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Memphis Poems - Poems about Memphis

Memphis Poems - Examples of all types of poems about memphis to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for memphis.
Premium Member The Home We Made
...Pike Place Market and Space Needle race tracks out at Indy stands Jefferson's Memorial Nashville's Grand Ole Opry Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing) Great Wall nearby Xia......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



evening song
...Sailing away Leaving today on a Memphis honeymoon Im so glad you made me happy we are getting closer now When you give me your heart the great unknown will grab us I feel the ease now on our ......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Traveling Pants
...They are my lucky pants, they come with me wherever They are my lucky pants, we will always be together They are navy blue nylon, not cotton or leather They are all purpose jogging pants for an......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, clothes, places, seasons, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ode to Chuck Barry
...The Father of Rock and Roll was not Elvis. It was Chuck Barry, wild man from Chicago He was the rhythm and blues king His guitar solos and showmanship are legend. Today we still hear some of hi......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The King
...Born on a cold day with the moon shining on him at night, crying as a newborn child he saw the light. In a ghetto he screamed for the first time. He was raised happy as he could be without o......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, absence, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mattson, a Place Unforgotten
...In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil. No sweet crude runs......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, home,
Form: Narrative
Road Trip
...In the final weeks of Summer, let's have some fun Instead of getting baked to a crisp in the sun. I played video games and swam in the pool, But I'm still bored and that's not cool. What should w......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, adventure, best friend, music,
Form: Free verse
5 Persons
...Five persons travel Noonday, in Memphis sand dunes In sandals and robes.......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, arabic, beauty, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Interview With a Snake
...Jim Stokes is at the Memphis Zoo. He’s been assigned to interview a Southern copperhead. A few have scared him s _ _ _ less in the past. Thank God this one’s behind thick glass! Jim: Good, mor......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, animal, fear, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clueless
...I took a chance on you - even though it went against my black heart I didn't realize it'd be rocky like this from the very start I didn't know what I'd be getting into - I truly didn't care I didn......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, 7th grade, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Night With Joe Bonamassa
...Billboard named him the year finest blues musician. Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician, He was designed to be a famous musician. His family owns a guitar store in upstate New York......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
King Creole
...In nineteen thirty five, in the eighth of January His kingship first saw light in Tupelo, Mississippi Under the Capricorn, there he met the sun shining The rising Sagittarius graced the light o......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, appreciation, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Love You Elvis
... Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis, came from poor beginnings born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Vernon and Gladys this boy loved the gospel music in church . . . . at thirteen his family moved to Me......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, music, tribute,
Form: Bio
Premium Member More Jazz Please
...My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was a t......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, food, friendship, fun, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member High Tech Lynching
..."HIGH TECH LYNCHING" April 6, 2023, a dark and sad day in Tennessee history Black men striped of their first amendment right to tell their story The Declaration of Independence, states that "all......Read the rest...
Categories: memphis, anger, betrayal, bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme

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