Oakland Poems - Poems about Oakland

A Part of the Past Frozen in Time You can drive your whole life not look upon the face of harbingers in spring wet earth Remembering the ephemeral warm Mediterranean summers clean petrichor fresh rain bucolic life setting Yielding a nostalgic propinquity city's efflorescence dress brick buildings The epiphany...Read the rest...

Dearest Santa, lovely to see. You wear a white, satiny suit. How lovely you are! With golden gloves and golden boots. Your face full of merriment. Quite the sporty guy you are,. Driving an Oakland A's sports car! You are huggable, too. Soft and...Read the rest...

~~~~Let's Go Oakland!~~~ Beat the Tampa Bay Rays! 50,000 fans heading your way to watch you play, In this very exciting Wild Card Game. There will be no...Read the rest...

The Isley Brothers, The Chi-Lites, Four Tops The Emotions (Flowers) Roberta Flack (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face) Jane Fonda Elvis Stars... Lulu (To Sir With Love) Paul Le Mat (American Grafitti) Suzanne Sommers Mackenzie Phillips, Aretha Franklin Manuel Padilla Jr. as Jai...Read the rest...

Oakland Cemetery Atlanta (7-30-2016) I gazed on a sunny day Across a shady lawn Beneath its simple beauty Lives forgotten, families gone. To the left are moments big and small, Mighty reminders of ancestral love, Come to...Read the rest...

*A assignment was due in class. * Every time a gun shoots A tree looses its roots Every time there is bloodshed Along with it millions of tears are shed Every time a heart is stabbed Someone else’s life gets barren As...Read the rest...

Innocence was lost years ago Not mine, but everyone around me Some things changed White turned to black Friends turned to enemies Wrong turned to right And happiness turned to depression Escape was nowhere in sight But i needed more than anything to...Read the rest...

ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC SUCCESS Man feels guilty, thus Man feels bad : conscience halts “pleasures” to be had. Psychs seek cure - Man must not feel bad, with drugs remove what make him sad. Good, lucky Man is free from guilt...Read the rest...