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Chattanooga Poems - Poems about Chattanooga

Premium Member Vogon Without Regret
...Glimitz! According to your order - pronounce, I weigh less than an ounce. As gratchens flame and fly, to my disdain, I wonder, have you got a light? A conference call, a violin, a gently rap......

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Categories: chattanooga, nonsense,
Form: Vogon Poetry
DAYS OF OLD 40's
...We had; The face behind the mask and Chattanooga choo, choo. A boy and his dog and Bill and Coo. We three and Gaslight. The black cat and Dead of the night. A ......

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Categories: chattanooga, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Singing Goldfish
...Their silver nightclub microphones were mega-big, giant size I’d say Three sensuous singing goldfish stepped up to sing the night away They started with Chattanooga Choo Choo which always makes me ......

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Categories: chattanooga, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey
...Was just a young'un in the big band era But it seems just like yesterday Listening to Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey Still love it right to this day Miller's Modernaires, and Dorsey's Pi......

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Categories: chattanooga, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feckless Forest Faeries
...Feckless forest faeries faintly frolicking for fiddling foundlings. Morose mortals merrily mixing meager mushroom munchies Fantastical fey forever feeds frenzied fevers following forest firs Cha......

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Categories: chattanooga, word play,
Form: Alliteration



Society There's Nothing Wrong With Me
...Society There's Nothing Wrong With Me== " Society, there's nothing wrong with me, there was something wrong with you." You told me that I had better do this and better not do that. You were so very ......

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Categories: chattanooga, anger, bullying, children, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Storms Comin
...Storms coming, saw the angry red sky. Went out back on the decking a hummingbird was dodging around but there was no feeder, threw it away when she left. Winds up, storms comin, farm gates ......

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Categories: chattanooga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wise Ass
...WISE ASS You know this person! In middle school his perfect sarcasm seems funny and bold and wise to our ears, makes adults and institutions seem hopelessly inept, disingenuous, insecure B......

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Categories: chattanooga, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unexpected
...One thing I’ve learned about life…in all the memories I’ve collected…is hot to embrace the unanticipated…the unforeseen…the unexpected Oh, I still believe in planing trips with forethought, cautio......

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Categories: chattanooga, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abc Anew Boo Chew Dew
...Antagonistic apes alluded to awful alligators allowing allegiance anew. Bamboozled baboons believed beyond borders bibbity bobbity boo. Chummy chimpanzees cheekily chattering central Chattanooga ch......

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Categories: chattanooga, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Tribute To Glenn Miller Orchestra
...I’ve got a girl in Kalamazoo, sing Miller, Swing Miller, Ding Miller doo… Moonlight cocktail anyone? Glenn’s orchestra is on the run. come on down. Let’s have some fun! boogie Doogie Moogie Hoog......

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Categories: chattanooga, age, music,
Form: Rhyme
Chowder Horn For My Dad
...Our roots run deep into the Philadelphia bells of acoustical waves of your musical melodies, sound in my distant ear, the sailors storm on the wooden ferry I ride, into the depths, of a swamps crossi......

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Categories: chattanooga, adventure, appreciation, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Long Train Ride
...We boarded for the long ride on that train - It brought back memories of being young. Conductor: "Passengers will please refrain!" Now 'City of New Orleans' on each tongue, We sang through all th......

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Categories: chattanooga, song, travel,
Form: Dizain
Chattanooga Heat
...When it's just too hot for comfort, and you can't get ice cream cones, it ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones. (from my Grandmother in Chattanooga, TN)......

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Categories: chattanooga, childhood, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resting In These Tennessee Hills
...Resting In These Tennessee Hills Lazy mornings in these Tennessee hills Horned owl in tree behind house hoots all night Sometimes annoys but often gifts a thrill As country-fired moon sends us ......

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Categories: chattanooga, appreciation, beauty, feelings, imagery,
Form: Sonnet

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