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Barflies Poems - Poems about Barflies


The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
... Is dance a metaphor for sex? You’d think so if you knew my ex (at least the barflies all believe she’s hoarding something up her sleeve). But what makes people want to dance? An aural frenzy? ......

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Categories: barflies, dance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Am Proud
...I am proud to have lived a long and varied life… proud to have found joy in most every day… and extremely proud at the diversity of friends I’ve made along the way. I am proud to have friends I’......

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Categories: barflies, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eyeballing the Bar Flies
...Chet lived creepily in the back of the tavern, hidden. No one bothered him. He lived vicariously through the others. The pretty barflies who flitted in chatting too loudly. Flipping their hair. H......

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Categories: barflies, longing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lemonade
... "Lemonade" Agency sent me to the territory of Lemonade dreams where secret rendezvous were disjointed and criminally spent shooting th......

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Categories: barflies, poets, psychological, word play,
Form: Free verse
Masters of Trickery
...Masters of Trickery alien ornithopters filled with pilgrims gliding in under a full moon foul smelling unwashed bumbling hubcap jockeys from artless galaxies firing bursts of compressed methan......

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Categories: barflies, how i feel, howl,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Chronicles of a Phonophobic
...**For Ruben O, My little Bro** (This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it was judged. I wonder if this would have receive......

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Categories: barflies, fear, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unborn Dreams
...Brooding barflies Choked on unborn dreams Never look up to observe the Charming full moon......

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Categories: barflies, angst, life,
Form: Prose
Now That's a Shame
...~~~ Tis a gladness found in sadness mostly pleasure wince of pain From an odor round the barroom none the boys could e'er explain Like a billowed line of washin' after gentle fallen rain Tis ......

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Categories: barflies, addiction, change, emotions, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Change For a Dollar?
...The only thing that exceeded the dinginess of this rat-hole bar was its stuffiness. I stopped in the place to make change for a parking meter just outside its door. God! It was awful in there, and ......

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Categories: barflies, people, placesold, old,
Form: Haiku
Neon Lights
...on the pulsing floor barflies wiggle and shimmy fear and pride~ shot drowned......

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Categories: barflies, adventure, life, peace, places,
Form: Haiku

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