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Slurring Poems - Poems about Slurring

me, a racist

...Me a Racist
 

It was overcast this morning with fine rain
but as an offensive racist, I’m
I forced myself to get up at eight and take
a shower.  The water was cold no more gas
I called myself...
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Categories: slurring, brother, care, cute love,
Form: ABC

Slurring at the Elephant in the Room

...How many times have we met? I don't have thick skin
if I were to come under the needle of a vet;

barf would linger on clothes that aren't yet washed
down by the hose of a zoo attendant.

The s...
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Categories: slurring, drink,
Form: Free verse



Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She

...Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nab...
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Categories: slurring, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAllouette Contest Reject

...Drinking in a bar,
I was! I...were?...are? 
What's this 'fore my vision, blurred?
Say, she's kinda cute -
each fair attribute.
Soon my slurring words are heard, 

"You have lubbly hair!"
   <...
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Categories: slurring, drink, humor,
Form: Rhyme

the rotting of socialism

...The rotting of a socialist

I knew of a young man, a rebel who wanted
his country to adopt the Scandinavian model of socialism.
He was elected to great acclaim by the people,
he wanted taxes to ...
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Categories: slurring, africa, age, betrayal, birthday,
Form: Acrostic



Displaced in Misplaced Confidence

...If I should get punctured, laying leaking Crimson Tide, 
call me Deacon Blues as I slowly start to die.
If they miss me, take it easy.
All is as it should be.
It's best to cut losses, cut ties, c...
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Categories: slurring, celebrity, farm, fashion, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Penknob Kid

...PENKNOB: Is our household word that my kids euphemistically created of the two phrases that I purposely refrained its actual pronunciation by slurring PENKNOB: Phrase #1. Hands-Off/or don'...
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Categories: slurring, children, courage, cry, hurt,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberBeer Cheese Poetry Soup, Part Whatever

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Just add beer and abracadabra . . . 
Flavor galore! 
Just don’t add too much . . . 
Alcoholism is a disease. 
It should cook out though. Anyway, I hope it’s not too cheesy. 
Some of you are ...
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Categories: slurring, emotions,
Form: Free verse

CHAOTIC WOMAN

...Chaos ensues when she enters the venue
Deep-seated insecurities and childhood issues
She takes the beauty and makes it problematic
Chaos is a defining feature of her habits

She aughts be in pic...
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Categories: slurring, abuse, betrayal, conflict, crazy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGods plan

...In this life I've seen several people die.
It used to really haunt me and I would
ask God why.
The first time I was just a teen so many
years ago, I was in the middle of giving
a massage to a pe...
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Categories: slurring, death, god,
Form: Narrative

The Elfin Wars

...The war is ever-nearer to the boarders of this land
Seeping forward through the woods
Releasing acrid echoes of doom ahead on energetic tongues of stowaways
Lucky to survive their ordeal
Here the...
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Categories: slurring, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPlanning and Saving the Planet

...planning

The other day Anna created a Pinterest board of wedding ideas (Cheesy, she knows). “It’s time to hop on the bandwagon,” she said. She insists every other girl she’s aware of - ex...
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Categories: slurring, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAre You Slurring

...No, I haven’t any feta.
Why not? Came the reply
because I prefer chedda
Do you need to know why?

Chedda’s much betta
with burger and beer.
It makes no matta
if salad is near.

So, ...
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Categories: slurring, food, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberForgiveness

...When angst and hate my rancor stirred
Fuming indignation, reddening my face,
Emotions choked as muscles tightened,
Slurring my speech, abandoning grace;

And rational discourse then disappeared
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Categories: slurring, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRaining Again

...“This circus is falling…”

It’s circa 1997; I’m in Charlotte, NC
It’s a 13-week consulting gig, my longest ever
I come home every few weeks
Long days at the customer site
A hostile environment;...
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Categories: slurring, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse

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