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Eastside Poems - Poems about Eastside


Last Days in the Empire
...Spoken Word: “Last Days in the Empire” By Alejandro Diego Z. MA Psych Is America the Next Babylon? They built this dream on a haunted field, Blood in the bricks, but the scars don’t heal. ......

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Categories: eastside, america, bible, destiny, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Trybullyst
...Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow wells to lower ......

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Categories: eastside, adventure, betrayal, film, money,
Form: Ballad



Satirical Euphony
...SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY Hissed her path to say No As amulet dangled on her' dandled Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn As no help came to a hearty hut On the rafter was a treasure kept ......

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Categories: eastside, character,
Form: Free verse
Who Wants Me
...Trying to get in the game my whole life. Don't know what team I'm on. Which one wants me? Who will accept me? Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying to get picked. Maybe th......

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Categories: eastside, community, confidence, confusion, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eastside Marios Restaurant
...A restaurant chosen For the family A group of seven The table chosen The meu in hand We are choosing meals Then enjoy a drink Waiting for our food Conversation begins As we are waiting ......

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Categories: eastside, family, food, together,
Form: Narrative



Tribute To Bas
...Bas’ video of Africa really inspired me Just riding on the Nile river Casually He got me thinking bout my life, my family My roots, my ancestors, my legacy The real eastside--cradle of humanit......

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Categories: eastside, black african american, hip
Form: Monorhyme
Keep Em Laughing
...I thought it was you. I was startled by the tangerine glow that beamed so brilliantly through the bedroom window on the eastside of my house. That's probably not a good place for a window. Es......

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Categories: eastside, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fool Me Once
...She was young, I was old. She was easy, information gold. No she did not have a contract yet. But she knew her school – Eastside Prep. Had met her principal, he’d paid her way For the conferen......

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Categories: eastside, character,
Form: Rhyme
Those Winter Evenings On the Far Eastside
...Those winter evenings on the Far Eastside- remembered still for the aromas of potatoes frying and coal smoke- intermingled in the crisp twilight air. At just about dusk, every evening, all up ......

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Categories: eastside, winter,
Form: Free verse
Goodnight Rome
...Goodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons and your streets that have become as loveless as empty barracks. For you I will never weep. After all, your Senators Who made the deals To keep th......

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Categories: eastside, anger, angst, anxiety, change,
Form: Free verse
Trinity Garden Bloods 4ever
...Trinity Garden Bloods 4ever Poem by Cmack Estevez I grew with friends from Elementary I grew with bloods in Middle School that I knew in 2nd grade. But I never screw up in the poverty North East......

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Categories: eastside, age, best friend, conflict,
Form: Narrative
A Little Bit of Death
...I didn't mind shooting him between the eyes one bit, what made it harder for me was how he pleaded for his life and said he had money and that I didn't have to do this, but he was a killer of the......

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Categories: eastside, adventure, death, drug,
Form: Free verse
Dancing In the Streets
...Come on come on everybody bounce bounce bounce with me I am a hot stepper can't nobody hold me down so set me free Everbody Jam Jam upon sugar hill let your step be on a maximun overdrive skill......

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Categories: eastside, imagination, inspirational, son, song-uplifting,
Form: Ballad
The Underground
...eastside, west side, uptown and downtown riding the iron rail on the underground the A, the B and the C the F, the E and the D the1, the 2, the 3, 4 and the 5 the underground rail where New York......

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Categories: eastside, adventure, places, urban, city,
Form: List

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