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Short Streetwise Poems

Short Streetwise Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Streetwise by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Streetwise by length and keyword.


A Streetwise
He who's streetwise 
can fool people twice.

Volodymyr Knyr
2017...

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Categories: streetwise, men, people,
Form: Couplet



Pedestrians Only.
Red traffic light.
zebra stripes in black and white
  Streetwise birds crossing.



I actually witnessed this event. Two little birds crossing with pedestrians.It was an
amazing sight....

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Categories: streetwise, animals,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Yarn
When asked
The traffic rider
That streetwise acrobat
How
He knew without a prior
When a driver would do that
This performer replied
Spinning
With some pattern recognition
After long
Is spun
Into chaos intuition...

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Categories: streetwise, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In a contest between the stupid and the smart
In a contest between the stupid and the smart,
the stupid, at first, didn't really know where to start.
But after a while 
of applying streetwise craftiness and guile,
in the contest between the stupid and the smart ~
the two were actually not that far apart.
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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: streetwise, education, humor, prejudice, smart, society,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ruckus At Clyde's Bar
Big fight
Last night

Clyde's Bar
Bizzare

Tough guys
Streetwise

Much brew
Fists flew

Thrown chairs
Pulled hairs

Black eyes
Loud cries

One bloke
Nose broke

Heads bashed
Teeth trashed

Knives slashed
Pecs gashed

Cops came
To tame

Powwow
Peace now

All's well
That's swell

Great fight
Last night


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Categories: streetwise, humorous,
Form: Footle



To An Inadequate Father
Don’t your daughter’s skin
Attack with a pin
Nor her blushing wall
Hit for an amusing fall…

And don’t your vibrant son
Leave in improvident sun:
Now playfully moving clockwise
If he ventures out, that’s streetwise!

Perhaps, you’ve your Good Head
Forced to forget what you’d read:
For what a bloke has succeeded to obtain
He should at all costs guardedly retain....

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Categories: streetwise, care, family, father son, senses, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination Waits
Plain brick walls
Wait for clinking cans of spray paint
To color in streetwise notions
Beyond the naked eye

Quiet strings of violins
Wait for hands to draw across bows
Or play pizzicato melodies
Beyond the well-trained ear

Blank pages
Wait for clever pens
To write stories and verses
Beyond the bare mind

Sparks of star light
Wait for a ready lifeforce
To ignite a hellmouth fire 
Beyond the ordinary self

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Categories: streetwise, art, imagination,
Form: Imagism

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