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Cleveland Poems - Poems about Cleveland


Not Going To Cleveland
I take off my jacket, it’s been a warm day and the heat has followed me into the house. I should be already on my way to Cleveland to a poetry slam, I did promise half-heartedly, but slamming poets means a headache after a long drive. Poetry is an art-form. It’s good to keep reminding myself of that, otherwise I might get the...

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Categories: cleveland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Green Rose In Cleveland
Green Roses do exist. Let me tell you who I am with a significant twist. I represent the beauty and war of a rose. You can read that in the books and poems that I wrote. But please make note. I am the green rose and green is the color of growth. It symbolizes renewal, rebirth and life. I come from a...

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Categories: cleveland, self,
Form: Free verse



Not Going To Cleveland
I take off my jacket, it’s been a warm day and the heat has followed me into the house. I should be already on my way to Cleveland to a poetry slam, I did promise half-heartedly, but slamming poets means a headache after a long drive. There’s lead and gun smoke on my fingers. should have washed them at the range, but the...

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Categories: cleveland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cleveland Lane
When I was younger Cleveland was so big to me. I came close to success a few times but back I just wasn't ready. I had to gain a strong will and some professional knowledge. For me to get where I was going I needed God The fruits of the spirit, a new look with style and polish. I gotta...

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Categories: cleveland, art,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Cleveland Browns
The original Browns are not in Cleveland anymore. They are now known as the Ravens, and they play in Baltimore. A new Browns team built from scratch has taken their place. However, the way they have played has been a big disgrace. Cleveland fans have endured some big-time stormy weather, since the new Browns can't get their act together. The Cavaliers...

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Categories: cleveland, football, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Spoiling Cleveland
SPOILING CLEVELAND While roses belch perfume into the air and Nightingales’ whistles pierce my ears I can't savour the clamorous glamour And odorous charm of the steel mills in Cleveland...

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Categories: cleveland, imagery, satire,
Form: Imagism
Cleveland Birthday
For my special day, I had one aim - The Rock & Rollers Hall of Fame. So I'm here in Cleveland, where we spent The whole day there. (The time just went!) As a bonus, there's a movie fest So we saw a film; we were quite impressed. Had a yummy meal - beer and barbecue And to top it...

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Categories: cleveland, birthday, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Optimism In Cleveland
During last night’s draft coverage, ESPN would reveal that the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles made a deal. At the last minute, Philadelphia sent their first-round pick to Cleveland for two Browns choices in a move that was quick. With pick number twenty-two, the Browns chose Johnny Manziel. This was a move many Browns fans thought was swell. Cleveland folks will...

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Categories: cleveland, football,
Form: Rhyme
Cleveland
the city is closing for the night stores draw their blinds one by one every street is dark save for the dim Downtown streetlights bending at the neck like weighted stems of steel. Rockefellers and Carnegie have built the city in layers: clinics, factories, the rounded arch hotels what is not there than fortune?...

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Categories: cleveland, courage, dedication, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Cleveland
Once a man of steel, cuckolded by foreigners, made to bear a rusty belt And belch hapless smoke in shame. Once a spiderweb of commerce- now a conglomerate of strangers, united by dementia-ridden streets frayed and cracked by Erie’s buffets- but the breakwall soldiers still hold the line. As do the masses, when they can stand the agony of Sundays as crying sots, drenching the gutters...

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Categories: cleveland, home, life,
Form: Ode
Cleveland Contentment
What can I say? You had me from hello… Guess that’s why they called me Content with my Cleveland halo Shining bright and tall With a demeanor so fly… Stars in your eyes from mine to yours There’s so much to explore It’s been awhile but yet still the beginnin’… I love the way you hold me As if it were the last… Give me...

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Categories: cleveland, happiness, life, love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Earle E Cleveland
I remember you and I How we sat to lunch summer after summer I remember you and I The small scope critic and the pearl sweet preacher We lunched in the Bronx, feasted In Manhattan, the wasted Cancer fled, I have not forgotten For then you brimmed my soul with heaven You lived your sermons then, and I Saw faith's ladder and touched the...

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Categories: cleveland, death, dedication, friendship, hopeme,
Form: Verse
Cleveland England - a Tribute
They will read my poem and wonder "Who is this?" But I knew you better Than any who will search and blunder Harnessed to their finite, mortal fetter You are gone, no longer restrained And cumbered by time's clay palace The sprite and child in you sustained Through life, and without carnal malice. I too laughed in your shadow, you pure Bringer and giver...

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Categories: cleveland, death, loss, philosophylove,
Form: Verse

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