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Long Beach Poems - Poems about Long Beach

Premium Member FOR THE GIRL WHO NEVER KNEW
...I placed all of which I am in your hands Dreaming of the gulls in Long Beach Your letter had the allure Of perfume and whiskey Salty kisses at midnight I wrote words for you Carried aloft by S......

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Categories: long beach, 7th grade, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Passages on Pages of Time
...Used books were sold each semester. Los Angeles City College bookstore, and California State University, Long Beach ... They, too, sold used books. I've been in possession of some - Students fel......

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Categories: long beach, adventure, appreciation, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Bio



Premium Member I Dreamt of You
...I dreamt of you Just us two Praying, fasting, climbing, as Chambers of my heart stayed aglow - Soaked in serenity, Vulnerable, yet I was hoping for the clearing. I dreamt of you California's......

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Categories: long beach, appreciation, blessing, dedication, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am At Peace
...The yellow lambent moon sent its rays across the shimmering sea. A balmy breeze moved the waves in a rolling fashion towards the beach. Crabs hurried and dived into the foam. Distant horns soun......

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Categories: long beach, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Just To Hot
...we are from long beach play ball and teach love to boardwalk and talk burning up from sun hard to run hard to lay a beach cot its JUST TO HOT......

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Categories: long beach, adventure,
Form: Prose Poetry



Am a Beach Bummer
...am from long beach loves to teach loves the summer loves to run and hot sun am a BEACH BUMMER......

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Categories: long beach, adventure,
Form: Prose Poetry
Took Cab To See Dull and Drab Cold Slab
...We went in a cab to see cold slab, That did appear to be dull and drab; Letters were distinct when viewed; So much sadness there we ensued. Tombstones arranged row after row; All around green......

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Categories: long beach, allegory, analogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member From West Coast To East Coast
...Lavender smell of Long Beach once more eclectic vibes suffused the air sheer curtains twiddled by Gulf breeze Big sky, green of pines nostalgia rained supremely pure irises seventy years stron......

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Categories: long beach, addiction, adventure, blessing, change,
Form: Haiku
Lost-At-Sea
...Snowflakes dance along the weary bough The grey sky shows a clearing The sand plays on the long beach now Red Kites dive with daring Sea grass is greener at this time The light is so white it ......

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Categories: long beach, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snoop Dogg
...Born Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., became "Snoop Dogg" Murder was once the case they gave him, dawg Tha Doggfather. Iconic rapper and weed-lover, fo' shizzle...

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Categories: long beach, art, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Tiempo Profundo
... to my son, Tito A handful of sand in the angel's palm, how often you strummed and sifted the metaphor of Long Beach (since you were four and rolled and unrolled and jotted down t......

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Categories: long beach, absence, angel, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Wrong-Way Corrigan
...One fine July morn in '38 pilot Corrigan cruised up in the blue. He set the tabs and throttled back and on and on he flew. From New York to Long Beach he said was his destination, But someh......

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Categories: long beach, confusion, flying,
Form: Rhyme
New Beginnings
...The white froth roared up the incline of the sea As the tide came in, the thirsty sand lapping it up. The mile long beach was deserted Except for the hotel guests and Mexican fisherman. All the......

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Categories: long beach, beach, change, holiday, moving
Form: Free verse
Buccaneer-Queen
...“Buccaneer Queen” out of San Pedro is another square-rigged ship. moored at Ports O’Call, California, is ninety feet long, eighteen feet at the base and carries a crew of five. Available for public c......

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Categories: long beach, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Hockey Time
...You know that summertime is gone when a chill is in the air when snow is in the forecast and hockey sticks appear when kids with toques and earmuffs show up on every street stick-ha......

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Categories: long beach, sports,
Form: Blank verse

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