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Chicago Poems | Examples of Chicago Poetry

Premium Member Chicago Catholic Grade School Fire
Twenty-four days before Christmas in 1958 there was a huge fire at Our Lady of the Angels, a Catholic grade school in Chicago Eighty-seven children and three nuns died in this fire. One of the children who passed was Mary’s little sister, Karen. She was to be a first grader forever. Mary was in the fourth grade at the time. Mary...

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Categories: chicago, christian, city, fire,
Form: Narrative
Feseration
Research into the prospective matter Could conclude the beginnings preclusive end. She then saw her wants and desires as need The dophious status of who she sought made me know that the complications was due to her lack of reality. She was bruised from the foolishness of ignorance and refined in the need of belonging. His dumbness proved that the...

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Categories: chicago, america, betrayal,
Form: ABC



Premium Member RETARDED FBI INFORMANT FROM CHICAGO
WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM JUNK SICK COPS AND A HUGE JAMAICAN TALIBAN OPERATION IN NORTH CHICAGO ILLINOIS BEING FROM CHICAGO MADE THIS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU ARE LABELED ST RAT AS MY EMPLOYMENT FORT SHERIDAN ARMY GREATLAKES LANGLEY FINALLY RELOCATED TO TAMPA MACDILL AIRFORCE BASE WHERE I...

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Categories: chicago, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member V TERRORIST THREATS MONTIFIORE BAD BOYS HOMES ROOSEVELT ROAD CHICAGO 1969
1969 WAS A HORRID TIME IN CHICAGO MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS KILLED CHURCHES LOOTING CHICAGO WAS LITERALLY BURNING DOWN ESPECIALLY THE WEST SIDE GANGS CONTROLLING THE STREETS SINCE JEFF FORT LOST THE GOVERMENT FUNDING FOR CITY YOUTH PROGRAMS BECAUSE HE WAS FUNDING THE GANGS BLACK SOULS SO YES BETWEEN HIM LARRY HOOVER BLACK PANTHERS CIVIL...

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Categories: chicago, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member STALKING OF THE PUBLIC FIGURE BY THE CHICAGO OUTFIT EXTORTING POLK COUNTY VETERANS
MY STALKERS BEGAN TORMENTING ME AFTER SEVERAL BREAK INS I CONTACTED SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION BECAUSE SHE INSTALLED WIRES ON MY UNBORN CHILD WHILE I WENT INTO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FOR THE FBI TAKING DOWN A HUGE ONGOING DRUG OPERATION RESULTING IN 30 ISLANDERS BEING EXILED...

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Categories: chicago, allah,
Form: Naat



Premium Member TONY BOLONY THE CABBY NORTH CHICAGO ARSON MURDER VICTIM 9
AFTER THE KARCHER FIRE LOUD SILENCE FBI AGENTS WERE GETTING CLOSER CIRO GARGANO WAS NERVOUS UNRAVELING THE CREW STORED THE CONTENTS OF THE TAILOR SHOP IN THE GARAGE AT LAKE COUNTY MUSIC COMPANY THE GARAGE IN BACK OF THE POOL ROOM FAMILY BILLAIRDS KAPLAN CLOTHING THESE WERE JOIN BUISNESSES GARGANO AND HIS PARTNER FIRE CHIEF...

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Categories: chicago, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Tripping Over Their Clippings
Chicago Cubs stumble their way to another loss tonight ~ tripping over their own press clippings ...

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Categories: baseball, chicago, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Free Wind
Joining the guild Waking in a game Playing the fool Saintly dance Trusting the plan Enjoying the play Justice is my friend Surfing waves Flying as a bird Open to create Burning with love...

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Categories: chicago, angel, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Silent One in the Skies
The morning is walking in its own pride And courage is leaning by my side The sun is rising up from the east and fire is burning in the belly of the beast Morning is shining all over the place And the evening sun is melting their faces Strange things are happening in town And the multitude is moving around With bags...

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Categories: chicago, city, earth day,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Apophasis Now
Apophasis is such a cool word. Not to mention how it sounds like a popping fist and fireworks, though I wouldn’t dare suggest I’ve ever blown things up just for grins and giggles. It’s cousin to praeteritio, kissing cousin to paralepsis— all of them cool sounding words, not to mention parasiopesis which leaves the juiciest bits unsaid— but don’t get me started on this. Of course,...

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Categories: birthday, cat, chicago, firework,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member California Exodus
~California Exodus~ No, I do not seek your agreement! After living in California, I find a predicament. It feels like I have a brain filled with acrid cement! If you want to live sanely and quite well,...

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Categories: chicago, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
That Canteen Guy
Just a few days in, college felt new, Chilling in the canteen with my unusual crew. I saw a guy feeding pups with care, And told my friend, “Yaar, ese bhi log hote hai.. it's rare!” He was just another face, A guy with a gentle grace. We laughed it off and moved on from the scene, Not knowing what that moment...

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Categories: change, chicago, dedication, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pope Leo from Chicago
South Side did bide sports man Sox fan! da Bears? da prayers! new pope brings hope...

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Categories: chicago, appreciation, humor,
Form: Footle
Love Birds
Moshpit Romance two lovebird nerds By:Bird's Eye View The Peasant and Turkey The horse and the Cow churk and ah gimerro Aurelius sow these seeds for me in this rich Rio River mud Aurelius Amadeu Rio Grande Mud to grow his Yamaa Spinach,and Brassicaceae Aurelius pick my greens and rename my brassicaceae to watercress in the rich thick muds of the Rio Grande! Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, ...

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Categories: america, character, chicago, film,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member California Dreaming
California Dreaming ...

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Categories: chicago,
Form: Rhyme

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