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Floridians Poems - Poems about Floridians

Premium Memberfrom hillbillies to beach bums

...We were hillbillies when we lived in the north
But now that we are Floridians, we have to come forth
Admit that we love wearing pajamas and nighties all day
When I go outside, my attire scares the...
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Categories: floridians, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow to prepare for Summer reading classes in Florida

...Summer reading classes begins June through August this is a great fun way for the entire family to get involved enhancing students ability to stay focus preparing for the upcoming school year I adore...
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Categories: floridians, allah,
Form: Manqabat



Premium MemberSandbags Pray for Hurricane Victims of Florida

...We are hunkered down again 
as we watch the land cry 
evacuation gathering medication 
pets helping others as neighbors 
become first responders helping 
others checking on elderly residents 
r...
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Categories: floridians, allah, faith, freedom, meaningful,
Form: Hamd

Strange News From Florida

...The alligators will not stay in the water,
they head for strip malls, for chicken noodle joints
or sports bars for fish taco or spicy wings.
They get their nails done in a Korean salon
paying in ...
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Categories: floridians, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Legendary Kingdom of Florida

...You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another blue swimming pool.
You can almost cross the peninsul...
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Categories: floridians, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAlert White Floridians

...Beware, if your skin color is other than brown!
    Kamala Harris announced that in town.

    Save people of color first, that’s equity?
    So, if she lived there, she has superiority?

    H...
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Categories: floridians, america, discrimination, irony, rights,
Form: Couplet

Sweep Stake

...Floridians love a palm tree
With fronds as pretty as can be
Along came Ian
Blowin' and peein'
And now there's nothing else to see...
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Categories: floridians, weather,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMore Little Things

...I’ve said this over and over again because I believe it to be true
most of our enjoyment in life comes from the little things we do.

Little moments…little adventures…little wonders
that somehow ...
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Categories: floridians, happiness, joy,
Form: Verse

Florida Rain Part 1

...Florida Rain Part 1

Robby is sitting in my room on a chair one early evening reminiscing about her thirteen years in Florida. “In Florida, we don’t ring bells, we knock. But there’s a limit to how...
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Categories: floridians, age, courage, environment, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIrma 9-9-2017

...Irma 9/9/2017
By Franklin Price

Since my last inscription 
Irma's moved on quite a lot
Today's the day she's moving north
To show us what  she's got

She now is over Cuba
Deciding what to d...
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Categories: floridians, death, natural disasters, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFleeing Irma

...FLEEING IRMA

spotlight moon, full, like an Old Testament cloud, leading
Floridians forth, not into the desert, but away from the wrath
of Irma.  bumper to bumper, neighbors from pilot to caboose...
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Categories: floridians, car, people, religious, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberHurricane Irma

...Hurricane Irma is barreling down with its monster storm, 
Churning 185 mile an hour winds that have eerily formed.
The U.S. is afraid what it will do when it makes landfall.
Unfortunately forecast...
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Categories: floridians, natural disasters, scary, storm,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFloridians Asking Forgiveness

...In a calm storm
the sea is waiting for refreshment.
The calm is a prelude
to more than peace.
Two times the lighthouse blinked,
abrupt in its stillness,
shy in its intention.

There, the ever...
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Categories: floridians, sea,
Form: Free verse

Free Cee the Empire Great

...THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New York kind of day
Where the sun may shine but the air is never clea...
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Categories: floridians, angst, new york,
Form: Quatrain

Free Cee the Empire Great

...THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New York kind of day
Where the sun may shine but the air is never clea...
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Categories: floridians, angst, new york,
Form: Quatrain

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