Best Hydrant Poems
...The snow so deep… That it was over our heads… Was a melting by the hour!
Give it a day, or two at most… and with this heat… it would all be gone, forever!
But in the meantime, we were sadly stuck, in......
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Categories:
hydrant, adventure, funny, happy, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
...Standing next to a fire hydrant
Alone
Sitting on a park bench
Bothered by you
rather I be alone
Looking into a broken mirror
Cliche'
People bore me. That they do.
I'm a person so I am......
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Categories:
hydrant, crazy, dark, deep, humor,
Form:
Free verse
...Sun poures its hot rain.
It wades drinking away the race body heat,
beneath their feet as they walk the baking street.
Neighborhood kids play upon the streets
splash......
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Categories:
hydrant, children, fun, water,
Form:
Free verse
...The busted fire hydrant on the corner sprays water down like rain.
Water gushes down the dirty gutter, relieving this humid pain.
Sipping iced tea in their air-conditioned houses on the hill or i......
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Categories:
hydrant, life, people, social, urban
Form:
Rhyme
...Once I saw a purplish oblong tangerine,
Standing near the hydrant on Sixty-first
I wondered what it could possibly mean,
Then, I was overcome with dreadful thirst
When I watched it s......
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Categories:
hydrant, fantasy, fun, imagination, insect,
Form:
Sonnet
...It's not a swimming pool
still feels so cool,
it's not even a pond
still feels so grand!
On a hot summer day
children at play
dipping their toes
where the hydrant flows,
looking so hip
rea......
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Categories:
hydrant, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
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Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest
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City hum drifts through spurious ways,
teeming in a wild, woody w......
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Categories:
hydrant, angst, city,
Form:
Free verse
...Ghetto dreams, ponder
Broke hydrant, cement
Only leaking tears
© Drake J. Eszes
Submitted to Charles Henderson's: "Haiku your way" contest.......
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Categories:
hydrant, introspection, loss, sad, urban
Form:
Haiku
...What if you were born in the 1800's?
What if your nose was triangular?
What if your skin color were 3 shades of bronze, brown or black
......
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Categories:
hydrant, abuse, america, analogy, black
Form:
Free verse
...Hubby was working, out of town, lately, so we went to pick him up.
And we passed thru the town of Metropolis in our ancient pickup truck.
Now don’t think Dragon didn’t notice, that this was the tow......
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Categories:
hydrant, fantasy, fun, funny, hero,
Form:
Light Verse
...I come from a place where its all about your pace
Where hopes and dreams, Are written on your face
Sink or Swim, How?, If in a fire hydrant we played
Streams leading to sewage drains, Childhood dr......
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Categories:
hydrant, city, dream, encouraging, growing
Form:
Couplet
...Ever find yourself getting
up on the wrong side of
the bed, knowing your
going to have one of those
days!! Guess what!
everything went wrong,
first, the letters slipped
out of the ma......
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Categories:
hydrant, funny,
Form:
Free verse
...Leaving my home in the city
Gray lonely,and faceless
When the sun did shine
We'd run to the corner of 166
By Moes candy store
And jump into our neighborhood pond
The local fire hydrant
We woul......
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Categories:
hydrant, childhood, daffodils, dedication, growing
Form:
Dramatic Verse
...Hubby works in the next town, and I drop him off… quietly each morn.
But when it’s night… and time to pick him up…Dragon comes along.
Dragons there, daily, so crazy things tend to happen, I can ho......
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Categories:
hydrant, fantasy, fun, hilarious, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
...the fire hydrant comes handy
first and fore most it saves lives
but to walk a dog in the city
it's a place of choice
better than the lamp post
and a tree we leave alone
as on a leash I am dir......
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Categories:
hydrant, education,
Form:
Free verse