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Best Borough Poems

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Upstate Blues
It can be kind of depressing,
living in upstate New York,
because of that damn city,
that grand ol’ attention whore,
I cannot go anywhere
without having to explain
that I...

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Categories: borough, city, culture, funny, how
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borough, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Your Morning Bagel Doylestown Pa
YOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borough, appreciation, blessing, business, nature,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Last Tree
A pretty oak  sits outside my window pane in the snow and in the rain 
Covered with life, outside the balcony fifty steps away...

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© Jim Joyce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borough, nature, life, rain, tree,
Form: Free verse
New York City - Vicious Cycle
Pushed to the edge by reality, yes, these verses will stifle.

A revolving door always present; New York City....Vicious Cycle.

This is a poem about the hardships,...

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Categories: borough, abuse, addiction, innocence, new
Form: Couplet



In the Library of Bmcc
Surrounded by heavy tomes 
Chronicling the history of 
   countless generations 
One can only feel a sense of 
    awe...

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Categories: borough, education, history, tribute, may,
Form: Ballad
Another Season - Smokey Memories
The Brooklyn Cyclones 
      now represent the borough 
of Brooklyn 
    where I spent my 
formative years...

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Categories: borough, nostalgia, sports, world,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Lane Change
dead end street …
mostly elderly when we came
always quiet … 
empty nests side-by-side
aching for spring
but winter came instead
(the winter of life)
friends … good people -
town...

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Categories: borough, analogy, appreciation, change, history,
Form: Free verse
Earthbound Sobriety
While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture 
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.

Brooklyn in its...

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Categories: borough, history, hope, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Doylestown Pennsylvania Your Morning Bagel
YOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: borough, beauty, birth, food, time,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
My Teacher-A Butterfly
Here is my teacher,there flies my teacher
One who taught me to be higher the Reacher
Do not lose hope she said,For morrow
Strive hard and walk through...

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Categories: borough, butterfly, inspiration, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Indiscriminate Slayings of the Innocents
The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, 
Have recorded...

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Categories: borough, abuse, angel, baby, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What About Wolfs
WHAT ABOUT WOLFS

shel silverstein: a bit childish, his giving tree my kids remember, though its parts were dismembered as it gave to the bitter end...

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Categories: borough, poets,
Form: Tazkira
A Qunintessential Brooklyn Night
Went to see a minor league game 
  in the fabled borough of Brooklyn 
   Ate hot dogs at Nathan's 
then headed...

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Categories: borough, baseball, urban,
Form: Blank verse
Out of the Blue
Every one I know has a girl friend
Every one except me
And that is why for special occasions
I don’t like to go by the family

Because they...

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Categories: borough, life, lonely, love,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs