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Motor City
Motor City Poems - Poems about Motor City
uptight
...Your Choice T Poetry Contest: Sponsored by Brian Strand (April/May 2025) all time classic soul music from a poor man’s son turn that volume up for the motor city sound now everything is alrigh......
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Martin Challender
Categories:
motor city,
10th grade, america, music,
Form:
Tanka
3cmm basilar tip aneurysm
...Here i was thinking this was just my second cardiovascular attacks my second stroke an yet here i was rushed through the double doors my husband in a state as we waited wondering what caused this was......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
motor city,
allah,
Form:
Naat
Counter-Hero Spawn
...Albert F Simmons's birthplace was Detroit Motor City. Nature gilded him with vitality and wisely showed pity. As the best undercover agent, his ethics were absurd. Albert was smart, ye......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
motor city,
analogy, anxiety, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
A Festive 24 Hours
...As the day turned Fighting Irish were certainly concerned Waiting for a meeting With an Aloha greeting Aggies promoting the lone star Trying to clear the collegiate hardwood ......
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Marc O'Brien
Categories:
motor city,
america, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
City Awakened
...Spruced, cleaned up, did up It's been ages or so of corruption erupt As yet, making heads or tails of disrupt What could have been, a city of brotherly love From, we will never blink free of The......
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Daniel Miltz
Categories:
motor city,
city,
Form:
Free verse
What Is Detroit
...It's the Motor City Motor Capital of the World Fordtown Motown Hockeytown It's lying in shards Like olden Rome Love among the ruins With an abrasive outside layer Of exhaust looks and ......
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Daniel Miltz
Categories:
motor city,
city,
Form:
Free verse
Detroit Assembly Defined
... Welcome to the Motown Motor City, asphalt carpet ghetto grind Automated fated urban living, everyday inner-city surviving Hard mean streets handing out no pity, sharpens perceptive ra......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
motor city,
identity, truth, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Parking In Detroit
... Lyrics are sung to the music of David Bowie’s “Panic in Detroit” Just another slow rush hour, breathing exhaust fumes ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
motor city,
anxiety, city, song,
Form:
Lyric
Motor City 2016 Champion
...2016 Motor City Open Champion It has to happened, this day has to come... When a low ranking player defied the odds as they come.. In a place called the Motor City, showcasing a world squash t......
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Keng Chuan Seng
Categories:
motor city,
appreciation, celebration, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is What Happens
...[ edit poem ] Life Is What Happens What a long, strange life it’s been. Childhood and adolescence were close to normal, I never felt quite right, Never fit my image of a normal kid. Dealing w......
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Barry Ponneck
Categories:
motor city,
bereavement, emotions, life, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Young American Days
...To be in a young America ~ visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty the young lad holding tightly to his Mothers leg in all excitement of a new Land to call......
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Shanity Rain
Categories:
motor city,
absence, america, art, books,
Form:
Epic
North Woodward
...Like Moses fleeing Egypt and finding refuge in Midian I was a stranger in a strange land. Having fled Chicago in ‘84 I journeyed east to the unpromised land of Detroit. 8 Mile Road. “I'm a ......
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James Rasmusson
Categories:
motor city,
life, urban
Form:
Free verse
Boris Watch Out For Squirrel
...There once was a gal from motor city who drove a Prius to give her celebrity. Her guy drove a Ford and cursed her “Oh, Lord!” Their divorce was a forgone necessity! Their children, a boy and a......
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Debbie Guzzi
Categories:
motor city,
adventure, animals, funny, imagination
Form:
Limerick
Motown - My Home Town
...My name is Loreen Parke and I’m from Detroit City. I’m quick. My Mom calls me ‘Slick’ My friends say I’m Witty. No wants. No warrants. No priors. No dirty deals. Strictly ca......
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Loreen Parke
Categories:
motor city,
lifehome, home,
Form:
Rhyme
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