and steriotypes don’t suit me.

I’M AN INDIVIDUAL,
Yeah, I’m me....

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We call our teacher Biopimp,
He comes in after hours.
He walks with a ghetto limp,
And hes like Austin Powers.

We know about his secret life,
The way he turns the tables.
He pimps it out without a wife,
I think he knows Scott Savol.

Dedicated to Bill Lastowski...

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I
smell
summer
in the air
humidity fumes
reflecting off dusty windows.



Thanks Sharon for pointing out lines 1/2 in a fibonacci are both only 
one syllable.  Doesn't read as dramatic but it works ... smile ...

************  for Brian Strand's contest  ******************...

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theres know palm trees
just drugs 
guns,sex,and money

ghetto paradise 
toast to good dayz 
struggle threw hard dayz

ghetto paradise 
a reality to some
a hell to others 

sewage smell 
police sirens 
influence to kill
at least 
in silence 

ghetto paradise 
ghetto paradise...

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Long ago, when I was young,
Before my hearing began to fail,
Why, I could hear a boll weevil
Tiptoe across a cotton bale.
                                                  
But many years have come and gone;
The ghetto blaster took its toll.
Now I couldn't hear an elephant
Dance in clogs with wooden soles....

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They look at me 
And see the girl
Who lives inside
A ghetto world
But don't believe
That's all there is in me
You'll never know the real me....
I'm sad among a thousand words
And frowns along a thousand smiles
I'm incomplete
Words just cannot explain
They'll never know the real me..
They'll never know the real KhaiB....

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Black stones fall to earth
My resolution this year
Find a falling star





By: Greg Stanley
For New Years Resolution Ghetto Haiku Contest
Sponsored By Indigo Dreamweaver

I hunt meteorites in the California Deserts, and hope to find one in 2012.  I have found some in the past, so I’m feeling confident...

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Just the other day
The vultures pounced on him
They cornered and beat him
He begged for mercy
But the vultures were thirsty 
For blood and money
Just because they found
Four joints in his pocket
Dear ghetto
Why do we get malice
Whenever we cry for justice?
Does a man deserve injustice
For smoking herb in a chalice?...

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Innuendo About Ghetto

Florida looks pretty with many palmetto
And why in central city is there a ghetto
After feeling sorry white people with pity
Moved to suburbs outside of the city
About ghetto life they made an innuendo.

Jim Horn

What a sad state of affairs.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31689/innuendo...

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