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Best Houston Poems

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Premium Member Houston We Have a Problem
"When returning love, becomes to Late"

Fantastic,
From her eyes
His name the name
She mumbles silently 
3 rivers, 3 years, 2 many tears
She loves him endlessly

Sending her soul
A...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: houston, absence, cry, desire, feelings,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Houston
Houston

I wonder if the summer rain was warm
that poured like Pharaoh’s plagues upon the town
as people waded from their homes in swarms
and small craft was...

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Categories: houston, rain, storm,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Echoes From Houston
From the wild western plains, I call unto thee my sister of the poetic heart,
Where have thee gone, swallowed whole by a desert storm, or...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: houston, adventure, america, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poets Abode
A Poet’s Abode

A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...

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Categories: houston, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Apollo 11
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
were the three that made up the crew
to be the first men to set foot on the moon
was what they were determined...

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Categories: houston, historyjuly, success,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: houston, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Remember the Alamo
The Texans weren't supposed to be
 Holding the old mission.
Sam Houston sent Jim Bowie there.
 Said he had a vision.

Bowie wanted to save the fort.
...

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Categories: houston, courage, death, war, men,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Azalea City Is My Hometown
I come from Valdosta, Georgia, the lovely peach state,
Where everyone uses a southern drawl to communicate.
Valdosta is known as the “Azalea City” for its gorgeous...

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Categories: houston, adventure, flower, high school,
Form: Bio
Westward Ho'
In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more,...

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Categories: houston, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme
We Have a Problem
Communication has gotten erratic,
there's a lot of outside interference
Aluminum yawning creates constant static
I can't hear you ... can you hear me?
Stonewalls separate us,
frequent bathroom stalls
breaks...

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Categories: houston, anxiety, divorce, love hurts,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Concrete Dreams
flight	
			        mission controls
			      checked and bound 
		      ...

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Categories: houston, dream, imagery, imagination, innocence,
Form: Concrete
Until Love Returns To Me
(One Moment In Time- Whitney Houston)




I touch the dawn when fear explains
             ...

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Categories: houston, love, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Will Always
(Sung To The Song "I Will Always Love You" By Whitney Houston...From the film..The Bodyguard)...(1992)


If you do stay
You'll be tempting me to your way
In the...

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Categories: houston, desire, food, miss you,
Form: Lyric
Stop the Violent Protests
Stop! The violent protests and leave peaceful protesters out to make a difference strictly along.  Whether you are in law enforcement or the national...

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Categories: houston, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Girls View of the 1980's
I will go back in time to the 1980's when I was still a young girl,
         loved...

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Categories: houston, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs