Empire State Building and Lightning
How many times has the Empire State Building been struck by lightning?
I was guessing three or four then I remembered how old she is.
So, I guessed twenty times.
If I took that times five, I would be a lot closer to an accurate guess.
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Categories:
empire state, storm,
Form: Free verse
Wide Open Skies
(Entered for Contest: Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist. Sponsor: Sara Jama.
Deadline 8th April 2025)
Do you remember, those wide open skies?
when we were younger, with wide open eyes
the world was our view, from the Empire State
or walking that walk, on the Golden Gate
days when tomorrows, were never ending
long before sorrow, had started trending
maybe I will
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Categories:
empire state, 10th grade, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts of the Empire State Building
They talk about me in Cincinnati and Kalamazoo
In Texas, Idaho, Wyoming, Russia and Timbuktu.
They like my photos but few travel to New York City.
Where the Broadway shows are spectacular and witty.
A skyscraper, what is that? Asks a child from Chad.
I’m the Empire State Building, beautiful and bad.
Decorated each December in lights of green and red.
Come
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Categories:
empire state, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Empire State of Mind
We can end this war in the world
without trace of bloodshed and
dark tears leaking on earth's surface.
Our bodies shall not be pages of bruises,
Peace is possible among humanity.
Our tomorrow shall be written with roses,
we can turn here a paradise earth,
Heaven on a graceful feet of the earth;
tears apart, weeping shall know no more
of our weakness
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Categories:
empire state, africa, age, art, bereavement,
Form: Blank verse
Bigger Than the Empire State
Bigger than the Empire State
Its a very big world out there
Bigger than the empire state
Magnified by the problems man's mind doth create
If god was sat examining us on an old park bench
Carefully watching his creation
Every human nation
Do you think his face would mask any elation
Personally I think he would head for the nearest
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Categories:
empire state, faith
Form: Free verse