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Tiki Poems - Poems about Tiki

Premium Member A Little West Indian River History
..."There's a river meandering through the mind," older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away from a warring Englishman behind absconding by canoe ......

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Categories: tiki, city, history, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
Climate Unchanged
...Wind lashed fronds whip a neck twisting air. Florida bleeds green. A large woman in a rainbow muumuu, a toy poodle pushed tightly into her folds wades into the storm determined to bring a hurric......

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Categories: tiki, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Democracy Almost Died
...The faith in our Democracy Was almost lost most shamefully, When losers made their foolish claims And railed against imagined blames. The lap dog trogs obeyed the call To challenge what was cl......

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Categories: tiki, angst, betrayal, conflict, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member another day
...mountains tumble across the horizon twisting the last splinters of warmth through heavy hanging gray soup listless lifeless endless sigh dogs roll over mown grass clinking ice gentle......

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Categories: tiki, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member rooftop
...Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get the freshest commentary about cu......

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Categories: tiki, night, school, student,
Form: Free verse



Mandate
...Is it truth, is it fruit, unspoiled? Filtered news under play kitchen hard boil? Unproofed, (by the look of empty pews); But filled with spoofs of slogan-bringers ......

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Categories: tiki, art,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Dogs
...the sea is high and running sails are fighting for the shore skippers in their shrimp boats are hauling in blow wind blow none of us are sailors here we are washed up on this Tiki bar mugs f......

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Categories: tiki, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Where the Ice Runs Hot
...Slow flames under the blacktop, simmer-ghost rise from the sloughing road. Rubber scorches its skin shedding blackened snakes. It's a hot day, creeping turtles fill pot-holes with their ho......

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Categories: tiki, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tea Time In the Desert
...Tea time in the desert, a stellar hibiscus moment; the freedom of passionate dreams build to a crescendo amid starlight reverie. A release of stress and trauma, is a sip of love from the u......

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Categories: tiki, appreciation, drink, peace, poems,
Form: Free verse
Bikini Blues
...On Saturday night in Waikiki The teenagers turn rather freaky Though blue as a smurf They all love to surf Like a Kahanamoku tiki!......

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Categories: tiki, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Diary of a Child In Trinidad
...I remember the land of drums I was born bedded beneath great hanging nets; the sound of the conch and the horn. My blue suitcase filled with stuff, the red tricycle a......

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Categories: tiki, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Beach Reflections
...The beach ran into the surf exposing her body, showcasing a creature heavier than the vogue yet graceful in the swell and spume, more adapted and fluent than the leaner more angularly lank ideal......

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Categories: tiki, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wayne Weigh-In
...If you heard a Soup Censor holler They just saw a Cook Islands dollar Allowing for windage That Tiki appendage* Could incite a 9-1-1 caller! * Gershon-approved, i.e., circumcised Is th......

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Categories: tiki, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Grand Uncle Mombo
...Beachfront resort, gloriously soothing palms, a sunlit heavenly warm loving paradise. Vacation dream, enhanced by sweet friendship of Grandma Lil, who gives advice. That does not have to be followe......

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Categories: tiki, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Tongue Tied With a Tiki
...Tongue Tied with A Tiki What I did was to take off my tiny tiki, And what is left on body was my bikini, Told by tone, A party thrown On an island where men are a Meany. Jim Horn......

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Categories: tiki, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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