Best Birmingham Poems
Below are the all-time best Birmingham poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of birmingham poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
birmingham, visionary
Form:
Senryu
Birmingham GraceLeft Memphis on a southbound bus.
Entered north Mississippi as I knew I must.
Turned toward the Alabama line.
Spent the next couple hours dreaming you were...
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Categories:
birmingham, allegory, journey, lust, romance,
Form:
Lyric
My Spinal Decompression Surgery
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...
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Categories:
birmingham, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Holiday HorrorWe had just got married - was the month of June
This is the saga of our disastrous honeymoon
We started off in a hotel in Norwich
The...
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Categories:
birmingham, holiday, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
American Covenanta knee, a neck, a symbol, a tool
the segregationist would be proud
fighting to breathe is a fight where
Vegas is covering all odds
let's lay our...
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Categories:
birmingham, america,
Form:
Free verse
The Rise of the FinucanesA big welcome to you all who’ve travelled from afar
By plane by boat and motor car
For a reunion here in Hodson bay
It will be I’m...
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Categories:
birmingham, cousin, family, grandparents, people,
Form:
Rhyme
What Mary HadMary had a little lamb, everyone knows that's true
But Mary loves all pets so, she’s added on a few.
What Mary Had
Mary had a little frog,...
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Categories:
birmingham, animal, care, freedom, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Faith Not FearFAITH NOT, FEAR!
When the ole’ devil tells you that you
are not going to make is and that you are going down
you are going to have...
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Categories:
birmingham, celebration, faith, fear,
Form:
Narrative
Four Little GirlsPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Four Little Girls
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: August/2014
Perhaps
you remember
the four little girls,
savagely killed
in the bombing of the
16th Street Baptist Church
in Birmingham -
Or
perhaps it's just a faded
memory,
vanished through
time -
Maybe,
you...
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Categories:
birmingham, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
The Angry Soup of Racismain't it a shame
when hate lynches
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little ***** girls
in 1963...
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Categories:
birmingham, angst, care, old, care,
Form:
Free verse
Jessica Mccord: Selfish AssassinIt 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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Categories:
birmingham, daughter, death, father, funeral,
Form:
Bio
Not Your *****Last night I was mesmerized
by James Baldwin
in a documentary
"I Am Not Your *****"
in which Baldwin reflects on
Medger, Malcolm, and Martin
who were shot in that order
within...
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Categories:
birmingham, community, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My MemoirGUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART
From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming....
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Categories:
birmingham, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Progress and PreservationExhaust fumes and flower blooms
Acrid smells, gentler scents
& pungent decay
Hot molten gold flows out of a clear
blue sky
Cars rumble down streets made into
alleys...
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Categories:
birmingham, black african american, city,
Form:
I do not know?
Londons BurningA person shot dead,this how it unfolds
rioting and looting,electrcticals clothes and gold
Tottenham bore the first brunt,that came undone
and spread throughout the boroughs of London.
As...
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Categories:
birmingham, slam,
Form:
Rhyme