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Best Beltway Poems

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A Beltway World Series
Baltimore fans will not be popping a champagne cork.
The Orioles were defeated by the Yankees from New York.
Likewise, a World Series is not what Washington...

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Categories: beltway, loss, sports, world,
Form: Rhyme



Beltway Crash
I see them fighting like cats and dogs
but taking money like fatted hogs,
so while they spend and spend
we get screwed in the end...
Hail to the...

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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beltway, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Into the Blue
Into the blue, another new dimension;
   into the blue- our destiny is Mars.
A strong reality, long-term ascension-
   into the blue among...

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Categories: beltway, blue, journey, space, universe,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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Relaxing Music for Deep Sleep. Delta Waves.
Calm Background for Sleeping, Meditation, and Yoga.

Amidst human tempest
malevolent fiery brew
whereby renegades who 
kickstarted effective coup
I laid down with
eyes...

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Categories: beltway, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sleigh Pursuit
It was the night before Christmas
And on this very calm night
Almost fell asleep in my squad car
When the radar unit did light

The speed was over...

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Categories: beltway, christmas, fire, holiday, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Plastic Clouds
Plastic clouds sherbet skies
meeting place of the stones.
You were too hard today
the way you sat there.
so I took a walk across the mind
of silly thoughts...

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Categories: beltway, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
April Fools' Occurs First Day of Fourth Month
April fools' occurs first day of fourth month

Ordinarily all manner 
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries 
by different cultures, 
though exact origins remain 
shrouded...

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Categories: beltway, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Flipping Investigation 2017
THE FLIPPING INVESTIGATION 2017
All politicians in the beltway show
what signs of times we put up with today,
obesity is in again, we know
and ev'ry politician thinks...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beltway, addiction, hate, political, war,
Form: Sonnet
The Revving Roar of Rolling Thunder
The Revving Roar of Rolling Thunder

Through the revving roar of Rolling Thunder,
amplifying along air and asphalt, 
silent complacency’s cast asunder,
by the tour de force its...

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Categories: beltway, america, memorial day, military,
Form: Sonnet
Friends
Like the morning dawn friends are there.
To brighten that bitter night before.
When you’re lost at sea they help you ashore.

When you’re a pain in their...

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Categories: beltway, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form: I do not know?
The Blackheart Man
All day again 
Down the road from Albion school 
The child shivered in the sun in pain. 
Somebody broke the rule 
They said, the blackheart...

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Categories: beltway, satire, school, child, day,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Confused
Confused
By Franklin Price
11/5/2016

I'm really quite confused
About the chosen few
Who run our Federal Government
And the things they say and do

How they got there in the first...

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Categories: beltway, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Deer
A deer was slain on the Beltway
My car drove along her body
I heard horns behind me
Slowing down to look at her poor carcass

That evening, brushing...

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© Betim Muco  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beltway, life
Form: Blank verse
Bursts of Creativity
Bursts Of Creativity...

Asper myself tend
to occur late at night,
or early morn 'o follow
wing day unbeknownst
despite acute insight
how, when, where, why...

ideas swarm and bite
inspiration doth alight
try...

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Categories: beltway, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Hearty Valent Sign
Ah what fair moan
laden fantasy lassitude looms
large if this
chaste ole buoy got cornered
into an alleyway
by a bevy of beefy

buxom babes dead set
on hounding this
doggone codger...

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Categories: beltway, blessing, celebration, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things