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 of an old church as it sings the echoes of erstwhile Redolent warm feeling Victorian versed homes Yester years fine brushstrokes Trees towering on the outskirts of the...

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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 oh, entirely lovable. Trying to be the grooviest dude in this wonderful town. You even pop, holly and ivy, onto your Santa Clause...

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~~~~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 hearings as to who won the game, Nor, if Russia colluded to put you to shame! That's what I like about sports,...

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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 (Kid in Tarzan series) Harrison Ford Ron Howard U2 Cher Heat Wave Commodores The Jackson Five The Pointer Sisters, The Righteous Brothers Sidney Portier, Lionel Ritchie Justin Trudeau (8 years...

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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 rest, come to call Though these lives are no more, I am drawn to the open field Where life may roam Unbound...

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*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 violence grows Many more mothers moan The sounds of destruction Overpowers the voice of those Who are innocent Who suffer with no reason Who beg for...

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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 get out of here Everyone around me was changing Yet I didn’t want anything to do with it I didn’t wanna...

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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 : no shunning of what shouldn’t be built. He’ll use base feelings such as hate to revel in his psych-made state. Oh happy Man,...

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