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City Block Poems - Poems about City Block

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 G......

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Categories: city block, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member It’s Coming
...Computers computing have pinpointed here This planet, it seems, has something to fear I look to the skies and they’re beautiful…… now The stars are quite static, yet I mop my brow A spacecraft ......

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Categories: city block, angst, fear, space,
Form: Rhyme



The Halfway Glass
...A city block vendor chimes pleasantries prouder than Muzak or an unseen crow in the background elevating alarm clock music in the caws uncredited and angrily growing louder. A walkway narrows ......

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Categories: city block, crush,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enigma
... "I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which," ... James A. Owen I am a trapped absolute in an abstract I am a trapped abstract in an absolute I am not in a trap of inescapable odds made ......

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Categories: city block, allusion,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant
...Date: September 2050 Damian stood at the front door Ushering everybody out to the waiting Limousine. "Come on my People Be quick about it wifies!" Sidney And Saderi were willing to go al......

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Categories: city block, best friend, birth, husband,
Form: Alliteration



They Dream of Dayton
...Downtown Dayton cityscape can be seen clearly (on a clear day) from the grassy knoll on top of the Woodlands cemetery. Most of the more fancy mausoleums face any other way though, as if the s......

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Categories: city block, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mike Hammer
...I was a self-admitted misanthrope unwilling to lose or drop a case. I often threw a rope-a-dope just to win; I never lose face. I worked the dark streets for dark, and even darker, clients ......

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Categories: city block, anger, dark, death, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enough With the Fireworks
...Fireworks are still popping in my neighborhood Long after July 4th; I keep thinking they’ll stop, And hope so soon for the sake of brotherhood! Celebrations are meaningful on their s......

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Categories: city block, firework,
Form: Rhyme
Indian Girl
...Indian Girl The next train is to India to a big crowded city, Calcutta. I am a Desi girl called Prittima Desmona. I am thirty two and live near a small town called Kajoy. You may ask who I am. I......

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Categories: city block, dedication, happy, travel,
Form: Verse
The Time Machine
...The time machine is ready to start, noises of wheels turning and clocks ticking, gizmos of uncertain origins squeaking along, a matter of several minutes all will change, the man sitting in the e......

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Categories: city block, fantasy, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Man On His Cane
...The old man could barely walk Bent over on his cane And there beside him Man's Best Friend It wasn't in him to complain. One-half a step -sheer agony For the old man on his cane But he must ......

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Categories: city block, dog, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Did Discover a Long Huge Dock
...Did Discover A Long Huge Dock We did discover a long huge dock, Which was big as entire city block; Here and there, And everywhere, That had left us in a state of shock. Jim Horn......

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Categories: city block, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
If Poets Ruled the World
...IF POETS RULED THE WORLD If poets ruled the world laws would be written with panache and... oh yes, compassion; civil liberty in fashion. Carpetbaggers fold up your tents and cash in. Poet......

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Categories: city block, community, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Scent To School
...Walking to grade school without a care Each morning at the same spot Freshly baked bread scent filled the air Straight from the oven, savory hot Aroma so sweet, I never forgot Laub's Bakery, a......

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Categories: city block, adventure, food, growing up,
Form: Quintain (English)
More Or Less
... One of my favorite sayings, one you may have heard before Is from a movie that's set in the Depression era, it's my personal verbal encore It expresses my exasperated feeling ......

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Categories: city block, political,
Form: Political Verse

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