Slinging Poems

Itinerant

...I’ve worked in oil fields,
facing danger for good money,
I’ve sailed on the crab boats
where the oceans churn and freeze.
I’ve drove the long-haul truck,
through the ice and much up to my knees,...
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Categories: slinging, leaving, moving on, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDo You Value Your Sanity

...13 Things NEVER to Say to a Narcissist if You Value Your Sanity

1. "It's Not all about you"
      Telling one that line puts them on defense
       and quickly they will launch th...
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Categories: slinging, perspective,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberBleached

...Over six decades
slinging dirt around
reckless hearted one
over six decades 
having dirt slung at me
Time to get out the bleach
scrub things clean
Join me?...
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Categories: slinging, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA War Reprised

...My foe is back
Eight years later
Still tracking footprints
Still throwing shade
Chief hater
Slinging grenades in stacks
Click boom
Lurking like a swamp gator
Cold blooded
No tact
No soul
J...
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Categories: slinging, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLoretta Jane Swit

...Loretta Jane Swit
always possessed of great wit
wasn’t content slinging hash
and became head nurse in MASH
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Categories: slinging, tribute,
Form: Clerihew


Running for Public Office

...I wonder how addled your brain has to be
to want to suffer the slinging insults of buffoonery
Tv news showing how cartoonery 
reality has become

Each reporter is up to tomfoolery as they 
dig ...
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Categories: slinging, political,
Form: Free verse

KNOWING PEACE

...So much information
Slinging upon on our screen
Minds are reeling
For what it all means

Here's what I know...

Severe suffering
Incredible joy
Bearing weight
Delivered a boy

Sitting sil...
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Categories: slinging, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDivorcee Diatribe

...I'm still alive.
I'm singing like a swan 
And my beauty's impeccable.
Eight months divorced,
Spinnin' is my head
Now my kids are separable.
Workin' numerous jobs...
Now I sound like my Ex,
Oh...
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Categories: slinging, divorce,
Form: Free verse

Sneezing fit tests nasal septum

...Sneezing fit – tests nasal septum

The word Gesundheit was first used in English in 1914. It became popular in the United States due to the many German immigrants who moved there. Many Americans ma...
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Categories: slinging, 12th grade, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWord-Slinging

...The wordsmith’s art is a game of chance,
Where meanings dance and ideas trance.
A deft hand wields the pen with grace
A subtle symphony, a nimble chase.

From arcane whispers, and secrets told,
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Categories: slinging, emotions, feelings, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Slinging Stuff

...Slinging Stuff

The Book of Judges talks of slingers.
Seven hundred strong, all left- wingers.
The Bible tells us they were terribly feared.
They could split a hair on an enemy’s beard.

And b...
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Categories: slinging, bible, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Wicked and The Wick and my humble Abode

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Ripping nostalgia right out of my veins
Crippled curtains living in psycho domains
We demolished this city not just this city the World
I can't live slow enough to get to pretend
People go craz...
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Categories: slinging, betrayal, character, drink, fire,
Form: Ballad

Pity More Apt

...I’m tired of people 
slinging hash
and calling it Haute Cuisine

The Emperor naked
behind the mirror
where truth still reigns supreme

Waiting for accolades
pity more apt
so they again can ...
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Categories: slinging, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCapsizing the Costa Concordia

...Capsizing the Costa Concordia

Divers wreathe silently through
the submerged corridors of a 
140,000-ton wreck. Little fish
dark haphazardly through
the juxtaposition of tilted ballroom,
grani...
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Categories: slinging, sea,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberKundalini Rising

...
 The Kundalini Is Rising, now I'm Flying High on Wings Of Wisdom
 Full Power Up On The Chrism,
 Ever-Upward in Fully Blazoned Life
 Fear No Evil, Fear The Regal Like....
 I AM Spirit, I AM Aliv...
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Categories: slinging, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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