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Jacksonville Poems - Poems about Jacksonville

Premium Member 'Once-Amber-Fields'
... In the home of the ‘free and the brave’ live cowards come out of their caves Proud to fly the Nazi flag in Jacksonville 'Once-amber-fields’ turned dunghills ......

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Categories: jacksonville, america, moving on, sad,
Form: Couplet
1960
... Johnny Cash gives it away for free, John K says he would like to be Prez. Richard Nixon will run against him, so the republican party says. Lamar Cox gets 44th KO, ‘The Stilt’ scores 58 in o......

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Categories: jacksonville, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member JL
...Joyful, Jubilant, Lovely Life, Lauding Jazz, Leading Lessons, Likes Jacksonville Jaguars.......

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Categories: jacksonville, games, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Lovebugs Aka Honeymoon Flies
...lovebugs has taken on a new meaning now that I live in Jacksonville, Florida where honeymoon flies congregate in hundreds or should I say millions? flying in tandem, like two-headed weirdos smas......

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Categories: jacksonville, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Love,Pain,Passports
...Baltimore cashmere fiskars tee-off Building lines center points Centerville La Prada orange Normal sesmatics North Carolina persuasions evident in my speech Forward Ultra Plus Leaning torwards con......

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Categories: jacksonville, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up
...Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up! Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania all the other ones (that follow below)... them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one. ......

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Categories: jacksonville, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Difficult Decision
...We were blessed to visit with our grandchildren and had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day We ate, we laughed, we played a game before they went on their way. Two of our grandchildren are at the Uni......

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Categories: jacksonville, humor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Good Life
...Running the 95 from Jacksonville to Richmond On a Sunday afternoon in June The thermometer and the road signs read the same Sunny and hot, the miles were winding away When the gas tank and the ho......

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Categories: jacksonville, america, car, family, food,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Gps Attacks
...How we love our Global Positioning System for getting us to a place…and back but what are we to do…when our GPS attacks? First of all let me come clean…I admit with my GPS…sometimes I like to pla......

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Categories: jacksonville, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Throttle Up, Challenger
...Synchronicity woven by fate’s volatile hands Gave rise to calamity in deceptive, calm skies Creating tragedy so harsh that reason defies Into a nation’s sad heart, a mortal arrow lands ......

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Categories: jacksonville, grief, space,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
My Respnse To Church Questions
...St. James Discernment Question Answers Thank you answering these questions and helping the Discernment Committee with it's work. From: James Thomas Horn #1 Remember a moment that was a high po......

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Categories: jacksonville, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Thought Irma Was Over
...I Thought Irma Was Over By Franklin Price 9/11/2017 – 5:26 PM I thought Irma was over When she turned right at the coast To cross the width of Florida With an eye I thought was toast She ......

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Categories: jacksonville, rain, storm, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Irma Pulled a Fast One
...Irma Pulled a Fast One By Franklin Price 9/11/2017 – 6:07AM Irma pulled a fast one Just before I closed my eyes Took a right turn to the East To sooner see the sun arise Was supposed to go......

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Categories: jacksonville, rain, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The First Time Ever
..."The Lobster House" on the St. Johns River in Downtown-Downtown 1950s Jacksonville, Florida, was where "The Creaturefrom the Black Lagoon" crawled up from the deep onto a riverfront deck to ho......

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Categories: jacksonville, adventure, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Hunkering Down
...Ready or not here he comes Best you batten down the hatches Unless you were one of the smart ones to run Like a Coon Hound in July chasing rabbits Alright, alright, alright As you turn and fa......

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Categories: jacksonville, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse

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