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Announcements Poems - Poems about Announcements

Premium MemberSuperman Comics, Cuban Cigars

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   Five-and-Ten, a ‘Mom-and-Pop’
      just down the road
   Ye olde-fashioned ice cream shoppe

   Round the corner a little bit
      an old barber’s pole
   Enjoy the flavor of candy-cane ...
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Categories: announcements, america, memory, nostalgia, old,
Form: Rhyme

Out of the Office

...She left me.
I’m getting groceries by myself.
I don’t like it, but I don’t like to starve.
Announcements make me jump.
I want to leave, but need to survive.
My therapist is out of the office.
T...
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Categories: announcements, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberRequiem for Elmer

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*After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in...
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Categories: announcements, humor, murder,
Form: Narrative

On Appreciation

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Within today's giftee's coup d'etat
Gratitude receives no big hurrah.
      A gift was expected
      gift cards are accepted
But thank yous are not a rule of law.

Announcements/invitations ...
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Categories: announcements, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMe On a Radio and Megaphone

...Loud announcements on my radio and megaphone
Heard all over the  school ground and parking zone-
It’s raining prof drivers, take extra precautions,
Drive slowly on your route, looking in all direc...
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Categories: announcements, care,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberAnthology Sos

...Missed my submission of poem in the first PS anthology
I think I was travelling that time or in a very long journey
Second submission, I think I’ve missed because I was so busy
Perhaps focused on ...
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Categories: announcements, confusion,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberNight Tour

...Then there is the night
with its backstreets of characters,
masked, intractable, unwilling 
to leave the comfort of their
lifelong haunts. They call out
then turn away in fear
of being known.
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Categories: announcements, journey, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShanira and Her Guardian Faerie

...Shanira was standing on her tiptoes on the softest bluebell of all.
As she stretched toward the moon, she felt elongated and tall.
The moon winked his approval and gave her permission to be.
She l...
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Categories: announcements, fairy,
Form: Rhyme

Conversation With a Dumb

...It was in church (I'm Catholic by birth)
We had just finished the main part of the mass
By main I mean the Communion was already over
And we were into announcements
I brought out my phone to chec...
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Categories: announcements, miracle,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Railway Station

...Neon lights outlined stalls
in braids of red and green
in the dim cavernous hall
of the railway station.
Muted drum taps of passing feet
and crisscross talk were pierced
by stabbing announcemen...
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Categories: announcements, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumnal Announcements

...a chill breeze
whispers of winter
a squirrel’s tale

a cool fog hovers
a snake lays motionless
awaiting the sun

a bell rings
yellow crusted kid pods
heed its call

September roses
blush...
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Categories: announcements, autumn, nature, seasons,
Form: Senryu

How Flying Feels

...This is how an airport feels -
Crowded, hot and teeming.
Lines that wrap around and ‘round;
Babes and toddlers screaming.

Masks on every face except
So many noses showing
And no one to remind...
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Categories: announcements, flying,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSaving Face Campaign

...Nonviolent designers 
of Public Service Announcements

Like "STOP"
smoking
shooting up
drinking
trashing
burning
ignoring various morbid diseases
sinning
sundry mental/spiritual pathologie...
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Categories: announcements, green, health, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse

Epidemic

...The rush of emotion, 
The thud of adrenaline, 
Amidst the commotion, 
Scouting for medicine, 

Those who speak, keep others in line, 
Patience they say and all will be fine,  

Those who seek...
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Categories: announcements, people,
Form: Rhyme

Didnt Get the Memo

...Public service announcements seem to not work any more.

The stress of our circumstances seem to confirm our righteousness.

We never listen to anybody but we listen to our pity.

We praise and...
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Categories: announcements, allah, black african american,
Form: Free verse

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