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Hoboken Poems - Poems about Hoboken

Premium Member Reminder
...There are stories I've put behind me Like the fellow that left me unkindly, But if I need a token Of that guy from Hoboken, The string on my finger reminds me!......

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Categories: hoboken, break up, cute, heartbreak,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Half Past Giggle Time
...It's half past giggle time Around these happy parts It always begins with a silly grin That's the way it usually starts Then just like rolling thunder Much laughter fills the air Bunc......

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Categories: hoboken, giggle,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member New Jersey Gal
...I met a young lady in Hoboken Actually, her good leg was broken She used her cane, Mileage to gain Went by bus with a Hoboken token. written December 28, 2021......

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Categories: hoboken, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Lad From Hoboken
...Oh i once knew a lad from Hoboken, a lad from Hoboken, a lad from Hoboken Zip a dee da day o This lad from Hoboken, this lad from Hoboken He loved to sing and he lived to dance This lad from ......

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Categories: hoboken, death, death of a
Form: Ballad
The State of the Art of the State
...Hoboken is broken and Nobody's joken' so Just buy a token and get out of town .........

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Categories: hoboken, political, satire,
Form: Political Verse



The State of the Art of the State
...Hoboken is broken and nobody's jokin' so just buy a token and get out of town !!!......

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Categories: hoboken, political,
Form: Political Verse
Prisoners
...Prisoners of their own success Their world now micro-sized Fan adulation to excess Their love is just disguised Their objects of affection Live their lives inside a bubble Leaving t......

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Categories: hoboken, celebrity, courage, society,
Form: Rhyme
Dissembling Offerings
... He never brooked a lie that couldn’t be spoken Spiffed up with a good spit shine Tin promise made was a buffalo wooden token Re-tale sale, it ain’t worth a dime From Niagra Falls to th......

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Categories: hoboken, character, identity, people, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Blu-Sic Wanderlust
...1. Hoboken (cost: faces) green listlessness falls a cobalt bakery 5 westward arms mists Montana purchases atrophy azure turned golden Midas go-go 4 melting faces ultramarine gallows repudiate ......

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Categories: hoboken, blue, surreal, world,
Form: I do not know?
We
...We who watched, We who survived, We 300 at the Hoboken triage at 11:00 A.M. only to meet 3 survivors. We who lost 8 in our building, 58 in our town, and thousands across the river. We who coul......

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Categories: hoboken, community, death, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Front Grill of a Big Mac Truck
...After dining at the finest of Maw and Paw restaurants Frequented by men in trucks Outside I slipped on the gravel drive And as would be my luck The LARGE cowboy belt I'm so proud of Latched on......

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Categories: hoboken, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Half Past Giggle Time
...It's half past giggle time Around these happy parts It always begins with a silly grin That's the way it usually starts Then just like rolling thunder Much laughter fills the air Bunches of ......

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Categories: hoboken, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Misunderstood, Homeless and Desperate
...Gypsies garbed in colorful robes fortune tellers on the seaside boardwalk sneers they get from nonbelievers “Vagrants,” they call tramps hobos from Hoboken to Alcatraz quietly passing th......

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Categories: hoboken, people, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hoboken Frankie
...For the past several years, you have not been around. However, we can still hear your immortal sound. Your humble beginnings were in Hoboken, New Jersey. Show business began by singing with Tommy Dor......

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Categories: hoboken, dedication, music,
Form: Rhyme
Sunset Grace
...Staring teary eyed and awed from within our atmospheric cocoons, we witnessed the appearance of the first of seven dancing moons. As Primora, the closest sun, sank into the marbled vapor of the no......

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Categories: hoboken, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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