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Best Cleveland Poems

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


Cleveland Browns
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...

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Categories: cleveland, football, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cleveland, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Johnny Football
At Texas A & M, he played at quarterback.
The young man led a prolific offensive attack.
He gave up his last two years at college.
Apparently, he...

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Categories: cleveland, football,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member America's Idle Pastime
America's (Idle) Pastime

From New York, Austin, and L.A.,
From Cleveland and Seattle,
Ingloriously they screech or bray
In an auditioning battle.

And by the time we all feel sick,
(the...

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Categories: cleveland, funny,
Form: Grook
Dust and Ash
Dust & Ash

Meteors falling from the sky
like stars sparkling in the night.

The volcano’s dust forms
below Iceland’s clouds.

Life stops.
Pilots stand.

Air traffic is discontent,
as the volatile atmosphere...

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Categories: cleveland, change, earth, environment, flying,
Form: Free verse



To the Girl Who Doesn'T Love Me
To The Girl Who Doesn't Love Me (by: Josner Saintil)
     Forget you!
     You think I'm not good...

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Categories: cleveland, anger, death, deep, happy
Form: Free verse
Ohio Poets
From the Ohio River to the Great Lake Erie.
If they come from Cleveland, or south in Cincinnati,
these talented persons’ works are the ones we should...

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Categories: cleveland, dedication, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rivers and Roses
What was once based on ability is now politically correct
As the powers that be try to disconnect
At Cooperstown where there is so much fame
The list...

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Categories: cleveland, music, sports, missing, missing,
Form: Rhyme
ROSIE
She stands beautiful, pride in the sky 
The first lady of my countryside 
Watching over both town and tide 
I'm gonna climb her one more...

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Categories: cleveland, morning, nature, sound,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Four Short Poems For the Apocalypse
Four Short Poems for the Apocalypse

Poem #1 – “Reality Bites”

Feeling so hopeless.
Feeling the loss somewhere inside.
I can feel it, but I don’t know quite where.
Reality...

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Categories: cleveland, angst, death,
Form: Free verse
American Green
American green




      The tree of life gave birth to a nation and these men who helped nature 
  ...

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Categories: cleveland, america, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Election 2016
He has no laser vision, and he lacks the gift of flight.
 He has no rocket car to drive; his clothes aren’t even tight.

He's a...

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Categories: cleveland, bird, change, earth, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Long Poem About Cyberspace and the People Who Live There
/by Vicki Acquah


Before, when we were young; 
We were together all of us.. 
Awhile back when you were young,
I was youthfully older-We were
together back then...

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Categories: cleveland, community, computer, together, planet,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Chicago Cubs
As a baseball fan in the Windy City,
one had to tolerate a lot of mediocrity.
If you followed the Cubs, you deserved a lot of pity.
What...

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Categories: cleveland, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Topic of Conversation
Topic of Conversation (Heroic Couplet)

Say what you want about the man in black 
You think he cares about that, he got stacks.

Akron Ohio was his...

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Categories: cleveland, anniversary, basketball, betrayal, business,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things