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Slugging Poems - Poems about Slugging

Premium MemberHumorous to me and Maybe Only me

...Was it an argument
A scrimmage
A scuffle
A hair-pulling jaw-slugging fight
Or an all-out brawl?

Let’s ask the three dead people down the hall....
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Categories: slugging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

I leave buying food at the market to the spouse

...I leave buying food at the market to the spouse...

one helluva comparative
humdinger savvy shopper,
who can rattle off the best buy
for most any given item,
at the drop of a hat
analogous to ...
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Categories: slugging, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberStricken

...You start
the poem
but cannot end it
insoluble through teared eyes
A whipping wrecking ball swung, slugging your breast
striking a sharp chord of melancholy thought hidden
a random book, a rand...
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Categories: slugging, memory,
Form: Suzette Prime

Slugging it Out

...Crypto beasts once roamed the earth
with all the other regular monsters.

Early man was still a fish-like slug,
which was a good thing,
because the fish-like slug was itself,
only slowly evolvi...
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Categories: slugging, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Corner

...Twelve rounds of excitement
Two rivals smiling in the middle of enchantment

The bell rang...
Both fighters were wild
Two rough hands still mild
The bell rang again -- end of first round.

Se...
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Categories: slugging, boxing day , courage,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberPeople People People

...Those with time to the brink are on the irk.
Sincere toadies do not cast magic shirk.
People who have also been hugely hurt.
People tranced with the act of a flirt.

 Firmly, it i...
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Categories: slugging, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Ideas Are Out of Control

...I have time to do something and I have to roll my eyes.
Because there are sixteen ideas arguing among themselves.
If they could ever agree, it would be a miracle.
They are trying to outshout each ...
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Categories: slugging, muse,
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member2021 First Saturday In May

...Derek  

Will you be able to bear it?  

First weekend in May  

And who the Yankees will play, 

Bringing slugging Louisville woods  

Tigers score if they could.  

In the Bronx  

Bo...
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Categories: slugging, america, celebrity, horse, race,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Peaceful Valley Sunday----Potd---

...This is where I indeed, do live!
With many churches, to support and which to give.  

Murder is a most rare occurrence here.
No riots, no drunks, walking about, slugging down a beer.

Trees are...
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Categories: slugging, imagery,
Form: Couplet

Holes In His Boots

...He’s got holes in his boots 
and he’s wearing tattered old jeans
The state of his worn-out clothes
borders on obscene
He hasn’t had a home-cooked meal
in more than a year
You’re just too busy g...
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Categories: slugging, absence, appreciation, betrayal, break
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberOperation Barbarossa

...Operation Barbarossa 
the panzers start to roll,
Breaking out from Poland’s Baltic,
towards Sevastopol, 
Ten million soldiers strong,
go goose-stepping east,
The Fuhrer’s Wehrmacht, 
alongside...
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Categories: slugging, allegory, allusion, america, world
Form: Rhyme

To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I

...General Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.

Instead he faced a ...
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Categories: slugging, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberZombies Ate My Christmas Guests

...Zombies ate my Christmas guests
Oh Lord you should have seen it
Don't know what the cops will think
But the neighbors won't believe it

Granny dodged and moved so quick
She ran like Herschel Wa...
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Categories: slugging, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

On Monmouth's Fields, Part Ii

......He reformed the routing patriots,
formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill,
brought in General Knox and the artillery,
commanding the mass through sheer force of will.

He needed to buy time...
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Categories: slugging, america, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Epic

Rainy Day

...Drizzling down from irate clouds
Slugging the streets with force
But like a chirpy bird
A joy these sounds enforce

Outside the kids rejoice
As I reminisced my past
How long did those days las...
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Categories: slugging, childhood, rain,
Form: Free verse

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