Best Cleveland Poems

The original Browns are not in Cleveland anymore.
They are now known as the Ravens, and they play in Baltimore.
A new Browns team built from scratch has taken their place.
However, the way they have played has been a big disgrace.
Cleveland fans have endured some big-time stormy...

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During last night’s draft coverage, ESPN would reveal
that the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles made a deal.
At the last minute, Philadelphia sent their first-round pick
to Cleveland for two Browns choices in a move that was quick.
With pick number twenty-two, the Browns chose Johnny Manziel.
This was...

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Once a man of steel,
cuckolded by foreigners,
made to bear a rusty belt
And belch hapless smoke in shame.

Once a spiderweb of commerce-
now a conglomerate of strangers,
united by dementia-ridden streets
frayed and cracked by Erie’s buffets-
but the breakwall soldiers still hold the line.

As do the masses, when they...

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the city is closing for the night
stores draw their blinds one by one 
every street is dark save for the dim 
Downtown streetlights bending at the neck

like weighted stems of steel. Rockefellers 
and Carnegie have built the city in layers:   
clinics, factories, the...

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They will read my poem and wonder
"Who is this?" But I knew you better
Than any who will search and blunder
Harnessed to their finite, mortal fetter
You are gone, no longer restrained
And cumbered by time's clay palace
The sprite and child in you sustained
Through life, and without carnal...

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I remember you and I
How we sat to lunch summer after summer
I remember you and I
The small scope critic and the pearl sweet preacher
We lunched in the Bronx, feasted
In Manhattan, the wasted
Cancer fled, I have not forgotten
For then you brimmed my soul with heaven
You lived...

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What can I say?
You had me from hello…
Guess that’s why they called me
Content with my Cleveland halo 
Shining bright and tall
With a demeanor so fly…
Stars in your eyes from mine to yours
There’s so much to explore
It’s been awhile but yet still the beginnin’…
I love the...

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SPOILING   CLEVELAND




While roses belch perfume into the air and 
Nightingales’ whistles pierce my ears 
I can't savour the clamorous glamour
And odorous charm of the steel mills in Cleveland...

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When I was younger Cleveland was so big to me.
I came close to success a few times but back I just wasn't ready.
I had to gain a strong will and some professional knowledge.
For me to get where I was going I needed God
The fruits of...

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For my special day, I had one aim -
The Rock & Rollers Hall of Fame.
So I'm here in Cleveland, where we spent 
The whole day there. (The time just went!)

As a bonus, there's a movie fest
So we saw a film; we were quite impressed.
Had a...

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I take off my jacket, it’s been a warm day
and the heat has followed me into the house.
I should be already on my way to Cleveland
to a poetry slam, I did promise half-heartedly,
but slamming poets means a headache
after a long drive.

There’s lead and gun smoke...

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I take off my jacket, it’s been a warm day
and the heat has followed me into the house.
I should be already on my way to Cleveland
to a poetry slam, I did promise half-heartedly,
but slamming poets means a headache
after a long drive.
Poetry is an art-form. It’s...

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Green Roses do exist.
Let me tell you who I am with a significant twist.
I represent the beauty and war of a rose.
You can read that in the books and poems that I wrote.
But please make note.
I am the green rose and green is the color...

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