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Champaign Poems - Poems about Champaign

Premium MemberWhat Was I Thinking, O'Yes

...My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey 
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent 
in a border town, oh what...
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Categories: champaign, character, love, sweet, sweet
Form: Free verse

Ways Of Not Arriving

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My mind drifts loose 
into the moving art framed by train window.
Houses in the field glitch by— 
brick red roofs and windows
that hold sunset across the champaign.
I wonder what it’s like to ...
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Categories: champaign, art, fate, life, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTime for Champaign

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Let me tell you about my day...
Maybe it was as light as air;
Not too rough, not too contrary-
Oh! You look dubious? Let's just
Pop that cork, it's time for champagne!...
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Categories: champaign, life,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberThings AI doesn't know

...Why do we ask: “can you keep a secret?”
Knowing that if we’re telling them
That we can’t keep a secret.

Explain a black eye
1.	I was wrestling with the dog
2.	Opening a Champaign Bottle 
3.	M...
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Categories: champaign, age, fun,
Form: List

Premium MemberXmas Tide

...Xmas tide, 
a time for familial gatherings,
The golden chain of friendship 
…and companions
Sweet on each other,
parading arm in arm
Together to share a feast and gift giving

...Nativity sce...
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Categories: champaign, character, christmas, lonely, longing,
Form: Haibun



Premium MemberChapter 165--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANYA: Damian Chases a milestone-- part II

...Date:  August 10   2051

At the time Dolly Molly and Holly arrived at the restaurant most of the Hakims were there enjoying jazz melodies some relatives were on the second level l. Mama Lucinda was...
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Categories: champaign, august, best friend, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStart All Over Again: with audio

...Start All Over Again



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Vs.1) Your voice is like whiskey deep down
          F
in my bones
C.                G.             F
Your arms around me ,feels...
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Categories: champaign, feelings, for him, husband,
Form: Lyric

FUN

...It's Christmas season, the merriment season

The smell of a fresh season, blooming with love

Christ the reason for the season, a song we always sing

Singing joyously, with tune so high, rhyme...
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Categories: champaign, butterfly, celebration, christmas, dance,
Form: Epic

Anniversary

...A Contemporary Haiku

giggles from the covers
champaign chilling
walkers beside the bed
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Categories: champaign, anniversary, poetry,
Form: Haiku

Pineapple Pride

...I was walking through the pineapple row and a thorn stick me on my middle toe, I bend down low to remove it and I almost fell into the ditch, I didn’t know what to do and so I start chanting an unfam...
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Categories: champaign, america, betrayal, birth, body,
Form: Narrative

After the Fizz

...By the gray rivers flowing, the recently revived,
bob along like Champaign corks in the swift current.

The dead always pop too soon,
even when
you pull their corks with long lamentations.
The ...
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Categories: champaign, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Great Names

...This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by 
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.

Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that 
swallows ...
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Categories: champaign, birth, creation, earth, magic,
Form: Free verse

Paradise In the Tree

...Paradise in the tree is looking down at thee; paradise in the tree has a message for you and me, the stains are dripping from the vine and I have to hold on to what is mine, the wind is blowing in my...
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Categories: champaign, courage, dance, endurance, engagement,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWhen The Party Is Over -POTD

...When The Party Is Over

When the party’s over, the rising sun shines, with all eyes squinting
Make-up smeared on face’s, some have slimy snail skin
A woman waiting for a gent to light...
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Categories: champaign, celebration, halloween,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Still Your Day Dear

...In a flash, life has changed 
Whenever I think about you 
There is always a smile on my face
Which I cannot explain 

May be to all we have exchanged 
Remembered and view anew
And most times, ...
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Categories: champaign, age, appreciation, art, best
Form: Rhyme

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