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Sooty Poems - Poems about Sooty

Premium Member Love
...Love Unrequested rule, extreme desire Unfair play, selfish will of out of life Drowning, sooty air, life killed by Wants a stable existence with no love for life air love ......

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Categories: sooty, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Praisin' Kringle
... Praisin' Kringle, jolly Nick for last minute Christmas smashed-torn gifts. Cause pop-pop suspects dad's stuck again, inside the sooty chimney. ......

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Categories: sooty, childhood, christmas, family, giggle,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Santa Pause
... ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all was quiet Till a very loud noise woke me, sounding like a riot I put on my fluffy slippers and creep down the stairs The lounge door is open, ......

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Categories: sooty, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Venice door
...That's the Venice door showered with beauty! Where loneliness is daily on duty, By its side, a small pool just sailed two boats, The occupants are most probably ghosts, If they're humans, they mu......

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Categories: sooty, beauty, boat, cute, flower,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Mary Had a Little Lamb - Alt Version
...Mary had a little lamb. He stepped into some soot, and everywhere that d**n lamb went his sooty foot he put. He followed her to school one day, and this I must confess: He got into the classr......

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Categories: sooty, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member small things
... sun … glints off sweaty trickles as they plop … plop … little lad’s littler fingers tickling a tide pool’s papery face things of mysterious intention, darting there to here to there … wide......

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Categories: sooty, analogy, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acting on Impulse
...Friendships, wordy scripts, cameras, microphones and venue blips. Call security, no need to be shirty, let's go again.. scene five, take thirty. Action. Cut. Time for tea. The bar is closed but coffe......

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Categories: sooty, film, friendship, home, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
CLEAN AIR
...CLEAN AIR Only a few now recall the London smogs The early Fifties, I think it may have been When a man used to walk ahead of a bus As schoolkids, it was a strange time for us Almost every day......

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Categories: sooty, age, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Walk down the Tunnel
... “Darkness does embalm; All things, getting calm, Produce an eerie feeling; Can it serve with a healing?” “Aye, aye, sure, sure! Such feelings do us lure, To approach its end.” “Can we reac......

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Categories: sooty, allegory, atheist, conflict, endurance,
Form: Quatrain
Where I'm From
...I am from glass globes of roses, from Gardenias and Gerbers. I am from dust floating in the air, caught in winter sun. I am from lilacs that can't be contained, whose fragrance colours early s......

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Categories: sooty, family, i am,
Form: Free verse
A Dying Winter
... It was a harsh, hard going season. “It’s a dying winter, lad,” he said, crunching words around, a gnawed pipe stem. Briefly embers sought a place to disappear. Cinder gray eyes, set deep in......

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Categories: sooty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The language of poetry has left me
...When the river of poetry has dried Like parched clouds waiting for warmth When the rain beats down on emptiness The god of rain demands to be penned I pour myself a glass of wet wine An offer......

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Categories: sooty, addiction, god, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Winter Slumber
...Winter whirling anxiety upon silent, shadows light sleeping from dawn to dusk. Sky smudged in a raven haze, mist lining paths with a silver shade. The emerald sea freezes like a pastel ice ring r......

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Categories: sooty, anger, anxiety, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Corpse of a Hissing Cat
...Sooty black and thin boned, velvet almost, but stringy. Hard to define the shape of a hissing cat that was so soon alive and kicking, but now lies dead on my neighbor's lawn. I would watch i......

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Categories: sooty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gaze Into Space
... Written: November 21, 2023 _________________________________________ Amid the shooting stars, there is a lot of zeal While satellites start spinning in various ordeals ......

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Categories: sooty, analogy, appreciation, space,
Form: Rhyme

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