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Knoxville Poems - Poems about Knoxville

Premium Member Ode To Loretta Lee
...Loretta Lee can entertain herself better than most people I see I check on old people who live in suburbs of Knoxville, Tennessee. some are sad and lonely, harpy, yelling “poor me, woe is me.” thi......

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Categories: knoxville, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Twits Terrible Nitwits
...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits. townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits. their name is easy to learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz. ......

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Categories: knoxville, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Lisa Edwards
...I am appalled..Sickened.' uncomprehending..! Why a medical facility 'namley fort sanders' Small s...' Intentional..) discharged this suffeing Woman..? How could they.? Are they a care facilty? Or......

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Categories: knoxville, anti bullying, betrayal, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Around the Us On a Greyhound Bus - Part One
...I once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus, My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss, It was, by far, the most awesome adventure I ever took Three changes of clothes, lots of......

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Categories: knoxville, adventure, america, places, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shooting In Knoxville
... Here's another shooting incident we have to see: This was at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee. There was a wounded police officer and one fatality. No known students were counted as......

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Categories: knoxville, death, murder,
Form: Monorhyme



Deadly Aneurysm
...Your leg was infected and the infection spread. You had an abdominal aneurysm and you're dead. The infection spread to your stomach and you hid your illness from all of us. You didn't want to go t......

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Categories: knoxville, anniversary, death, loss, mom,
Form: Rhyme
My Night On Thunder Road - a Parody
...A profession that's not the norm. It borders on the absurd. In the mountains and down the hollers, powerful engines could be heard. I decided to try something new. Put my driving skills to the......

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Categories: knoxville, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resting In These Tennessee Hills
...Resting In These Tennessee Hills Lazy mornings in these Tennessee hills Horned owl in tree behind house hoots all night Sometimes annoys but often gifts a thrill As country-fired moon sends us ......

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Categories: knoxville, appreciation, beauty, feelings, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
New Madrid
...Well I love Tennessee, the mountains, the rivers and the valleys. Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville. But Memphis is a disaster Waiting to happen again like it did in the late 19th century when......

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Categories: knoxville, crazy, natural disasters, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Friday's At the Farout Mansion
...Best to get there early and don’t forget some food and drink. It’s Friday again and time to celebrate. It’s hat week, Carmen Miranda’s birthday, toga, toga, toga. We all had another week taking ca......

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Categories: knoxville, celebration, food, humor, memory,
Form: Free verse
Sneedville, Tennessee
...My Mom was born and raised in Sneedville, Tennessee. She was very special and I loved her and she loved me. She was born in an ambulance that was parked on the side of the road. Everybody always l......

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Categories: knoxville, history, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Searching For Julia
...Sandburg saw you more than a century ago in prairie-town Galesburg - an old lady on the porch - unbothered by the whooping cries of ball-playing boys. Strangely, you had become a missing piece in t......

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Categories: knoxville, dedication, poets, woman,
Form: Free verse
Southern Hospitality
...What's so great about Southern hospitality is when he or she is welcomed by the entire family from the South. Southern hospitality is also considered a warm welcome for all, that includes tourists ......

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Categories: knoxville, epicpeople, people,
Form: Epic
Knoxville, Tennessee
...Knoxville, Tennessee, is where I was born 23 years ago. The city is home to the Volunteers of the University of Tennessee. Knoxville has almost everything any tourist like: there's shops, theaters,......

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Categories: knoxville, epiccity,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Sabbath Day In Alder's Gulch, Montana!
...Glitterin' gold wuz struck along Alder's Gulch in eighteen sixty-three! Potential prospectors came frum as fer away as Knoxville, Tenn-o-see! Hordes uv soiled doves and gamblers migrated to the Gul......

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Categories: knoxville, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme

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