Best Jacksonville Poems

Wafting on the morning breeze,
During manufacturing
Our whole town enjoyed the scent.
Maxwell House Coffee.

Freshness permeating air.
Aroma percolating.
Infusing memories of…
Grandma’s coffee pot.

June 3, 2012
Dane Ann Smith-Johnen...

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My Saint John flow on
Through forest, marsh and town's spread
Tablecloth of stars

Conquistadors gone
The blue herons walk alone
In moonlight's silence

River and lone night
Memory is a wind's...

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Smoke-filled noisy bar,
debauched disciples of dance,
I do not fit in....

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Synchronicity woven by fate’s volatile hands
   Gave rise to calamity in deceptive, calm skies
   Creating tragedy so harsh that reason defies
Into...

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"The Lobster House" on the St.
Johns River in Downtown-Downtown 1950s
Jacksonville, Florida, was where 
"The Creaturefrom the Black Lagoon" crawled 
up from the deep onto a...

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First of all, it’s a big responsibility,
especially in a city like Jacksonville, or Philadelphia, or wherever really.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On...

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One Family
Parents, two daughters and a son
Children were young and loved learning about life.
Together, they explored the world…often visiting the zoo.
Lover of:  the first...

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The trip was worth all of the diffulculties that we esperienced in arriving to gran'nny
house, such as first the day my dad left us, and...

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tilly fowler missed
jacksonville not the same town
empty office,heart...

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Young visitors
to his grave
at Pere Lachaise
wonder why
an old chick like me
gets up on his tomb-
stone which is littered
with wine bottles
stuck with flowers
and written upon
with loving...

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If you're trying to push your Coupe' DeVille
from Panama City to Jacksonville
You've got to journey through Gadsden County.
So you better mind your P's and Q's
if...

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A story probably most of you already know.
This took place on a football team not too long ago.
The owner and all the coaches together agreed,
that...

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The cold air blowing through my frail body,
puts goose bumps all over me.

Walking through large snow drifts,
making time seem longer,
and each step taking away
my energy.

Time...

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Times had turned to worse after my dad left, and after their fight of many fights !
I hear him say to mama, "I am going...

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As the sweltering heat finally simmer's down to it's most modest degree. I notice some
one resting right beside me, someone who once had a home...

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