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Best Bus Fare Poems


A Letter From Me
...ME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be......

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Categories: bus fare, black african american, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Pity My City
...Pity my city
I pity my city there is no dignity in this city
There is no justice no freedom
Street children in a locked hall, shocking
County council overworking
The city must be clean so some h......

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Categories: bus fare, city, corruption, evil, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Steely-Eyed Bunny Wabbits
...steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she is traipsing round......

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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bus fare, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Edith's Hefty Handbag
...Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoo......

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Categories: bus fare, humor, humorous, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Penny Memories
... 
Dad said this about the penny
Have one in your pocket to touch
You will never, ever be broke
Times, I have existed on the penny

Have one in your pocket to touch
I have many in v......

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Categories: bus fare, dad, father, life, me,
Form: Pantoum
Hunger Causes Anger
...The magnificent sun is shining bright
Flooding the natural earth with white light
My emotions are immersed in anger
My strength is usurped by pangs of hunger
I think of years of economic boom
Wh......

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Categories: bus fare, anger, emotions,
Form: Lyric



Sympathy For the Moron
...As I ride this inconsistent city bus at 4:22 not 4:15; I realize that I am the miscreant among people who simply are traveling home. Clearly the people on this bus should be looking at ME as the dirt......

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Categories: bus fare, angst, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yes About a Dress
...YES ABOUT A DRESS

El, please come shopping with me today,
He knew she would ask him anyway,
Sure Honey, he immediately lit
A cigarette, we’ll leave in a bit!
Shopping with Jen wasn’t too much ......

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Categories: bus fare, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Public Transportation
...buses cabs subways
how I get around
no subways are here
so buses will do
for six days a week

cities subways
when I am there
cabs cost too much
subways are quick

hitch hiked some
younger days
now bu......

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Categories: bus fare, journey,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
The Hunger Doesn'T Help
...I have a paper due on thursday
and i haven't started
Bills pile up like laundry
Specking of drity clothes, I'm wearing my last pair of underwear
and my heart hurts
not emotional, phsically,
lik......

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Categories: bus fare, depression
Form: Free verse
Misplaced Loyalty
...I've invested too much time 
Into people I thought were genuine 
It's baffling
How many people you know 
You think have your back
But actually don't 
When you need me there
I show up 
When I ......

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bus fare, anger, character, conflict, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Vox Populi
...I'se  been working my ass all day
in them government agencies in this here hot city	 
and them only giving me this little to pay
for food, rent and give them back the change in my grocery bill and......

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Categories: bus fare, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Hop Aboard the Bus
...
While in the city, you need exact bus fare. 
Without it, you can't go anywhere. 
A trip across town you can easily arrange. 
Have the right amount because the driver has no change. 
Just hop......

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Categories: bus fare, city, travel,
Form: Light Verse
Quarter To Eight
...Sometimes I don't hear so well,
Sometimes I get confused
English is a tough language
Verse, tense, structures, sentences
It's an easy language to get abused

I sat on the couch, facing the TV,
......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bus fare, allegory, fantasy, funny, on
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Sometimes We Pay Extra
...Sometimes we pay double extra
During inflation
Price rise in cooking oil
It has been a long time
We're eating waste oil
Increment in electric bills
Already suffering from 
An extreme  hot day
......

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Categories: bus fare, car, drink, food, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

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