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Balboa Poems - Poems about Balboa

Premium MemberIN THE GARDENING OF THE GENESIS AND REVELATION OF LIFE

...For the blessed fruits of the blessed tree of life’s being,
Persecution and crucifixion have their time in life’s seasons;
Their demise coming with seasons of resurrection and ascension:-

Season...
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Categories: balboa, allegory,
Form: Pastoral

Premium MemberFirecrackers

...Firecrackers will ever crack, 
And you will always have my back. 
Do you think, when we took that car,
We might have gone a bit too far? 
I don't think when you drove that loop, 
We went too far...
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Categories: balboa, childhood, dance, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSan Diego Calling

...For a fun vacation, I suggest San Diego might be for you
A city with lots of sunshine and warm temperatures and plenty to do
Its proximity to the border gives you lots of Mexican food choices to tr...
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Categories: balboa, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

Rocky Balboa: Adrian's Theme Tribute

...#YO! MY SOUL ACHES IN LONGING FOR MORE INSTRUMENTATION THAT MASSAGES, SOOTHES AND BRINGS A SPECIAL SOLACE THAT I NEED...

THIS IS WHAT "ADRIAN'S THEME" BRINGS TO ME! 

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND IMAGINE...
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Categories: balboa, appreciation, imagination, introspection, music,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberOcean Symphony

...Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                               Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diol...
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Categories: balboa, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberRocky Balboa

...Shy Adrien fell in love with Rocky
He is not arrogant and not cocky,
These two loved each other
Both also loved her brother,
Took care of bird named Mr. Blocky.

Apollo Creed match was a disast...
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Categories: balboa, tribute,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThe First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578

...The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell th...
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Categories: balboa, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberFancy Stress - Collaboration With the Amazing Nina Parmenter

...There’s a party tonight so I bouffe up my hair
Pamper and powder my sweet derrière,
Arrive at the door, all done up to impress.....
Oh man, I forgot! Invite said “fancy dress”!

Pete...
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Categories: balboa, celebration, clothes, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Temporary Or Permanent

...So much to say and no one to say it to
Well that’s not entirely true
You just don’t want me to

You have the strength of Hercules
Yet use it to hurt those close to you

You have the judgement ...
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Categories: balboa, conflict, friendship, goodbye, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

Ii

...II

The teacher and her pupil sat by the river
holding hands and trading adjectives of

admiration. Luna looked down upon the playful
couple and blessed their union. They were pioneers

on th...
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Categories: balboa, love, mentor,
Form: Free verse

Rocky Xii

...My name's Rocky Balboa,
Some say I'm old as soil;
An' if you call me punchy,
My blood begins to boil!

Mickey's gone to heaven,
Apollo and Adrian too;
Now I'm stuck with Paulie,
A bum without...
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Categories: balboa, funny, humor, sports,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberYoda Balboa

...Yo, strength flows from lethal fists, these
Coz, am I not, the dark-sided Casanova?
Anger, fear, and pain to they
Who respect me not one iota.

Yet for my first fight, see I not,
The force of that US...
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Categories: balboa, humorous, me, pain, me,
Form: Quatrain

Elegy For Neil

...Our great Balboa has left the hillock bare
And two waters converge in evening mist
Where from our vision he made us stare
As the divided dimensions rose and kiss
So sleep the sailor, so sleep the car...
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Categories: balboa, death, tribute, children, children,
Form: Elegy

Neil Armstrong

...The great man is dead
And he may find in this voyage
So many Columbus that left us blind
Without knowledge
Of earth indisputable speck
Steering the shipwreck
With malfunctioned cameras of dream.

The...
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Categories: balboa, tribute, universe,
Form: Free verse

Falling

...After sailing on stormy seas with twenty foot swells, 
rising and falling into great oceanic troughs, 
bobbing like a corked bottle pushed by strong waves,  
our family expedition on the sleek bla...
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Categories: balboa, childhoodme,
Form: Free verse

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