Best City Block Poems

IF POETS RULED THE WORLD

If poets ruled the world
laws would be written with panache and... 
oh yes, compassion;
civil liberty in fashion.
Carpetbaggers fold up your tents...

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How I now long to sing a song
With "guns" as its only word
A solitary droning tone
Fiercely sung such it need be heard

Higher than half its...

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Spring Paintings by Kinkade

purple sky at eve
a log cottage by a stream
with windows aglow

after vietnam
my old familiar path home
lights and chimney smoke

lilac carnival
decorates each city...

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Sandy Springs is a quiet town
Not much really to be found
Except at the end of main street
A Great House you will greet

Gothic height with pointed...

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I was a self-admitted misanthrope	 
unwilling to lose or drop a case.
I often threw a rope-a-dope
just to win; I never lose face.

I worked the dark...

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Fireworks are still popping in my neighborhood
Long after July 4th; I keep thinking they’ll stop,
And hope so soon for the sake of brotherhood!

Celebrations are meaningful...

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Walking to grade school without a care
Each morning at the same spot
Freshly baked bread scent filled the air
Straight from the oven, savory hot
Aroma so sweet,...

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I tie the perfect noose
Pull tight on the cord
Kick the chair from underneath me
As my feet both touch the floor

I take the electric toaster
Set it...

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This goes out to everyone who has ever lost someone to the streets.

I cry a tear for everyone who has ever lost someone to the...

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Date:  September  2050

Damian stood at the front door 
Ushering everybody out to the waiting 
Limousine. "Come on my People 
Be quick about it...

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One of my favorite sayings,
     one you may have heard before
Is from a movie that's set in the Depression era,
 ...

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Listen Up
Hobbes

*Quick note*
This is a song I wrote a few months back

Attention to the greater population,
Hear me as I offer you Redemption.
Kneel to me and...

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"Samsara!"
Yelled a young prophet
With one eye and a cane.

His eye was made of tightly bundled,
Tall, wet grass.
His cane the smooth, rounded
Pebbles of a Dakota stream.

His...

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in the city that never sleeps you walked from day to night
from hustling on the corner to running business state to state
some call you a...

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The old man could barely walk
Bent over on his cane
And there beside him
Man's Best Friend
It wasn't in him to complain.

One-half a step -sheer agony
For the...

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