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Philadelphia Poems - Poems about Philadelphia

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Premium Member Pride of Philadelphia
'Brotherly love' reigns Miss Liberty Bell proclaims ~ Democracy’s cracked ...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, city, farewell, freedom, friendship
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Lorenzo
Uncooked grains of rice caked our apartment. Dug themselves into my pliable plantar aspect I welcomed you from the bottom of my being, Into my soul, A friend that made me feel whole. You dreamt of delicious dishes dancing In the...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse



Philadelphia, Usa
Philadelphia, When you enter Philadelphia You will think that all the drug lords Of the World live in that USA State. Millions of drug addicts, Streets filling with homeless people Due to drug addictions And...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, emotions, feelings, sad, usa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiding Philadelphia
"Hiding Philadelphia" The ground has cracked open like an egg, the shell scattered all about the yolk of life sucked into the rubble where a child is born and carried out like a prayer an offering to the...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, faith, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Delightful Dreams of You -Chapter 2: Philadelphia Love, Hands Up-
(KAP) Because I’m done with you I’m done with you I’m done with you Because I’m done with you I’m done with you I’m done with you Because I’m done with you I’m done with you I’m done with you (Rap) Hands up in...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, brother, love,
Form: Lyric



Philadelphia Experiment
Perhaps a conspiracy, but the crew only knows, the Happenings aboard the USS Eldridge, kept hushed In a ship that sailed from sea port to time portals Leaves a feeling this test was not ready, but rushed Amid the...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, time,
Form: Acrostic
I Will Leave
in an even more distant land where love is a devil eating chains at a big banquet hope, a hungry wolf admiring him with lust, I will go to a country where souls are called like soldiers in an...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, 6th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
At the Philadelphia Flower Show
At the Philadelphia Flower Show we plotted and planned our future life that was the first time you called me husband and I delighted in calling you wife we made a wish on every bud every elegant and extravagant display the...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, garden, love, poetry, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Philadelphia
What would this city be like If no one dies tonight? If bullets stop flying? If innocent lives weren’t dying? Because these streets are like a war zone And one night you just might not make it home Tell me...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Philadelphia Princess
A beautiful young woman who came from very near, was off and running with a great acting career. She starred in a movie with Clark Gable titled "Mogambo". Later, she was paired with James Stewart in "Rear Window". A...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, history, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Watching the News
Glued to the TV Can't stop surfing news channels Want to know it all Nothing on TV Can hold my attention like MSNBC CNN has me Mesmerized with interviews Larry King is 'King' But it's all fake news My apologies to King He does tell the...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, age, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Peco Philadelphia Electric Company
PECO (Philadelphia Electric Company)... wont get a red cent from me (explained by following words you see) No...not until the       bitter cold temperature,       sans iron maiden       (Polar Vortex) grips  Southeastern Montgomery County       (Perkiomen Valley) Pennsylvania   ...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, adventure, death, fate, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Philadelphia Soul
Another Arena Bowl was this team's goal. The Philadelphia soul. Dealing with reality, a third-in-a-row trophy, was not going to be. Their season is now complete. They went down to defeat. The team from Baltimore did them in. A championship the Soul would not...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, football, sports,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia is the home of the Eagles. Super Bowl winners! ...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, football, sports,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Philadelphia Pith and Philter
PHILADELPHIA PITH AND PHILTER You'll breath her essence as her love's implied upstairs from where she drank her watered wine, and for an hundred dollars she has cried to make you feel the man and feel just fine; her Afro...Read the rest...
Categories: philadelphia, beauty, lust, sensual,
Form: Sonnet

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