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Asbury Poems - Poems about Asbury


Premium MemberAvon by the Sea

...I didn't pull my weight
The boss was really sore
He said "you're second rate
and I won't take it anymore."

He continued raving 
On how I was misbehaving 
Said my job was not worth saving 
An...
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Categories: asbury, america, friend, ocean, places,
Form: Lyric

Warrior

...Duty sits on her right shoulder
Honor sits proudly on her left
She has honed herself a warrior
to never cry or become bereft

Her mighty sword fells the enemy,
one after one till they are done
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Categories: asbury, adventure, women,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberI Found My Heart In San Francisco

...I have a great appreciation for the song,
"I left my heart in San Francisco"*, and I have
a great understanding of why one would leave
his/her heart in such a beautiful and most
enchanting city. ...
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Categories: asbury, christian, feelings, god, love,
Form: Narrative

The Phoenix

...She nested upon
her self-made pyre
preparing for
another genesis
in blaze hues of love
and together they were
a combustible fire

She, the creature
exquisitely
forged by fire
eternally
ex...
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Categories: asbury, animal, bird, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

I Am Made of Moments

...I am from spaghetti
from tomato pie and pigs feet dipped in sause

I am from mt Italian neighborhood
(treeless city streets.

I am from my grandfather's house
who I never met

I am from yell...
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Categories: asbury, city, ocean,
Form: Free verse



Can You Please Wait a Second

...Can You Please Wait A Second...?

In steed of ye
     mounting your stock
key high horse,
     perhaps named Rock
Key, and head off...lock

stock and barrel,
     who knows where,
     now ...
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Categories: asbury, assonance, character, endurance, light,
Form: Free verse

Speak To Me In the 60's

...Want you please speak to me in the 60's
In far out psychedelic rhymes
Take a ride beside the blacklight 
On the Velvet Underground 

Wake me up with the Strawberry Alarm Clock
Serving incense a...
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Categories: asbury, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse

Asbury As Buried

...Below the wavy whispers in the melancholy sea
    Sinks the timeless place where ships were once sailing fast and free
In the empty broken buildings glass and garbage thrown about
     No one look...
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Categories: asbury, loss, nostalgia, places,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry