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Street Corner Poems - Poems about Street Corner


Premium Member Reflections On a Street Corner
In an hour a thousand pass Doctors, lawyers, truck drivers Small and fat, A straggly cat. Six ladies in elegant furs Two little boys chasing curs A tottery, old man with a cane The same scraggly cat again. The local newsboy laden down Big and small, A runaway ball, The corner cop awaiting the strike Five o'clock, the rush hour jam Wondering who I am What I'm doing--...

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Categories: street corner, perspective, places,
Form: Rhyme
Street Corner Secrets
Pssst ... hey, kid! I got some gold watches for sell Prices so cheap, that you can’t tell Some deals are so sweet, that those secrets you gotta keep Nobody has to know, it’s just between me and you ... Keep it on the down-low what you do What’s my name you ask, well, that’s the thing You never want Five-0 to jam you...

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Categories: street corner, business, humorous, satire, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse



Death On the Street Corner
The lightning, it was over-bright and death came to the street corner. Eyes held fright in the rainy night the lightning, it was over-bright. Quickly done in flash of a light knife crossed the heart without warner The lightning, it was over-bright and death came to the street corner....

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Categories: street corner, death, murder,
Form: Triolet
In a Street Corner
in a street corner a moll's breasts do carry milk ...

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Categories: street corner, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Bronx Street Corner
she became a new york city street corner fixture acted like its the only place to be acted like its the place for the persecutor to begin after all all men are guilty none are forgiven so she painted false hearted judges to prop up her proposition to subvert the natural truth she lied when it came down to the last hours but i was...

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Categories: street corner, anger, angst, conflict, recovery
Form: Imagism



Street Corner Bums
FROM CITY TO TOWNS and around they walk up and down some drink wink and stink theyer black white other too and some STREET CORNER BUMS...

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Categories: street corner, confusion, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Street Corner Bums
theyer jerks always be alert stay awake theyer out to take and some i call STREET CORNER BUMS...

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Categories: street corner, education,
Form: Light Verse

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