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City Born
City Born Poems - Poems about City Born
Stars above
...Here is the city born with stars from above Gleaming the soft colors of love Here where stars meet humans asleep Slumbering down in the untouchable deep Stars far above have fallen near below Wh......
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Trapper Jones
Categories:
city born,
city, light, night, star,
Form:
Lyric
Rival Brews
...Local breweries abound And in New York there can be found Beers from Brooklyn and from Queens And all the boroughs in-betweens. My spouse and I, both city-born, Love I.P.A.’s, so we were torn ......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
city born,
drink,
Form:
Rhyme
Appalachian Heart
...City born Northerners, Kiss the last rays of sunlight, With pampered lips While those of us born and raised In the south, Appalachian – We dust off the melting sun With a laugh that sheds th......
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
city born,
appreciation, city, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Black Tantrum
...Something yond is sore to proveth, judging those who is't disagreeth, hurst nay hast peat swamp. People breath their owneth blood, Ulcers replaceth green air? Benumbed lungs and panshard dea......
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Yudho Sasongko
Categories:
city born,
blue, pain, sad,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Heart Swore An Oath, Never, Never Again
...Heart Swore An Oath, Never, Never Again When the joy overcame the epic pain Heart swore an oath - never, never again Letting life and love's great loss break this heart Torn asunder, lost and r......
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Robert Lindley
Categories:
city born,
art, deep, hurt, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Slip of the Tongue
...I was a city born and city bred young fellow, whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar. Oh yes I had seen grass, but out on a footy ground and my entertainment was drinking at a nightc......
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Lindsay Laurie
Categories:
city born,
humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old Covered Bridge
...When I was ten I got a bike one Christmas I learned to ride that morning, though the snow was several inches on the ground Though the gravel road was hard to ride, it was straight and full of ......
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John Watt
Categories:
city born,
age, father, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
That Extra Mile
...My best friend is like my right arm: city born with a country charm. And trying to steer me from harm: if I stray, he sounds the alarm. I've grown accustomed to his face: it's impossib......
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Emile Pinet
Categories:
city born,
8th grade, care, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Born and Bred
... Goshen ghettofied, born and bred Yeah, I’m the teen darkie with the big nose and the nappy head Rolling with my homies on an asphalt bounce, with the music on blast Yeah, we’re the......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
city born,
identity, perspective, racism, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Abe Lincoln As a Democrat
...Abe Lincoln As A democrat © Ben Burton 8-25-2014 The evil of men being sold Long past, since Mr. Lincoln's fight Still, dark suspicion blooms and grows And loots the cause of civil rights T......
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Ben Burton
Categories:
city born,
black african american, political,
Form:
I do not know?
The Plastic Maori
...I'm viewed as a plastic Maori, because of the way I choose to live life, moving with westerns trends, away from traditional life. This is all I have known, being city born, I did try to lear......
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Murray Mahauariki
Categories:
city born,
life, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Lt. Willy On Trial
...* This poem was inspired by the court marshall of Lt. William Calley for his leadership in the attack on My Lai, Vietnam. For more info, see http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/myl......
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Carolyn Devonshire
Categories:
city born,
wargreen, life,
Form:
Narrative