Pennsylvania Poems - Poems about Pennsylvania

At midnight, deep beneath D.C.'s pride, A tunnel breathed secrets the daylight hides. Pennsylvania Avenue—so clean, so grand— But under its bones lies a cursed land. Dark suits walk halls soaked in red, A velvet silence where the truth lies dead. The walls pulse with symbols from ages old, Carved by hands both cruel and cold. Fridges hum like funeral songs, Storing innocence stolen...

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Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee... honored at freedom fête of course in my dreams where Tony the Tiger roars Matthew Scott Harris ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat showcasing adroitness with ability to turn a phrase evident if we could arrange a tête-à-tête where immortality doth wait. Pacifist bard of Perkiomen Valley regaled at Alpine Fellowship conclave regarding erosion of Democratic rights grave alarming usurpation of power...

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~Pennsylvania Panic~ He was shot, and could have been dead. I saw the red blood running down his head. I only could think of his tall and handsome son of eighteen. Whose...

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We are the pigs, mighty mighty pigs, not a stunt. The Iron pigs, we play baseball daily, grunt grunt. We play in Coca Cola Park, long after dark. We are from Allentown, where you can hear our bark....

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. One beautiful day ...

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Where deception is granted a daily reception Even before the press conference's cursed inception ...

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Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S (just in time for end of summer reading... recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence) intended food for thought indulgence. A boys' life aborted miscarried golden opportunity for adolescent romance to be courted. Amidst a raft of fellow (Brandywine Valley Y.M.C.A) resident campers seething with hormonal secretion to canoodle who, didst excitedly quiver donning a "NON FAKE" lifejacket coursing down swiftly moving Youghiogheny river (evidenced...

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Groundhog Day What is it they say? If he sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter Should we let something like this become a hinder After all, this started as a Pennsylvania Dutch superstition Who thought of this proposition Was this used for farmers to seed their fields and grow crops If it was I have...

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The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear power plant siren wailed yesterday at 1400 hours December the fourth and probably broadcast further east, west, south and north. That shrill ear-piercing emitted sound quite painful despite measurable diminution regarding my audiological ability, which loss of hearing linkedin to senescence. Nevertheless, yours truly startled in his cockpit seat (actually a rickety metal stool) regarding: semi-Annual Test: which penetrated and filled the volume of ether for two...

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Around 2004, my family and I started going on vacations to Erie twice a summer. Accompanying us on these excursions were the Jenkinses-- family friends who were more like actual family. In addition to our typical week at the beach, they joined us for a sneak peek weekend earlier in the summer where we...

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A woman was raped on the train But no passenger would complain! They enjoyed the assault And could not be at fault For girls are born to entertain!...

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SNAKES IN RURAL PENNSYLVANIA The snakes in his head were timber rattlers, easily agitated, disinclined to fight, their rattling a warning to all before slipping away silently from conflict or harm Unfortunately for the fortunate son his bride to be was a young copperhead, golden brown and beautiful on the dark forest floor among the stones and wet soil of a Blue Mountain summer,...

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Dusk dawns noticeably earlier each night in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania - yup Which trend will continue some days before winter solstice 2021 in Northern Hemisphere, Tuesday, December 21 10:58 AM. Yes, interestingly enough earliest sunset date(s) along eastern United States will occur December 7 and 8, 2021 at 4:28 pm EST. Similar respective phenomena takes place across globe. Winter solstice constitutes shortest day of the year...

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I want a house that’s built from Pennsylvania fieldstone On a farm that’s far away from all this noise. I want a lane that’s lined with clutches of day lilies. We’ll live on simple gifts and ordinary joys. I want a trail where we’ll go hiking with our children, Where they can learn the trees and follow nature’s way. I want...

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Greetings from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania today March 1st, 2021 I dashed (off the enclosed poem) yay while safely secured within white horse open sleigh after reading following pray lemme know if ye uttered oy vey. Profound insights divulged during our most recent family zoom Approximately seven hundred and fifty four months since exiting womb, yours truly (sole son of late Boyce Brandon - yes she named him after paternal grandmother Sadie,...

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