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Best Gotham Poems

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Premium Member Halloween In Gotham City
Let’s have a party and invite our nemesis, Robin suggested one day.
Let’s have it on Halloween and invite all of them Batman said in a...

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Categories: gotham, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Gotham City
GOTHAM

The brothels are terrible in Gotham City
and do little excuses
no one is safe from a bite
there in the shadows where the bodies are dried
from morning...

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Categories: gotham, butterfly, city, conflict,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Batman - For Contest
Terror has returned to the heart of Gotham City
Commissioner Gordon’s task sure isn’t pretty
Penguin, the Joker and Riddler are back on the scene
Stirring terror in...

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Categories: gotham, fantasy, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letters From Batman
Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different

When the Riddler is your Stepfather

And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile

When your secret mission is to keep him

From...

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Categories: gotham, abuse, adventure, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Super Heroes and Super Villains
I remember the days I was like Dracula
Lonely, and sucking peoples blood!
The life force of my victims,
Now that I've realized my true purpose!
Im kinda like...

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Categories: gotham, identity, imagery, imagination, irony,
Form: Verse



I, Icon
They spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's  rooms; and rednecks' 
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing...

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Categories: gotham, humor, peace,
Form: Free verse
Searching For An Urban Love
This city has about eight million inhabitants
Surely, one can find some love from these masses
I see the young women with ripped pants
I like the look...

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Categories: gotham, love, urban,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Violence
Criminal reform - we think of those who deserve a second chance or are caught in a system where they can never make headway, or...

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Categories: gotham, america, anger, corruption, violence,
Form: Acrostic
Fine Day In the City
Sun beaming down its loving rays
on Gotham
New York City - in particular the Lower East Side 
is "where it's at"
This fine venue 
allopws me to...

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Categories: gotham, joy, sun, urban,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Batman
I awoke at the bottom of a dry well
Frozen in time with no recollection of the fall
Or of where or who I was in this...

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Categories: gotham, children, dark,
Form: Rhyme
From My Window
after I turn off the TV - that electric eye 
  I gaze out 
       of my window...

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Categories: gotham, night, urban,
Form: Concrete
The Joker
His golden delicious red lips 
Rosy with a hint of distaste and betrayal
His grassy green hair 
Compromises the diseased brain rotting from within
His tall plush...

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Categories: gotham, corruption, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arkham Asylum
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane,
    a fictional psychiatric hospital and prison:
part of the DC comics and first appearing in...

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Categories: gotham, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If President Trump Knew Me
If President Trump knew me 
What would I be? 
A prince, pauper or just someone with a degree 
He the President may know me from...

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Categories: gotham, angel, appreciation, class, friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Day I Saw Batman
The Day I Saw Batman

By Elton Camp

When I was walking along in Gotham City
The sight I saw seemed to be such a pity

There stood Batman...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gotham, funny, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs