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Tribute Chicago Poems

These Tribute Chicago poems are examples of Chicago poems about Tribute. These are the best examples of Chicago Tribute poems written by international poets.

Ever-Cheerful - a Tribute

Ever-cheerful and optimistic
An island of sanity midst pandemic's panic
A voice of reason in a sea of shouts
   Dr. Janice Jackson, public schools CEO
...

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Categories: chicago, education, leadership, leaving,

A Poem For Sam Cooke

December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Categories: chicago, america, celebrity, devotion, music,

Killed In Chicago, 8 Years Old

                  


  ~Who  Was She~


The little...

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Categories: chicago, america, black african american,

Grandfather, My Heart, My Soul

Growing up with an angel that loved me.
Hovering close,with cane, walking.
Me, on a tricycle to the candy store,
Bright summer days I cannot ignore.

Though decades have...

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Categories: chicago, childhood, dedication, granddaughter,

Tribute To a Greek-American

Tribute to a Greek-American

~~Peter Kogeones, RIP~~

Owner of the Grocery Diana,
on Halstead Street in Chicago
was the merriest Greek, I ever 
did meet!
He worked day and night and
brought...

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Categories: america, appreciation, chicago, friend,

Chicago, Long, Long Ago

Chicago.Long,long ago.a tribute..

Perfectly sweet, State Street.
The Chicago Theater, beautiful to a fault.
Going to Woolworth's for a twenty-cent chocolate  malt.

No maniacs to fear.
No people walking about with...

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Categories: america, change, chicago, memory,