Akron Poems - Poems about Akron

...A mother left crying alone in her pew Begging the Lord for a miracle new … The only thing he was good at was being bad Bus stations train stations corn maidens in drag He came a......Read the rest...

...Hopped a rattler out of Akron. Rode the high end all the way. On the Erie-Lackawanna, Made North Jersey by next day. Between a bottle and a biscuit, And that’s all I’m gonna say. ‘Twas a rude......Read the rest...

...Footprints through his garden. My uncle and I once played tag amongst his greenery; With muddied shoes and fear getting the best of me Surprisingly, I had shaken my head yes when he asked......Read the rest...

... once a parrot named kevin wanted to fly to heaven so he flew and flew but when out of view was forced to land in akron. ......Read the rest...

...Topic of Conversation (Heroic Couplet) Say what you want about the man in black You think he cares about that, he got stacks. Akron Ohio was his home sweet home LeBron is the man dunking on ......Read the rest...

...This poem wants to make a change . . . To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968. To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words “By any means necessary” To sit in at a lunch count......Read the rest...

... From the Ohio River to the Great Lake Erie. If they come from Cleveland, or south in Cincinnati, these talented persons’ works are the ones we should see. They have written some of this site......Read the rest...

...BUT ESPECIALLY EAST LANSING Cell phone with a woodywoodpecker ringtone; Russian style of guitar-playing with strummed beats; Regina-Saskatoon red-eye with “collapsible” seats; Getting a tick......Read the rest...

...GOING BACK It was not an endearing place, a storybook place With little cottages and Loaded fruit trees from which apples could be casually filched, Nor were there sparkling streams ......Read the rest...

...ENGLAND England is a changing country Not the place I left thirty five years ago. Oh yes, they still have Ann Hathaway’s Cottage, And Buckingham Palace, and even fish-and-chips. But it’s a......Read the rest...