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Best Californian Poems

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


Premium Member Road Trip From Hell
Across the vast Californian Death Valley I went out for a drive
The temperature gauge was reading a hundred and twenty five.

Despite the unforgiving temperature, I...

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Categories: californian, adventure, america, car, sun,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Gabriela Anderson -Schiess
Gabriela Anderson Scheiss was a long distance runner
Who ran the marathon in the Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty four
You probably...

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Categories: californian, dedication, race, sports, usa,
Form: Rhyme
As Sharp As a Razor
Me barber’s still one of them blokes who lives the school of old,
using methods quite old fashioned to what modern trends unfold,
so with scissors, clippers,...

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Categories: californian, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Panagiotas Poor Footsies
Pangie was struggling in the heat
Said this heat wave sure has me beat
This old hot sun
Is no damn fun
Its swelling my poor little feet.

Written on...

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Categories: californian, abuse, humor,
Form: Limerick
Oceanic Wedding of Sapphire Emotions
Amidst nocturnal blue naked confessions 
of our intertwined souls, hearing the 
mellifluous melody and symphony of 
our ocean, lulling our inner child’s deepest 
sapphire emotions...

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Categories: californian, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stokey 2014
Stokey 2014

I am working the door

At an all night bar

Sometimes I think I have spent too much time alone.  These long nights remind me...

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Categories: californian, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
California Dreams
Life relapse and develops new memories and experiences sighted through brown eyes
Miles of driving, walking. Thousands of laughters, a few bad habits, a gorgeous dream...

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Categories: californian, age, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Spy Breidenthal -Part 2-
I will never forget the Feast of Tabernacles at Lake Arrowhead
I spent my nights there in our beautiful rented house
With Spy loyally by my side
...

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Categories: californian, appreciation, cat, grief, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Brilliance of the Ending Day
Let's sit under the tall, satured elm after the long-gone storm;
its branches, unwavering and steaming, are awfully warm.
They stretch their drooping arms to brush off...

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Categories: californian, autumn, beauty, bird, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 7
Legend Of The Black Dove  
                  ...

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Categories: californian, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Methuselah
For four-thousand years and more
He’s withstood the tests of time;
Extremes of heat and cold
Haven’t cut him down in his prime;
Even now he proudly stands
As a...

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Categories: californian, naturetree, tree, planet, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
A Diamond For Mom On Mother's Day
How many springs that bloomed and withered like flowers?
How many winters that came and melted in front of me?
How many summers that burnt my skin...

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Categories: californian, life, love, mother, people,
Form: Lyric
California
We see art deco sunsets and
paisley palm trees
        
         on...

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© Chad Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: californian, naturesun,
Form: Free verse
I - My Imaginary Friend
I wake up in a bath of sweat
 I am late starting my journey
 Weightless clothes hide my being
 Protect the skin from reality, my...

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Categories: californian, angel, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An International Flavour
Italian risotto
A welsh rarebit
Californian salad
with Hoolandaise sauce
Mandarin gateaux
with Swedish
Toast!...

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Categories: californian, food, places
Form: Epulaeryu

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