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Slews Poems - Poems about Slews


Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version

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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?

Mister rich lister Blister

Sinister Mandarin Minister


Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman

Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem

Podium pandemonium
 
Needs Imodium....
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Categories: slews, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse

Hard Landing

...It descended hard and hot -
must have been a rookie,
flaps oscillating mightily
correcting overcorrections,
undercarriage lowered and high angled
wings up and wide
spread out for maximum decele...
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Categories: slews, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Urban Blight

...The railroad tracks pass close to streets
Where residents reside
And from the train, I gazed at views
The windows did provide.

Suburban homes soon segued
Into urban tracks of land
Where popul...
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Categories: slews, city, tree,
Form: Rhyme

The Mad Dance

...The klaxon sounds and off we do scurry
Up to the gun house we head in a hurry

Through narrow p-ways and up noisy stairs
We pass each other with far away glares

What threat to meet, all do won...
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Categories: slews, history, war,
Form: Rhyme

Mail

...What is it today?
Slews of pleas for more dollars. 
Poor—always with us....
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Categories: slews, society
Form: Haiku



Signal Event Between Man and Woman

...SJGNAL EVENT BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN


The eyes have it
As the trolley slews  past the bread display
At first glance it may  be accidental
Testing  it at the delicatessen
Inconclusive but  cauti...
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Categories: slews, allegory
Form: Free verse

When the Mournful Sky Cries White Rain

...When the world succumbs to the kiss of cold
and a numbing gale is a breath away,
on her knees she weeps; for the truth be told,
there will be soft light on the hills today.

Cool clouds ...
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Categories: slews, nature, sea, seasons
Form: Ballad

Harried Hurry

...Slipping  and sliding along
Downhill days of later life
Rushing headlong madly
With nought  to do I think of you
Keeping busy haphazardly sadly 
Frantic antics slowed reactions
Thoughts awry wi...
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Categories: slews, passion, time,
Form: I do not know?

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