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Best Billboards Poems

Below are the all-time best Billboards poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of billboards poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Rant
This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise...

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Categories: billboards, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse



River Findings
River Findings

The Ohio winds around hills
and streams down the hollows
passes steel mills, brick yards and scrap yards.
It carries tug boats, pushes barges, and hauls
black coal...

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Categories: billboards, imagery, perspective, river, travel,
Form: Free verse
No Troll-Toll
I SAW the death creep three hooves and a beat!
A pregnant silence above violins stressed
strings--||dancing frets ~~~~~~~
A gnome drunk-walk scattering blackbirds
and neon-lit billboards ;a humid...

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Categories: billboards, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Cheap Click
Surfing through social media
it's a wave coming atcha in speedia,
forward motion becoming a blur
clickity clack there is no cure
scrolling fast, getting motion sick,
oh look another...

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Categories: billboards, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Starry Skies Over Damascus
Starry skies over Damascus

Like a star chart for the
bomber pilots eating
Milky Ways and lives
Chocolate in the desert
for desert in consumption

The poem could stop here
its pretty...

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Categories: billboards, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Performing On a Unicycle
(in Branson, Missouri)

I've seen Santa on billboards,
in store windows,
on street-corners, ringing tiny bells.

I've seen Santa on TV,
in sales magazines,
in parades with funny little elves.

I've seen...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: billboards, children, christmas,
Form: Free verse
She Breaks
Neon billboards scream a symphony of 
images
in attempts to sell
happiness
by bleeding dissatisfaction into her mind.

Glossy, crisp pages remind her that she isn't 
good enough
to be...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: billboards, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
When Money Becomes Your God
A prayer is like seduction to your soul
Your church is the glamour the world bestowals
Your bible is the flashy neon lights and billboards
Your truth is...

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Categories: billboards, atheist, bible, class, god,
Form: Free verse
No Environment, No Life
Think globally, act locally,
The desert shall rejoice
And blossom as rose,
Man has been endowed with reason
With the power to create
So that he can add to what...

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Categories: billboards, nature
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Divided We Stand
Inspired by a tremendously bold & powerful track, “Who we are” by Machinehead

Once upon a misery call
Deception broke bread with diabetic circumstances
Sugar
Coating
Half-assed smiles

Phantoms of a...

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Categories: billboards, america, life, people, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grey Mottled Pastiche
A maze of tall ascending fingers pierce the sky
Prominent and conceived as seeds
In someone's fertile mind
Crowded together packed in vertical line
That overshadow the pavement below.

Temples...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: billboards, business, city, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Broken Were a City
If Broken Were A City.

If Broken were a city, it'd be so far away.
No one would want to visit yet many there would stay.
Not by...

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Categories: billboards, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bandita Beauty -
A Valentine Write For My One & Only Street Angel -

I met you in a town of a thousand hustles,
a big stage supporting a million...

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Categories: billboards, love, universe,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Public Nuisance Number 1
Dragon made the papers for that very unfortunate Church event, toots sweet.
Then Dragon, suddenly, decided to finger-paint billboards, all over the town.
He’d discovered painting was...

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Categories: billboards, change, community, conflict, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
We Walk Alone
Yesterday, my professor, with a kind disposition,
Told me that my inability to get the work done, was sometimes not depression at all, but
rather
a lazy refusal...

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Categories: billboards, faithme, people, time, voice,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things