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Dayton Poems - Poems about Dayton

Premium Member Virtual Insanity Becomes World Reality
... Virtual Insanity Becomes World Reality The accursed news, so obviously painful to this poetess! That we earthlings decided were in need no of divine intervention. Yes…wanting none of ......

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Categories: dayton, august, conflict, feelings, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How the Airplane was Invented
...“Orville, let’s go to Kitty Hawk - And make this trip by 6 o’clock” “Wilbur, from Dayton and back again By 6 o’clock, we’ll need a plane.”......

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Categories: dayton, humor,
Form: Epigram



Tied up in the Moment
...Tied up in the Moment A beautiful women layed out on a large bed with red Dayton silk sheets, pillows everywhere, her silky locks cascading down onto the pillow beside her as she looks over at this ......

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Categories: dayton, angel, anger, best friend,
Form: Free verse
No Bird ever soared in a calm
...How can I fly like a bird he dreamed this man and his brother, with little formal education. So they dreamed and watched, they studied and read. Dickens and Twain, Virgil and Plutarch also. Th......

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Categories: dayton, history, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Male Footle Slang Names: Part 2
...So Risque Racy Casey His Mind’s on the Moon Spacey Casey Great Sprinter Darter Carter Crybaby Bawlin’ Colin Always in a Rush Boltin’ Coltin Puppies for Sale Dani......

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Categories: dayton, boy,
Form: Footle



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: dayton, poetry,
Form: Free verse
On Lacking Sticktoitiveness
...Most of my Lix spittle + four additional anniversaries since exiting birth canal as full term newborn re: minimally viable existence post doc severance umbilical cord, nevertheless yours tr......

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Categories: dayton, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hellboy's Fight Record
...Hellboy danced with the best of them, With a record here, though incomplete... Winning almost all of the time, What a miraculous feat! Date Opponent Location Result -------------------------......

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Categories: dayton, appreciation,
Form: List
Premium Member Let's Keep Hugging
..."I am a rock I am an island ......

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Categories: dayton, how i feel, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member O Dayton My Dayton
...Memorial Day mother nature’s reckoning is gain worth such loss de-constructing life with limb Collision course toward ourselves 05/29/2021......

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Categories: dayton, anxiety, death, memorial day,
Form: Tanka
Midwest Twists
...We accept tornadoes here, expect them, tick them off as they pass by like demon dreidels. Usually they are not a big deal unless they are. Spring culls its little lambs in all sorts of ways. ......

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Categories: dayton, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Virtual Insanity
... So obviously,painful to this poetess! That we earthlings need divine intervention. Yet~wanting none of God's attention? Oh, indeed some will scoff and pay no heed. Get real, my friends! H......

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Categories: dayton, america, angst, patriotic, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After Columbine
...It was 20 years ago…the year was 1999 and we thought the world would change….after Columbine We hoped something would be done after children were gunned down with their books We thought the wor......

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Categories: dayton, grief,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cowards Not Heroes
...COWARDS, NOT HEROESv Cowards, not heroes, Call them what they are Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children, people both near and far Cowards not heroes, not terrorists, Call them what they are ......

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Categories: dayton, violence,
Form: Rhyme
And Suddenly Not Being
...I The form we take In the shape of a life From trumpet birth blasts To the final shadow sighs The faithful leap From a Dayton hill To silver supersonic flight A mountain of yellowing Paper w......

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Categories: dayton, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy

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