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Spruced Up Poems - Poems about Spruced Up

Pareidolia

...It was all about a grim,
Foggy, smoggy, old Thursday night
In Hithergreen,
London’s belching south,
Below Europe’s icy, dark trees and
In the silence of grieving mornings . . .
Bulbous clouds b...
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Categories: spruced up, psychological, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membertoxic masculinity - Igor needs a bigger lab VII

...Hillbilly VP JD Vance
Surely hails from bad circumstance
Though spruced up by Yale
He acts much too male
To hide the wee lance in his pants


Note: Many other misogynists share this issue (DT,...
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Categories: spruced up, animal, gender, men, mental
Form: Limerick



Premium Memberreturning home

...the old mill reposes in the middle of the peppered autumn trees
spruced up under the jurisdiction of golden, yellow, red, maples
the scene cannot be captured in a photograph, it is soul searing
My...
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Categories: spruced up, home,
Form: Narrative

Still stunned with disbelief

...Still stunned with disbelief...

that our apartment unit B44
received thumbs up
meaning that we passed
the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection
three days ago - May 28th, 2024.

About a ...
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Categories: spruced up, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBehind the wall

...The coffee shops stand by the canal
Beautiful scenery and in flannels
All spruced up to put on the show
How wealthy they are we don't need to know

Behind the wall is a back street ginnel
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Categories: spruced up, analogy, discrimination, drink, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLife-Cycles

...In K-5, K-8 or K-12 is drained
    the curiosity from eager brains

  Then off to college most folks go
    where Truth is disseminated from Moscow

  A nursing home's a spruced-up jail
    fr...
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Categories: spruced up, life, old, school, work,
Form: Couplet

National Poetry Day 2016

...National Poetry Day is over
Over two hours on the stage.
That's one hellova long time
For one of my advancing age.
This is the Poetry city.
The talent just abounds,
Mixing in the bars and pubs
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Categories: spruced up, art, celebration, culture, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPretty Little Bluebird

...Bluebird…pretty little bluebird, see

all the budding Spring…beautiful 

chiming of melody and spruced up

leaves, shiny and thriving, dewdrop

tingling. Bluebird, come and see -

give ...
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Categories: spruced up, bird, spring,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSatisfied With My Revisions

...Imagination reminds me of things I dare not remember
No idea if they happened or not
Certainly not swirling in pinks and oranges
the way I wanted things to do, amid black and white stripes
I was ...
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Categories: spruced up, word play,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat If She Only Knew

...And Mama pins laundered sheets on the clothesline
Raising her creamy arms with a hum,
Gentle against  tainted bricks  of our wall
Right in front of this  grassy yard…
My velvet dress  all spruced...
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Categories: spruced up, 5th grade, heartbreak, memory,
Form: Free verse

Poles Apart

...A polar bear seeking a mate
Spruced up his fur coat for a date.
Alas, his sweetheart
Had drifted apart
For sadly, he'd left it too late!

19.02.19

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Categories: spruced up, environment,
Form: Light Verse

Home Improvement

...It's easy to do nothing,
As the years pass, to your house.
"It looks okay" - a maxim
Many homeowners espouse.

But if, at last, the motivation
Strikes and you proceed, 
You may discover some i...
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Categories: spruced up, house,
Form: Rhyme

Marionette

...To be this
or that
some romantic folly
imaginary self
escaping

But what is
me

An addict of breathing
addicted to a turn about routine
an anchor of habits
a very sure thing

Or closed ...
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Categories: spruced up, i am, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Gift of Christmas Magic

...Christmas as a kid
Oh, how blessed I have been
To have had such a childhood!
So rife with wonderful Christmas memories

That they tumble in my mind like needles from an evergreen ...
Making...
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Categories: spruced up, childhood, christmas, family, giving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind

...Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)...
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Categories: spruced up, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse

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