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Best Exxon Poems

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


Rename America Exxon
We should rename America and call it Exxon.
Salute their new flag at the rise of dawn.
To ten of our highest ranking officials, Exxon is their...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exxon, epic
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Who Will Light the Ovens?
Herded on to reservations.
Their chiefs humiliated.
International witnesses killed and abused.
Geneva conventions are ignored.
Oslo agreements are trashed.
United Nation covenants and agreements denied.
Numbers were written on their...

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Categories: exxon, political
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west...

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Categories: exxon, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
Right and Wrong
Tears in the tar
carried far
cry the dolphin
to a passing star
...help us…
see the gulls
who now don’t fly
see the whales
who search for sky
coast of destruction
while they all...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exxon, nature
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Pucka Parker Rest In Peace
It all started five decades ago, when her gift of imagination began to grow. 
She was the youngest of five and could not wait for...

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Categories: exxon, age, childhood, for her,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Street Life
Mug of Joe
Tarp hung low
Living under an over pass
Is better than dancing in jail
Day old butts
And dumpster meals
A cart with just three wheels
Got a place...

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Categories: exxon, addiction, character, city, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Passing Through
Passing through for a short time
Just stopped in to tell you “Hey”, 
nothing specific on my mind.
Haven’t had much to say.

Been over a year since...

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Categories: exxon, friendship, happiness, writing,
Form: Rhyme
As I Progress On...
To The Nexted Blog....

About Exxon...

Stressed Long...

Like Withering Latches...

Is'nt She Magic...

Instantly Passion...

Attaches...

To This...

Fluid...Movement...

Of Dellusive Music....

Changes Truth...

Like The Anchient Roots...

We're All The Same...

Players In This Common Game...

Where...

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Categories: exxon, life
Form: Rhyme
Wheel On a Stick Part 10
The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element 
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing


Radiant 

A pilgrimage of enlightenment undertaken by Bob...

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Categories: exxon, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pain At the Pump
Ah! For the good old days when you could fill the tank for a dollar.
If folks paid more'n a quarter a gallon, my, how they'd...

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Categories: exxon, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme
A Little Girl's View
I was going on a vacation with my family one day,
 We thought we would head down Louisiana way.

 It was great being with my...

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Categories: exxon, angst, business, death, education,
Form: Couplet
Master of Disaster and Plaster
Remember this? On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a 
reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill....

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exxon, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Toughest Assignment
He looked at his orders and left out a long sigh
Raised his eyes to the clouds and asked, "Why, God, Why?"
The toughest assignment of a...

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Categories: exxon, death, visionary, son, war,
Form: Couplet
Earthday/Gulf of Mexico
Celebrate!!
Oil for all!!
Bring a cup 
Have your fill!!
Black gold for all!!

Pelicans are oil coated,
Ready to fry!
Black moon sand is
Free for all!!

The oil is still
Lingering on
Alaska's...

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Categories: exxon, nature, political, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Thought It Would Go Even Higher
Big oil has its hands in our pocket
Pump prices rose like a rocket
It was just a ruse
Designed to confuse  
The voters who vote with...

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Categories: exxon, humor, money, political, repetition,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs