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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

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

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

Categories: cleveland, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

Categories: cleveland, art,
Form: Epic

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

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

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

Categories: cleveland, birthday, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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