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Erie Poems - Poems about Erie


Hugh, Ron, Eery
When Hugh and Ron got drunk together and pissed a lake of mighty size, their eery neighbor also spilled it and let his eery waters rise. By far superior was another with depths of thirteen hundred feet. His superiority was awesome which Hugh, Ron, Eery couldn’t beat. Below them lay Ontario Lago, a bloke whose name is not much fun because no matter how I...

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Categories: erie, funny, humorous, water,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Pike Night
In golden dawn of day Fish the color of lake and sky Swam Lake Erie wide in eye. Twenty thousand years past Fins chased by glaciers: Blue pike survived Until too many waves of our breed Swept them from the lake With taint and nets of greed In a hundred years-long dusk. Too much like Sandburg’s Buffalo Dusk The Blue pike and their fishermen are gone: Too...

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Categories: erie, 10th grade, america, animal,
Form: Free verse



Erie Hotel
Around 2004, my family and I started going on vacations to Erie twice a summer. Accompanying us on these excursions were the Jenkinses-- family friends who were more like actual family. In addition to our typical week at the beach, they joined us for a sneak peek weekend earlier in the summer where we...

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Categories: erie, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Other
Premium Member Erie Love
ERIE LOVE Erie yet ever so beautiful Your love runs through me Captured is my mind you see My heart so readily-plentiful 8/26/18 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Categories: erie, anxiety, appreciation, i love
Form: Free verse
For My Friends In Erie
For my friends in Erie, PA. If you've found this poem, congratulations. You've just solved my most intricate social puzzle to date. As your reward, you now have access to all my angsty works of "art" (dare I call it that) from my teenage years. You also have all my more recent "I'm bored and alone"...

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Categories: erie, corruption, growing up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winter Paints December On Lake Erie
If you look closely, you will see the masterpiece Winter painted along mighty Erie’s shore in the darkness, well into the early morning light. You will see his fondness for delicate shades of gray, How one by one he bends and sheaths the tall ornamental grass in rounded silvery whiteness, and how he paints ripply footprints at the water’s edge. If you look...

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Categories: erie, christmas, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lake Cliffs of Erie
Standing on the edge of a cliff toking a smooth fat spliff waiting to catch sight of a skiff Floating it's way on by Watching the majestic girl soar no longer a beast of lore wish for increasingly more She passes a look on the fly Brown with white head and tail power that will never fail enchanting how she sets sail Makes me start to...

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Categories: erie, nature, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Erie Lackawanna
The Erie Lackawanna. Was a friendly mamma! The friendly service route. Ran across the Southern Tier of New York. Then across the Susquehanna. Choo Choo went the train. Down along the lower part of the state. The great flood of 72... Caused a bankrupt attitude, to date. Now the tracks, they lay at rest. Silencing all..by whos rails they quest.. Railroad Poem By Kim Robin...

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Categories: erie, america, places, satire,
Form: ABC
Erie
I owe so much to you When you pulled at me, Tugged me from my toiling, When I was crouched low, In the kitchen, blurry choke of tears I saw the outline of your peninsula Etched in florescent blue in my mind A little red star on a map Such a hard drive (for me and the Ford)...

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Categories: erie, image, inspiration, strength, summer,
Form: Ode
It's Midnight On the Erie Canal
It's midnight on the Erie Canal, And I'm alone, Going home, Wood Creaks, I seek, Something, To bring, Peace, Unrealistically black sky, And it's quiet, Too quiet, No cliche' intended, No sound to me is candid, Upon this water, As I mutter, Words that reassure, My destination has not found me, And though my fear has not yet bound me, My nerves are shot, But fear is not, An option yet for me, I must stay...

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Categories: erie, adventurefear,
Form: Narrative
Erie
The house wasn't much to look at, Although it was grand in its day. But we never got tired of visiting, Or seeing the family on Sunday. The floors were old and creaky, The walls were strong and tall. The yard was ever the smallest, Yet, we still found a way to play ball. The clock in the kitchen kept pendulum time, Its gentle...

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Categories: erie, childhood, family, happiness, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Remembering Erie...
The house wasn't much to look at, Although it was grand in its day. But we never got tired of visiting, Or seeing the family on Sunday. The floors were old and creaky, The walls were strong and tall. The yard was ever the smallest, Yet, we still found a way to play ball. The clock in the kitchen kept pendulum...

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Categories: erie, introspectionold, old,
Form: Light Verse

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