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Louisville Poems - Poems about Louisville

Premium MemberTravelling Jill

...There's a sweet young lady named Jill
for whom travel is such a big thrill.
She sees many places
and lots of kind faces
in Asheville, Nashville,
Seattle and Seville,
Belleville, Louisville
and...
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Categories: louisville, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Ever Since

...dad could roll a cigarette
with just two fingers
and the tip of his tongue
i saw him do this once
in a wind storm

he would shave just close enough
to keep himself grizzled

he could dive in...
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Categories: louisville, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDr Quinzel

...Harley Quinn,
Harlequin.
Evil twin.
Don't cross her.
You won't again.
She uses a Slugger.
Louisville bat.
The Joker dumped her.
A very Mad act.
Ms. Quin's not chagrin.

She runs a Rhino.
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Categories: louisville, fantasy, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDawne Gee of Wave News 3 In Louisville Kentucky

... Dawne Gee really makes her best effort to inform you and me about what is real and what is the "Present Reality"! Dawne Gee.....Dawne Gee...Dawne Gee........Where would we be without Dawne Gee an...
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Categories: louisville, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Ballad

The Stinging Butterfly

...No one lived more inside the moment,
No one left others more bent to his will,
No one remembered more for the things that he said,
No one more misunderstood while being so loved
—than Muhammad Al...
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Categories: louisville, memorial,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Trip To Louisville

...NB  This is a repost original was deleted.  Unfortunately I was without an internet for two days and I am truly blocked.  I am sorry but I shall probably miss some poem.  I can't help it.

How plea...
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Categories: louisville, 9th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberUp In Smoke

...On a cold December night, a snowstorm
failed to stop a fire in Colorado.
And tinder-dry trees fueled a firestorm
that turned two towns into ash and shadow.

A prairie grass fire in Bould...
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Categories: louisville, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member2021 First Saturday In May

...Derek  

Will you be able to bear it?  

First weekend in May  

And who the Yankees will play, 

Bringing slugging Louisville woods  

Tigers score if they could.  

In the Bronx  

Bo...
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Categories: louisville, america, celebrity, horse, race,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Reason Why Racism Is Truly a Health Issue For the Usa and the World

...We as American Citizens can through observation learn!We can learn why "Racism"is a "Health Issue".Racism is a "Mental Health Issue that cannot be denied,because we see "Racism" in every group of ...
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Categories: louisville, 10th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberKentucky Kentucky the Content of Two Great Leaders Mayor Gregory Fischer and Mayor Jerry E Abramson

...The content of "The Character of "The Two Greatest Mayors of Louisville Kentucky: Gregory Fischer,and Jerry E. Abramson. Here is "The Content of there combined "Character"!  They both realize the ...
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Categories: louisville, 11th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Bird Brain and Pigeon Toe - Re-Edited

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Two of the wackiest guys I know,
	live two doors down, 
		           one flight below

Tall is one, the other is short
One chirps loud all the time ... one quietly coos
Tall wears a ...
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Categories: louisville, funny, humor, imagination, word
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberIntersection of Interbeing

...Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago on July twenty-fifth,
working...
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Categories: louisville, inspirational, memory, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClinging To My Bible and Bear Spray

...One DIRTY BIRD COP and (our) cities burn... again
now the far lefty loons are flapping about wanting to defund 
and even ELIMINATE police forces all together,
while stripping 2nd amendment RIGHTS ...
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Categories: louisville, baptism, best friend, bible,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHorses and Cheetahs

...For most animals of the wild,  life is all about the next meal and raising their young. For a few horses, it's a sport, and life is all about a 2-minute race in the month of May.  However, for the ch...
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Categories: louisville, animal, endurance, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberMy Nolan Ryan Story

...GROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM 
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER 
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN...
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Categories: louisville, baseball, memory,
Form: Free verse

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