Best Atlanta Poems

imagine me
upon his knee

a little child so meek and mild
thrilled to visit our dear Santa
in the heart of old Atlanta
such a precocious little child

thrilled to...

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The Falcons are a team that is flying high.
Their success is something no one will deny.
When the birds have other teams in their clutches,
their opponents...

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The Atlanta Braves
losing in the Wild Card game.
          Done for the season.
    ...

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Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas 
Mrs. Claus demanded a divorce.
Santa was being promiscuous
with older naughty girls, of course.

All those ho ho ho’s liked his package,
for...

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I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of...

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Ground seepage
A small start mere drainage
Grows to a mighty river rushing
Flowing some three-hundred-fourty-four miles a rushing
From Atlanta to the Gulf beauty accenting
Through ragged Spewell Bluff...

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Atlanta 1997, my first visit to America I recall
I went with a friend called joyous Jessica 
With no real intention of “dressing up” at all...

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It was February 2002 (WWF Raw, WWF SmackDown!, and WWF No Way Out), that Jessica McCord and her then-husband, Jeff, killed Alan Bates and his...

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Chicken and waffles happens to be a favorite Southern dish,
even in Harlem, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia.
This delicious dish has been around since
African-American music
was born,
especially...

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Man has lived a hard life
While trying to live free
Voting and living in fine
Houses never intended to be
Somehow treated badly while 
Others took away their...

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On the day before Christmas, 1997 I was in a supermarket
Saw many people, I thought it’ll take long time to buy gifts
Christmas getting more and...

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“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...

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My father died prematurely while away on 
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart  
I never doubted he loved me,...

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Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
a black man from Atlanta, Georgia.
An activist and visionary 
he spoke against racial injustice.

This Nobel Prize-winning man of peace
preached tolerance and...

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