Long Street corner Poems
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LA SewersWhen I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
street corner, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
street corner, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Blood Stained On Market StreetThere must have been several of these incidents
Occurring in towns and cities all over the country
From month to month and from year to year
But to experience one at such a close range
Was enough to cause...
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Categories:
street corner, anger, bereavement, city, death, environment, farewell, heart,
Form:
Narrative
Platitudes of ExactitudePlatitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude
Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude
That the truth will protrude
From a form that just wants to be misconstrued
Everything...
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Categories:
street corner, international, love,
Form:
Rhyme
I'M BackLast year you beat me up
And poured vinegar in my cup
Last year you humiliate me
And hire criminals to torment me.
Last year you deny my friends and families
The natural right to be happy
My children went to...
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Categories:
street corner, blessing, character, corruption, courage, happy, miracle, time,
Form:
Free verse
Tell Me What You HearI have been listening to the different sounds around
The town and they can tell you where you are bound
I have been listening to the sounds around the town
And they make me want to frown,
good...
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Categories:
street corner, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, community, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Narrative
SweatThe sun is burning the passion out of me
And water is springing up all over me
It’s dripping, dripping, dripping
It is coming through my pores
And they are asking me for more
Purified and sanctified water, I...
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Categories:
street corner, community, confidence, courage, desire, endurance, friendship love,
Form:
Narrative
Hey YouHey you out there
Life hasn't been fair
I see you,
This is something true
On that street corner you stand
Need a hand
This corner is important at this point of time in your life.
So much strife
Do you...
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Categories:
street corner, angel, april, bangla,
Form:
Rhyme
CornerHey you out there
Life hasn't been fair
I see you,
This is something true
On that street corner you stand
Need a hand
This corner is important at this point of time in your life.
So much strife
Do you...
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Categories:
street corner, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
Mean In GreenI stood on the corner this morning
Absorbing the fresh morning air
listening attentively to the morning news
That has everyone so upset and confused
The morning sun is just peeping out
with its orange and yellowish color
Stirring lazy bodies...
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Categories:
street corner, confidence, emotions, encouraging, endurance, green, humanity, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Being a Cool Kid• By daniel miltz •
You're not born with cool, you've got to find it. A leather jacket that fits like a glove knows it. Cool is an act. Cool is by learning to stand out...
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Categories:
street corner, cool, crazy,
Form:
Bio
Girl RisingBased on a true story from a television documentary on Human Trafficking...an international crime with participants from a broad spectrum of society...occuring on a daily basis. I have only seen documentaries on the trafficking of...
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Categories:
street corner, abuse, children, dedication, fear, freedom, girl, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Little AngelQuenching my thirst
from the river that would flood
I walked inside the green lush
that was still untouched
loner as i was,vagabond they named
devoured whatever i could,my everyday game
marooned and castaway
stealing and scrapping kept the hunger at bay
I...
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Categories:
street corner, birth,
Form:
Free verse
The Window Of My SoulShe stood at the window all day watching the children at play, she never leaves that room she stands there morning, night and noon, and the only time she leaves that place is when she...
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Categories:
street corner, animal, blessing, business, change, community, culture, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Chicago's SinAnother body dropped as the evil ran through the night
He was on a spree to start a war
The screams blistered the silence
As the metal hit the floor,
As the metal hit the...
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Categories:
street corner, america, chicago, corruption, evil, fire, loss, violence,
Form:
Ballad
You Have Been CautionedCAUTION:
the contents of this coffee cup may be HOT
please be careful not to burn yourself or others
the contents may also be wet
spillage may result in slipping hazards
the shorting out of...
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Categories:
street corner, satire, social, may,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bent Shattered and ProudShe doesn’t remember what
she loved about me
so i hold her in my elbows
as if she needed someone to save her
and i hate that i’ve always believed in
things i couldn’t touch
tree house ladder i climbed you
with...
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Categories:
street corner, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, loss, love, nostalgia, passion, people,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 8the future cannot be but a computation
and that's where all the problems start
one after another all at once
how are your levels of satisfaction arrived at
personally generally universally consistently
how good is your math
how good can your...
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Categories:
street corner, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Janice Looks In the MirrorJanice’s Looks in the Mirror
Like a pendulum from an orange clockwork
The agent high above on raucous prayers
She hung high and dry suspended in drought
Resembling a shot of liquid poppies injected
The heroine succumbed in Noah’s wet...
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Categories:
street corner, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Night, Twenty First DecemberThe dry breeze moves gently
Infecting the Hamlet with its cool temper
Even the birds shake and generate calmly
A young lady sat at the front of a mansion
Her oily body shines with the aid of the moon....
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Categories:
street corner, daughter, sad, sympathy, day, house, me, parents,
Form:
Ballad
No House Built On a Bridge, Part Two2.
"Those who have gone astray, whom [the Holy Spirit] itself begets, usually go
astray also because of the Spirit. Thus, by this one and the same breath, the
fire blazes and is put out."
--- From the...
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Categories:
street corner, philosophy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nemesis Bastardsthe heavens had fallen
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot in the past the other on the gas
while his muse...
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Categories:
street corner, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
ScarsI can see the smiles all over your face and something is telling me that you have found a new date, what could be so revealing when a new year’s resolution throws you all over...
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Categories:
street corner, business, change, community, courage, dedication, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
LifeThere sat an old man on the
porch. He was long and gray.
Skin that looked similar to a
dried raisin. Dark as a wet
pecan. His eyes a light green
color. You know his...
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Categories:
street corner, black african american
Form:
ABC
Time To Stand Up For Human RightsIt's time,
For you to stand in line,
And take a stand this time,
While there is still time,
For human rights to define.
It is all to easy to define,
The rights of those who think they deserve to...
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Categories:
street corner, age, care, character, community, confidence, courage, love
Form:
Political Verse