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Beat Poems - Poems about Beat

Premium Member Tuesdays' nights
was the whiskey and the jazz playing On too many black nights with too Many lonely women and not a poem Between them How many times can you run From the shadow of the voices that Surround you Beating like drums in the darkness Tasting more of your flesh each time Not leaving enough for a man to breathe No way for a man to...

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Categories: beat, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THUNDERING HEART RAINING
RAINING HEARTBEAT My supreme heartbeat. echoing sweet thunder, as its cloud, raindrops love:-...

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Categories: beat, allegory,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member And the Beat Moved On
What happened to the old ‘Do-wop’ piano triplets and ‘bop-she-bop’ Romantic ballads juke-box kissed disco nights now wrapped in mist Brian...

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Categories: beat, celebrity, moving on, music,
Form: Couplet
The Great Composer
We hear the music of life And we are compelled to dance forever We dance to the lyrics Of falling snowflakes And to the rhythm Of swaying trees We dance to the harmony Of birds in flight for winter And to the song Of the honey bee queen We dance to the tempo Of deer frolicking in the meadows And to the count Of the woodpecker’s aim We dance...

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Categories: beat, adventure, allegory, appreciation, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member LATE IN THE EVENING
And I'm concerned, afraid, got the railroad crossing blues and the jazz that plays so low and desolation looms like the ghost of Christmas past/ And the band wraps up and it's time to go home but the blues is still crawling around inside my head like desolation and the lone watchman/on the peak is...

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Categories: beat, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse



To err is human to forgive is divine
2015.4.13 @ 15:08:03 From time to time, I believed you had unintentionally caused me harm. I expressed and complained about them, Then I forgave, forgot and moved on. My favourite number was three, I believed I did three big favours for you. I also travelled with you three tourist places. I always visit historic towns and country side During winter and...

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Categories: beat, appreciation, april, goodbye, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You were just a heart, an organ that beat enough
You were just a heart, an organ that beat enough, to feel the need to raise a wall of stone, a fortress around which the wind whispers forgotten memories, and when the rain sheds its tears over the cold stones, you remember you were also flesh, a body that felt enough, to wear an armor of steel, gleaming under the...

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Categories: beat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WALLS
Four beige walls Streaked with yellow tar Of too many smokes Kerouac waiting with Brautigan on shelf Once the mongrel beat Long forgotten And the jazz plays cymbals taps flare Chaka boom chaka boom chaka boom While 88's like crystal wail To the beat baby babe To the beat On the road to desolation The vision spoke Looking through doorways at mountains The jack,man, the jack Had this...

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Categories: beat, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
dreams heart beat
Like pink and glass stairing up and down Your glance a lovely heart slowly pulse beats stronger smile come closer I hurt when I cant pull You under me...

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Categories: beat, beautiful, desire,
Form: Free verse
Not The First Time
Not the First Time By Cathrin Stuart Late at night, you came home drunk Not the first time I heard you and Mommy talking Not the first time You came and pulled me out of bed by the hair Not the first time You beat me in the passage until I bled Not the first time I was not allowed to cry, mop up...

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Categories: beat, anxiety, child abuse, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Final Beat
He sat in the street, reaching out for support. He did not shout or sing or beg. He looked and smiled and shivered, shaking in his cardboard bed. The snow came down, December time, cascading softly through the air. But winter’s chill brings ringing bells— no space for him, no mercy there. No warmth tonight, no place to go, the shutters down, the bitter...

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Categories: beat, character, christmas, death, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The beat goes on
Since you have been gone A lot of water has passed under the bridge A mixed bag of events have occurred Leaving behind earth-shaking calamities Difficult to quantify As confusion like whirlwind Keeps spreading and threatening The very fabric of National Cohesion Nobody knows what to believe anymore As looters of our commonwealth Keep spewing...

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Categories: beat, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member when teachers could beat you
Concept was fuzzy, ill-defined, unclear I accidentally said this with the teacher near In the days when she could beat my rear I had a horrific time in school that year...

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Categories: beat, teacher,
Form: Monorhyme
Soul Beat
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Categories: beat, america, appreciation, birth, creation,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member THE BEAT POETS BEAT
THE BEAT POETS BEAT In the heart of San Francisco, Beat poet and publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore shines bright, where words dance like shadows and the Beat poets ignite the night/ October 7, 1955 history takes a breath and five souls step onto the stage at Gallery Six, defying convention, flirting with death/ Allen Ginsberg, with...

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Categories: beat, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

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