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Premium Member Skid Row
Horrific attributes 
Calamities all around 
Skid row broken dreams
Roughest atmosphere 
A distorted ambiance 
Hear the jeers of morbid souls...

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Categories: on skid row, character, dark, dream,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Jack's Somber Notes
Jack's Somber Notes

jack fiddles life away on his thumbs
the little digits beating like drums
over loaf he brow
buttering skid row
from his jam he's awaits for crumbs

connie pachecho

2/7/2018...

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Categories: on skid row, lonely, music, sad,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member From Rags To Riches
A pauper begs at the town gate
and sets, each day, a date with fate.
He harbours dreams where riches flow
but morning finds him on skid row.

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Killing With an Epigram Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Margarita Lillico
    Placed 2nd
28th April, 2022...

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Categories: on skid row, desire, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Hotel Alley
Skid row bums
Dress for no occasion,
Refuse raiders
Need no reservations.

Drug-addicted tenants
Beg for coins and candy,
Deadbeat derelicts
Reside at Hotel Alley.

Gutter renters
Lounge against brick walls,
Vagrant paupers
Rise to no wake-up calls.

Psychotic transients
Cruise dim lit corners
Wayward sons
Fight without honor....

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Categories: on skid row, sad
Form: I do not know?
Shiny City
All the good old things replaced by the shiny new,
But when does shiny new become a has been?
Things of depth and things of worth trashed because you can.
It all looks so good now and you look so smug but time turns,
Shiny new city with sparkling towers will fade,
It's time will run, it's autumn will come,
Then back to skid row, ashes to ashes, dust to dust....

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Categories: on skid row, city, places, social, society, urban,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gum
If my taste starts to fade, stick around I'm in style
Evergreen, Peppermint, did I just see you smile?
Chew my wad, blow a bubble
Be minty fresh on the double
I am gum, chew on that for a while

I please and abide like your loyal chum
Then you spit me out like a skid row bum
But chew me at your pleasure
I'm a tried-and-true treasure
I am comfort, I am delight, I am gum!...

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Categories: on skid row, humor,
Form: Personification
Who Is Your Neighbor
September sun beats a downtown hotel,
For skid row children the heat is hell.

Mother drugged and father out to score,
Their children play alone, on the lobby floor.

They play with no one watching them,
Growing up without roots or stem.

Outsiders of the swollen hotel lobby,
Don't show up, its just not their hobby.

Their crimes will soon pay the price,
Parent's example leads only to vice.

9/9/2015...

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Categories: on skid row, absence, lost love, drug,
Form: Couplet
Failures Hiding Place
Failures` hiding place 

I have done a lot of work even been an officer
With shiny buttons but never succeeded in the world
Of practical work ended up on my personal skid-row 
Sleeping rough people look at you with contempt some
Ignore you other shouts hurtful remarks 
Poetry is a good place for losers of the race here they
Dream, write words on paper build a shiny citadel and
Have the key to unlocking wonders....

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Categories: on skid row, chicago, city, class, community,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Rowdy Prevail
I'm wide awake, listening to the roar. My musings become a glowing rainbow. I lie pique designing vile dreams offshore.  I dream of an ominous sky shadow Away from the ad nauseam skid row. As political cases broach their peak. To load airwaves with the rowdy prevail  Irritating and feeble header seek  While I slept, I grasped the heaven exhale Moans were roundly rejected by the meek
Written: February 1st 2022...

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Categories: on skid row, anti bullying, confusion, freedom, introspection, onomatopoeia, political,
Form: Dizain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things