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Best Zip Code Poems

Below are the all-time best Zip Code poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of zip code poems written by PoetrySoup members


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Zip Code
Contaminated water
For a few more dollars
Immoral power

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Red Zone
No loans
Where are the politicians with a backbone?

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Confrontation
Discrimination
Forced incrimination

Zip Code
Dirty streets
Vociferous beats
Too shallow to be...

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© Lara Wash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zip code, discrimination, power, water,
Form: Rhyme



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There is no collaboration in War
Poison winds and bullets
The fallout from a silent bomb that arrives out of nowhere
Lives left dead and damaged...

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Categories: zip code, bible, children, family, future,
Form: Free verse
Pomposity
The Perfect life, a wife half his age
Their house grand, with a zip code to match
No hawkers, appointments only

The library full of Shakespeare
Never opened, for...

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Categories: zip code, funny, money, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
The Importance of Pomposity
The importance of Pomposity
(Not to be taken seriously)

The Perfect life, a wife half his age
Their house grand, with a zip code to match
All bought and...

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Categories: zip code, people, satire, wife, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Road
Racing down the highway, enjoying the open road
 Off on another road trip to another zip code
 A stop for gas when needed
 Dashing off...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zip code, adventure,
Form: Acrostic



My Cat
Just an old stray cat,
I found at the post office,
I call him zip code...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zip code, animals
Form: Haiku
The Numbers Game
In the end, it was the numbers that did us in.?
They lined us up into military rows and assigned us all numbers?
One after one after...

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Categories: zip code, anger, angst, anxiety, crazy,
Form: Didactic
Start Changing Your Life Path- Christen Kuikoua
The most efficient way to change your life
 is by changing your life, 
rearrange your life, 
architect your existence, 
it is as simple as this,...

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Categories: zip code, 10th grade, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Kim Kardashians Weight
Kim Kardashian’s weight

why
the
****
do 
we 
as 
a 
species
give
a 
****
about
Kim
Kardashian’s
weight
while
pregnant?

why do we care about her ****ing weight while she was
not with child?

why do we care about Kim...

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Categories: zip code, life, care, care,
Form: Free verse
The Last Day
In days when life and times were hard, a man would make his way
by carving out the wilderness for a place where he could stay.
Floyd...

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Categories: zip code, cowboy-western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Long Nights
the bottle is empty
the bartender brings a next one
but it didn't last to long
another bottle is gone

i thought about marijuana
but i change my mind
its just...

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Categories: zip code, life, loneliness, lonely, lost
Form: Light Verse
To Be Continued
Tonight's episode...  
When rumor meets reality, 
what truth shall shake loose 
as your body surrenders
 to temptation rising? 
Resolved to perform
 interrogations and coercions
...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: zip code, for her,
Form: Free verse
Spring Equinox 2018
this middle aged rue stirring bummer
   haint no stranger to cold,
when dark hen stormy wintry days
   eggs hit from Arctic portal...

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Categories: zip code, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Met
I’m walking distance to the Met*
So when I’ve time to spare,
I take a stroll and see whatever
Might be showing there.

Of course, I check out new...

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Categories: zip code, art,
Form: Rhyme
Evolution of a Smile
Tea pot Patty slurps her ginger tea
Whiskey with opioids mixed within it
A cup of pleasure there for company
Poor bar stool could break in two
With Patty...

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Categories: zip code, abuse, character, conflict, identity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs