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Slacked Poems - Poems about Slacked

Premium MemberMy Cousin Paul

...He is a lallapaloosa, a Jim-dandy
But crafty and wise, so he came in handy
He could do electrical work and carpentry
Worked all day, never slacked off at three
He’s a good boy, his mother said to...
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Categories: slacked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Older Sibling

...People who are special.

We…

Are people who have a younger sibling.

My sister…

Who I watched and cheered graciously, because she is my best friend.

Or at least, she is nice to me.

Wa...
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Categories: slacked, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



The Glorifying Hours of Sadness

...The pages laid beneath her
With imprints of her shed smiles
Cause they are still laughing in the grey flashes
But nobody halts the time ,it just dashes.

Now, the flickering candles dry up her w...
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Categories: slacked, 12th grade, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

A Business Man Talks

...Please" A Big No!"to contract 
That would Shaolin kicks attract,
From a modest aim detract;
Flow of air slow down in tract.

"No"to cheques you never checked;
Much like grains hens never pecked...
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Categories: slacked, business, care, cry, money,
Form: Rhyme

Life's Lessons By An Old Granny

..."Oh, hi",said an old granny, 
Her ashen face lit up with a wide smile, 
I greeted her back but with melancholy, 
As I was feeling low for quite a while. 


She instantly asked, "What's wrong, m...
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Categories: slacked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Paying Your Tithe

...A time-tested spiritual banking,
Higher and higher one goes in ranking,
Slammed doors sweetly unlocking,
Hindering barriers unblocking…

From the wall one has been flung
And like a bag on a peg...
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Categories: slacked, dream, money, religion, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAct of God

...The sky blackened in the west about sundown
Bringing a sudden specter of terror, to my surprise,
Like the chill that grips you when you hear gunshots
Up the block.  Slacked mouth and wide-opened e...
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Categories: slacked, anxiety, fear, storm,
Form: Imagism

I'Ve Been Around

...Life has been normal and strange, exciting and lame
Fought, begged, pleaded. Just to play the game
Wished and dreamed of fortune and fame
Searched for an escape from all the pain
I’ve been good, ...
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Categories: slacked, addiction, appreciation, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOut On Cat Day

...tonight on the back deck
the cat laid in my lap
while rain poured like heck
and lightning's thunder clapped

as bolts sky-cracks wrecked
the darkness was in color wrapped
all round and the rai...
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Categories: slacked, adventure, appreciation, cat, storm,
Form: Free verse

Blood Eyes

...A Poem by Gideon Idudje.O

blood eyes

Though my eyes are pouring
Yet I see very c l e a r l y.
Though thought make me heart scream
Still am full of strength,
Like the relay just ...
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Categories: slacked, blue, depression, fate, fear,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberNights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze

...(Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand)
POEM 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
POEM 3. Yet A Cure Within L...
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Categories: slacked, art, best friend, friend,
Form: Sonnet

The Re-Sculpted Garden

...Far from the surging crowd,the aesthetic mass ever loved
For,some fascinated to drilling mud,more satiated with coconut ground
Most elated admiring flowering buds,all hailed for herbs, spices,Salmo...
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Categories: slacked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Carpe Diem

Premium MemberThe Gardener and the Gunshop Owner

...Degenerative issues for the gunshop owner
are also regenerative opportunities from the gardener.

Lack of civil civics lessons slacked 
for small persons made of evil
is also opportunity to lear...
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Categories: slacked, allegory, earth, evil, health,
Form: Political Verse

Unbelievably

...I don't  believe this­ how could it be?
The love of my life ­just walked out on me
Now is when the hear­tbreak comes to call
Unbelievably In an i­nstant I just lost it­ All

Unsure whether to sc...
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Categories: slacked, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

Wasted Years

...When I was young, I had a dream
and saw life in a different perspective.
I saw life as a park,
where I could just come, play and go.
I thought time was slow
so I slacked and relaxed.
I had a dr...
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Categories: slacked, depression, hurt, time, perspective,
Form: I do not know?

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