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Straight Poems - Poems about Straight

Premium Member Setting the Record Straight
What killed the Cat was not ‘Curiosity’ ~ ‘Twas the ferocity of the Rat ...

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Categories: straight, animal, death, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mixed Drink Sets Raccoon Straight
Hawaii is the place, raccoon decided, loving the idea of course He sold his farm, plow, tractor, combine, goats, pigs and horse Ran to Hawaii to sit on a pink beach and enjoy the sand He said to his mixed drink, I have found the promised land! The mixed drink began laughing and could not stop. You have not seen...

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Categories: straight, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Chaos In My Heart
What if you are an emerald empath With the ability to feel cries or laughs That are like energy with a spiritual path That give insight unique to mental maths You may be of one fuchsia faith or maybe not But the soul is being bathed by another heart A two spirited person not evil nor innocent Feelings like a...

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Categories: straight, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Straight Path
No matter how much you may ever lead yourself astray. I will always be right beside you, leading you back to the way. No matter how you curve throughout life, know I am the way....

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Categories: straight, god, islamic, life, philosophy,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member straight talkin' whiskered man one stop 33
straight talkin’ whiskered man one stop 33 i walked into the bar room just to hear the sound pulled way back on the wooden stool and set my body down spilled vodka in my orange juice ‘twas flavor for my soul an’ a...

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Categories: straight, christian, depression, meaningful, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Words Straight up
I want conversations with writers and poets The wise the wacky the dark and the stoic I need to drink your words I fear my disease is chronic The name of my affliction I think it’s wordaholic Writers and poets Dig down to the deep Some are more honest Others have secrets to keep Some can herd cats or people like sheep If you tell...

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Categories: straight, how i feel, language,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Setting Ogden Nash Straight
Ogden Nash penned these two lines ‘How odd of God to choose the Jews’ My reply across the times ‘God would...

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Categories: straight, god, jewish, poets,
Form: Couplet
From the ravine to a straight road
Ravine: Oh road , you're on the straight and narrow Your path is so very shallow And the beings that pass by oh so mellow Everyone's a jolly good fellow Road: Dear ravine with your twists murky and deep The...

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Categories: straight, allegory, allusion, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bent is Strong, Straight is Weak
In nature, being adroit and straight is rare, It's curves and bends that fill the air. See rivers that twist, Trees bent to resist, For strength lies in being bent, not straight....

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Categories: straight, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Limerick
Going Straight For Good
Never to vices I put my best foot forward Since I got married....

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Categories: straight, dedication, engagement, marriage, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Setting the Record Straight
Every single Arab death in Gaza is attributable to HAMAS Aided and abetted by Iran Russia, and Mahmoud Abbas First Hamas butchers, rapes, and kidnaps ...

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Categories: straight, abuse, jewish, murder, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'm Just a Straight Man
My words written, by others, not truly understood But if you had ever lived my life then surely would Imagination put aside I didn’t imagine all the pain On a better day all the happiness I’ve ever gained Witnessed the changes for better, or for the worse There’re so many things out there I would reverse Growing up cursed myself as...

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Categories: straight, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines
Would that my poet's heart could fly, but an artist's anchor is his eye. I still see the magic in mere flesh, so a humble fate is mine... Your form shall be revered, my dear; I pray you never need to fear, the passions flowing deep within me as we struggle down the line... From fruits of base attraction, sweetest sensual transaction- God may grant...

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Categories: straight, children, love, parents, passion,
Form: Free verse
Hold Hands
Are we divided with deliberation, so split into good and bad, into black and white? Are we a racist creation? Is war a deliberation, seen by some as good, others as bad? Is it a mood that is our creation, put here deliberately, so to divide? Blood is red, whether skin is black or white. I gay, I straight, I somewhere in between. Yet all...

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Categories: straight, body, color, creation, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member straight out of the fifties
This frog is straight out of the fifties How can you tell? He is a beatnik. How so? He plays bongo drums. He has a lava lamp. I think they were from the sixties. And fringed vest jacket. The seventies, honey We stared at each other. How old do you think this frog is? Unsure, but he is dancing under a disco ball. Eighties I think. A well-rounded...

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Categories: straight, animal,
Form: Free verse

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