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Slumlord Poems - Poems about Slumlord


Slumlords and Christians
...I When my landlord is a slumlord The sermons also mock God "There but for Grace go I" Helps see a plank in my eye II Here, no exposing of hypocrisy Makes a difference to men, women, me: Sex......

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Categories: slumlord, absence, africa, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Doctors Particularly Biomedical Engineers
...Doctors (particularly biomedical engineers)... really trolley train hard to keep track of patients Eye tell ya we (spuds) pulled up stakes after four yar and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr......

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Categories: slumlord, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Understand Where I Stood
...Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium ......

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Categories: slumlord, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo......

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Categories: slumlord, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pillar of Salt
...Once on Cecil Place fledgling flagstones freckled like summer faces in Septembers of taut cypress. Now neglected planters are urns for my young ashes, crypts gaping silent screams. Blistered d......

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Categories: slumlord, memory, time,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member He Once Said
...He Once Wrote How quickly the vanishing Where once shone the sun Now only skyscraper shade Horse drawn wagons Once parked below tenement smiles As rope baskets lowered with coins Sent back with app......

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Categories: slumlord, life,
Form: Free verse
Gone Before
...The sum of what has gone before Bulldozed throughout a slumlord block, Evacuated, emptied souls, Gutted, barrel, lock and stock. Then ring-fenced in a shield of steel, Buried in a foreign f......

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Categories: slumlord, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse

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