Best Mailboxes Poems
Reach Out
...Let us reach out and make connection
With spontaneous everlasting affection
Wake up and say it
We care! We care!
Then do it
Starting up! Starting up!
A gentle flow with glow
In the right dir......
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Categories:
mailboxes, care, humanity, inspirational, together,
Form:
Free verse
Green House Road
...Day by day, passing that sign
piqued my interest. Curiosity
grew stronger . . . had to check it out.
I drove down Green House Road.
The gravel spread on asphalt dinged
a symphony underneath.
......
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Categories:
mailboxes, confusion, culture,
Form:
Narrative
A Sign
...The madman chalked red X’s
on the sidewalks of the houses
if he suspected
or had evidence
that people there
were unkind to each other,
or their dogs.
When he was a young man,
he studied......
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Categories:
mailboxes, allegory, angst, life, peoplelost,
Form:
Blank verse
Empty Mailboxes
...The empty mailbox used to sit
Outside our houses by the road;
Now it’s on our PC’s
And can hold a larger load.
Instead of visiting it once each day,
Hopeful of mail there to find,
We check it......
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Categories:
mailboxes, life
Form:
Rhyme
1959 Was My Heyday
...I retired gracefully, happily, knowing I could never be fully completely replaced even to this day.
I was slick, photographic, revered by so many, loved by a few, heavy, a bit conceited but in a goo......
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Categories:
mailboxes, 12th grade, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Personification
I Am My Block
...I am my block. I am the neighbors. I am the stoops. I am the steps.
I am the concrete. I am the windows. I am the roofs. I am my block.
Her mantra kept going well into the night.
I am my block.
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Categories:
mailboxes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Old School
...Old School
Remember the old boom box boogey down to the socks
Reggie Jackson chewy bars & Tommy's pop rocks
Parachutte pants with the hair high fade
Wake up late in a purple haze saying it'......
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Categories:
mailboxes, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Around the Corner
...Just around the corner,
Halloween will be here.
Witches and goblins
chasing you everywhere.
Ghosts sneaking upon you, scaring
the ebeegbees out of you, too.
Pumpkins smashed along the road......
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Categories:
mailboxes, games, halloween, holiday, house,
Form:
Rhyme
He, She, They, Dance
...She is nervous say beads of sweat dripping from her brow down to the floor.
She is scared says the worried expression on her glistening face.
Although she has a million butterflies swarming in he......
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Categories:
mailboxes, beautiful, dance, dedication, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Old Retired Guys
...Seems like old retired guys can always find somethin' to do,
Even if its sittin' on a couch watchin' TV and sippin' a brew.
Or they could be sittin' on a park bench feedin' the pigeons,
Or s......
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Categories:
mailboxes, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Proof Is In the Pudding 2
...I crossed into Vienna, VIA courthouse road still trying to figure want it was all about
Then I see where courthouse road ends right at church street den
The road continue from court house road and......
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Categories:
mailboxes, america, angel, betrayal, break
Form:
Narrative
Lost Art
...Lost Art
There was a time
when we waited eagerly
for the mailman -
when mail deliveries
had actual mail in them
There were real
hand-written letters
from parents,
cousins, children, ......
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Categories:
mailboxes, loss, muse, perspective, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Mr Brown
...Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown
Me and Daddy went to town
We saw a bus that had no nose
Just one sneeze and off it goes.
The school bus sneezed! Achoo! Achoo!
I think that bus has caught the flu!
Mr......
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Categories:
mailboxes, adventure, childhood, daughter, father,
Form:
Text Messages
...whoever it was that created text messaging phones
needs to take all the money they made,
get really drunk, or really high
or a young girlfriend,
anything it takes
to make them old before their time
s......
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Categories:
mailboxes, people, science, people, money,
Form:
Free verse
Glory Won Mailbox Competition
...When consulted, the mailman said,
"Sure, put a little daisy on the mailbox if you want."
So we all put on daisies.
Martha put one daisy.
I put up two, the girl down the street put on a marigold.
......
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Categories:
mailboxes, humorous,
Form:
Free verse