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Best Trenton Poems

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The Attack On Trenton
Men, I know this is Christmas Night.
However, remember we have a war to fight.
His Majesty’s forces have had us occupied.
Our freedom and well-being is something...

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Categories: trenton, adventure, history, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Paeon To a Trenton Victory
Johann Rall and his Hessian men are defeated this harsh chilled day.
Washington routed these troops at a small Trenton town with surprise.
Crossing the raw Delaware...

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Categories: trenton, war,
Form: Rhyme
Washington's Miracle, Part I
In December 1776
the revolution was at a low ebb,
the patriots had lost at Long Island
and the survivors through New Jersey fled.

Desertion was high as many...

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Categories: trenton, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
Washington's Miracle, Part Ii
...It also left their powder pretty wet,
but their was something command had foreseen,
and they brought extra artillery guns,
less vulnerable to the moisture’s sheen.

Washington hoped they’d...

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Categories: trenton, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
Choose To Be Happy
Choose to be Happy


I am happy because I choose to be; my life is far from perfect.

Others are content but I make conscious choices to...

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Categories: trenton, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tea Time
"Steeped" in resentment at usurious taxes, a Revolution was "brewing!"
History records that the Boston Tea Party was to be the Brits undoing!
An anguished groan was...

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Categories: trenton, history
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terror From New Jersey's Devil
New Jersey was still a king’s colony
in the 1700s when Mrs. Leeds
awaited the birth of child thirteen.

In pain during labor she cried a curse!
The Quaker...

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Categories: trenton, fear, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Teacher
There once was a teacher from Trenton
who tried, but he couldn't keep his belt on,
His pants they would fall
on his knees he would crawl,
And the...

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Categories: trenton, funny,
Form: Limerick
Brazilian Wax
Note:  According to the Trenton NJ newspaper, NJ Considered Ban on Bare-it-
all “Brazilian” Wax due to complications suffered by some.

I know it's not about...

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Categories: trenton, business, health, politicalbody,
Form: Rhyme
General Washington
GENERAL WASHINGTON


Once in command, he boxed in the British 
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights,
Overlooking the Brits at his mercy 
As his men took...

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© Tom Zart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trenton, history, passion, visionary, men,
Form: ABC
Atlantic City
MEGAPLIER: NO
Pick-3 Green ball 
double draw is back.
February offers
Earn up to $3,000!
Cash value at Taj Mahal
2X tier points
Before you begin playing,
Activate the 2x tier point...

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Categories: trenton, games, money, travel,
Form: Free verse
Ernie Kovacs
You were born in 1919 in Trenton, New Jersey,
Television would be your medium for comedy.
Your first appearance to the public was in 1950.
This was an...

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Categories: trenton, dedicationwife,
Form: Rhyme
Song of the Minuteman
I am the minuteman
and I’ll lay thyself in a grave,
whether from distant lands
or if you’re just from down the lane,
Stand against freedom and
I will treat...

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Categories: trenton, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
What the Rabble Have Done
They taxed us without our consent,
we who though we were Englishmen,
said we had no say in governance,
so we simply boycotted them,
threw their tea into the...

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Categories: trenton, adventure, america, england, history,
Form: Rhyme
Friend
he is my freind
he is my life
he is the best friend ever
he is the shoulder i cry on
he nows all my secerts
i love him aaf
he...

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Categories: trenton, peopleme, me,
Form: I do not know?

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