Short Grimy Poems

A mirror grimy
Dust, insect, fears, tears: my past
Reflect his image....

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Grimy grubby unkempt unscrubby
He pranced around with keen delight
Skipping on cool cobblestones
Throughout the amazingly fun night...

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Coal
dirty, grimy
shoveling, glowing, burning
smoke, soot, heat, pressure
hardening, shining, dazzling 
brilliant, beautiful
Diamond...

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Grimy sweaty dusk, 
                                             L.A. hazy horizon.
                                            Steaming torrid lune....

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Nostalgia what seductive flower
         but it's dark and resentful
         from afar it is ugly and grimy
         only its bitterness is felt close!...

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Greasy grimy gritty grievances
grabbed grandma’s gleamingly glitzy glasses
Giving griping grousing grandchildren gruesome 
glimpses of Grandma’s gleaming glitzy glasses....

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There are some that are gross, slimy, and grimy and smelly too but that could be 
helped with tooth paste who knew? Obviously not you. Just to minutes day and 
night and that smile will be white and bright!...

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It is hard to be a Flake
Melting under pressure
Turning to slush

Good for nothing
But to slip
Some one up

Grimy and gross
Ground under boots
Everyone treads on me just because I can't stand the heat!...

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Pink princess poodle Paulette provided plush pats
Potential suiters sauntered around her magnificent mats
Greasy grimy gringos glamorized gnarly nodding gnats
Lounging, lithe, lovely Paulette provided pleasing pats....

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TRIBUTE TO COLLARDS

Great green globs
Grimy messy mound
Never finer found
Smack, drool, sniff
Knife, plate, spoon
Taste, savor, share
Stuff, sweet, sleep


7 March 2018
For the contest sponsored by Edward McCall...

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As he, reeling, roamed the back streets

the grimy alleyways, the filth weighed on him

   He, born to privilege, was unworthy

no better -- No! the same as -- the stooped

   figures scurrying into the shadows of despair...

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Mares eat oats and does eat oats and li'l lambs eat ivy
Sounds like the political scene today, makes us feel grimy
I'm seeing an end
Hope I'm right, it depends
On coming to our senses and saying “Adieu, Mr. Slimy!”...

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Mares eat oats and does eat oats and li'l lambs eat ivy
Sounds like the political scene today, makes us feel grimy
I'm seeing an end
Hope I'm right, it depends
On coming to our senses and saying “Adieu, Mr. Slimy!”...

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It seems to come alive at night
This house
From the ground up
Dirty and Grimy
While the sun shines 
No life to be seen 
For miles around
But the night
Sparks burst 
Animals reunite 
In longing 
The house  
But only at night....

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He sits rounded, like a stone
colours dripping with the rain
fading like an oil painting

His grimy hand outstretched
holding out a white cup
his very own white flag

My expensive leather shoes
thump the ground in time
trembling, eyes cast down

I scurry by...

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The rain trickles down
Slowly on grimy gutters found
But the sun will shine again
As a promise made without end

But the cold grey days stain
And will in my memory remain
In a plan that stretches ahead
As an eternity is forever spread.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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a prison cell for me

with six foot walls a grimy gray
an eight foot ceiling mothen light
today is nothing new
my gruel will come to greet the noon

Writing challenge 2 May 2019
Lind68868 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart
May 16, 2019
(a living theme)...

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Will she
Will she make me mad or will she make me sad?
Will she let me climb in or will she just make it the end?
Will she let me feel it all greasy and grimy 
Or will she just not makes it the time.
And for all you dirty mind people.
It's a car I'm trying to get her in to gear...

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Scrubb and scrubb and wipe away
But you're back the next day

Thick and grimy even kind of slimy
Foamy and hairy really kind of scary!

Oh my aching back, we are under attack
Soap scum ring, cut me some slack

Nuclear power ships have been created
But tell me how the soap scum ring can be annihilated?...

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But I do not want to be grimy
Wish I was a salamander, slimy
You’re a piglet. You should love mud said Dad.
Dirty soiled hooves and hair should not make you mad.

Let him be said Mom. He is his own best pig.
For her my identity was important, truly big.
Daddy backed off from his far away boy.
Giving this piglet a renewed sense of joy....

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pure as water flows
through my eyes light not passes
cloudy blurred opaque

smeared muddied grimy
this darken path so leads me
tween a rock and a hard 

space hazy extremes
through my eyes light not passes
cloudy blurred opaque

11/25/19
Opaque Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausin...

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Beautiful days filled with work, love, kids and pets
Stuffed to the brim and living without regrets
   Life's little, stubborn and grimy rocks
   Are neatly placed in a teeny, tiny box
Better to treasure our sweet and golden nuggets!

(Poem dedicated to those insignificant flea-like people who are, quite frankly, like grimy little 
rocks.)...

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rags
                        grimy, sodden,
            frustrating, frazzling, hording,
 tatter, wretchedness, opulences, luxuries,
          cha-chinging, amassing, owing, 
                    abundant, affluent, 
                               riches


Date written: 05/28/2023...

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someone should clean the kitchen
it is grimy, greasy,  there is a straw on the floor
a red straw which is way beyond a five second rule
I think it’s been there for two weeks now
I refuse to sweep, 
I am thirty-five years ahead of you I tell my husband
He is the one messing up the stove top 
there are bits of eggs there
where are mice when you need them?...

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Filthy, grimy, yellowed
Strange buttons
Not
The stuff of legends
Nor epic tales

Why did we come
With these so-called toes?
Perhaps to remind us
That the meek and seemingly
Irrelevant
Parts of us

Lead silently
Fragrantly
Proudly
Worthy of our love
If not
Our recognition

Filthy toes
Never quitting
Dainty entities
Loving us
Granting peace

Please kiss them
If possible...

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