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Gutters Poems - Poems about Gutters

bad legacies
... You left 1884 behind, 1961 came you misused it 1972, you were doomed 1990, it seemed like joy but no 2016 your people smiled in their death see the homeless, fatherless, widows now bury ......

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Categories: gutters, africa, anxiety, bereavement, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Repeat of Fate
... "The Repeat of Fate" Deep buried in a dead forest I hadn’t heard of before, Wycoller lies in ruins, barren no trees nor foliage remain, no tenant can be found, but h......

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Categories: gutters, betrayal, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Black Gutters, Painted Ceilings
...Between the black gutters and the painted ceilings, Dogs teach dolls how to die. Study the rot in my bicuspids, file down the calluses and watch the heartbeat Shake the skin like strychnine......

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Categories: gutters, abuse, addiction, corruption, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member UNMOCKED ALLEGORY: A MESSAGE IN AND FOR EACH DAY OF OURSTORY
...Granny said that all things have a seed and that every seed produces its own thing to be reaped: good or bad:- At the time, it was hers and the bible study lesson to be taught and remembered;......

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Categories: gutters, allegory, black african american,
Form: Free verse
A Silent Thunder
...The dark clouds pur, And there's nothing but blur. While the cool breeze whispers , The thunder awaits to strike. The grass murmurs, A big storm is coming. And the lightning has struck, The ......

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Categories: gutters, 10th grade, africa, cool,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Window Shakes
...The window shakes from rain fast-beating, From grey-torn clouds the sky fast-fleeting, Relentless vapours madly swirling, First autumn deluge earthwards hurling. The chimney howls from wind mad......

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Categories: gutters, autumn, bible, god, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Pre-Valentine’s Frenzy Of Chocolates, Hearts And Flowers
...Chocolates, hearts and flowers are ubiquitous in the markets or stores It is like a frenzy storm, like heavy raindrops rushing through the gutters I am told at the big mall, it’s like Chris......

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Categories: gutters, anti bullying, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
a Sunday eleven year ago
...Any Sunday 2015 Long is Sunday, empty streets a tunnel of silence, damp pavement, water trickles into gutters. Burnt matches, *** butts and yesterday's leave forms a rust brown dike, it bu......

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Categories: gutters, absence, boxing day , child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ghetto Pitbull
...I walk a lonely road as a ghetto pitbull/ With pride and honor, I'll always have a fistfull/ I don't take no bull from anyone or any spirit/ I never had no one to feed me, I eat off the land/ Bac......

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Categories: gutters, character, confidence, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conversations at the Areopagus
... (The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.) Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w......

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Categories: gutters, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Haggle of Hai-ku
...I went to heaven, but the weight of all the love... pulled me back to Earth! I can't remember, just one time without trouble... and no end in sight! The mystics suffer, naked upon tall mo......

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Categories: gutters, life,
Form: Haiku
Divide and Conquer
...We are living in times of great unrest. Which will put our metal to the test. Whether left or right, right or wrong. Why can't we dance to the same song? Society seems to have lost its vision. ......

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Categories: gutters, anger, brother, confusion, political,
Form: Rhyme
Season Change
...The house is colder now as autumn sheds its leaves the push-pull falls wildly beneath the plows along the edges of the gutters and eaves. perhaps because the house is emptied of all the......

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Categories: gutters, autumn, change,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Falling Leaves
...Clear the gutters in the street So that the winter rains may flow into the drains. Autumn has arrived. Leaves have fallen, and utilizing them as ground-cover is not an option. The Fall seaso......

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Categories: gutters, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Summer storm
...Strumming against rooftops overlapping gutters flooded sidewalks summers heat brings intense storm trees bow down as if to shelter the young and old from the storm who have dodged fierc......

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Categories: gutters, storm,
Form: Free verse

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