Best Rhode Island Poems
The Mansions of Rhode IslandTour the mansions of Rhode Island
(And it doesn’t matter which)
And discover just how different
Life can be if you are rich.
Want to throw a little party?
Ask 400 of your friends
While your servants prep and coddle
For the fun that never ends.
Have some outfits made in Paris;
Order in...
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Categories:
rhode island, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cold Rhode Island MorningBeyond the gates,
Where the old bakery stood,
Was a memory of cold hands and
The saving glittering gems of the jelly doughnut.
Then late for practice and asthmatic from suicides.
My mother's voice calling in the wind.
When is it all reconstructed the right way?
Under what gray moon do...
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Categories:
rhode island, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
rhode island, places
Form:
Light Verse
Rhode Islandthe biding time of......
the bride of,and man flower
the power of,people...
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Categories:
rhode island, art,
Form:
Haiku
Rhode Island Red RoosterI say...I say
that
college boy
up yonder
with
them
college books
over there
ain't
smarter
than
a
ten watt
lightbulb
said
the
Rhode Island Red Rooster...
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Categories:
rhode island, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse