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Albany Poems - Poems about Albany

The Helderbergs
...The trails runs the edge for several miles, a clifftop walk, it is no great trial, atop a long precipice of limestone, where big, black vultures soar, and make their home, a rugged wall, by ancie......

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Categories: albany, america, appreciation, imagery, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
A short ALOFT
...I see you in Albany yet you pull away from the call aloft to all those that care Gone are the fields once mellow blue that curved and glided, that tears at your heart Try to dream beneath......

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Categories: albany, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Jack of Hearts
... ~~~~~ The players were hangin’ ‘round but were all headin’ for a fall, the room was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall. The curfew had been......

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Categories: albany, parody, song,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member surely you can replicate them
...I wrote six poems in my car on my way to school Put my phone on record, which is my general rule It only picked up about half of what I said I am irritated now, for these were the best in my head ......

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Categories: albany, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loving Jose
...Yes, Jose, this is another love letter from anthroprivileged me to LeftBrain dominant you for multicultural us. I'm still here sinking into my deep blue camp chair with feet resting on a wea......

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Categories: albany, depression, happiness, health, lonely,
Form: Narrative



Ray - Tanka 68
... 'Georgia On My Mind' 'Hit the Road, Jack' 'What'd I Say?' Musing through rhythm ......

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Categories: albany, appreciation, blessing, celebration, inspiration,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Lines Written In Albany
... On white lines on valiant wheels I head north leaving behind the City of Sails with its humourless streets, its casino steel and glass Sky Tower built upon the rubble of a gran......

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Categories: albany, how i feel, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Albany in April
...From hills and orchard row to the Queen’s chain plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild - in planted grove and fertile dairy plain droved is the fatted calf and the earth tilled. White ......

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Categories: albany, autumn, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
Massacre At William Henry, Part Iii
......Outside the French guns continued to screech, a blast rocked them all, and opened a breach, morale was fading, beginning to sag, the next day the French sent out a truce flag. Ned watched fr......

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Categories: albany, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Study In Bronze
...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all Round me were the sounds of London go......

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Categories: albany, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Sands of Gallipoli-S Blood
...SANDS OF GALLIPOLI’S BLOOD On the sands where diggers bled As they came ashore, To fight the good fight, Puppets of a master’s whim Of loyalty to a crown of way beyond, No hesitation to join ......

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Categories: albany, april, inspiration, irony, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now Showing At the Albany
...The line of people out the door. The queue that snaked around the floor. The building's sleek art deco style. The carpets' faded plush red pile. The "Coming Soon" in convex frames. The "Showin......

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Categories: albany, childhood, film, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Loretta Part 2
...We went away heaps of times, to busso, gerro, freo, york, bunbury and albany I remember most the latter and how you wrecked my bike so horribly I carried it up a hill, while you went to get the u......

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Categories: albany, girlfriend, kiss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Hitchiking Tales
...April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitch hiking Tales When I was young and foolish Broke and stubborn I hitchhiked across the USA Started in Salt Lake City Where my greyhound bus pass ......

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Categories: albany, travel,
Form: Free verse
What the Hell Are They Thinking
...The grand, half-ruined Parthenon, once a sublime, Doric grace, Even now, in broken, stone blocks, always takes my breath away. The rich, classical detail, fluted columns without plinths, to ima......

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Categories: albany, appreciation, art, city, creation,
Form: Rhyme

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