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Pittsburg Poems - Poems about Pittsburg

Premium Member The Impotent Poet
...sputtering poetry, the impotent poet tells me, she was “…puttering around Pittsburg.” potent poetry. perhaps, alluring alliteration potentially portends ......

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Categories: pittsburg, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
Stronger With Jws - With Jesus I Pray
...I At this stage My retirement age I speak with JWs Jehovah's Witnesses I shut my door quickly before Now, I'm emptier - stronger - I converse with JWs longer II Fine people, careful about......

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Categories: pittsburg, america, bible, faith, jesus,
Form: Didactic



Bow Down
...A sun flower hangs full ......

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Categories: pittsburg, age,
Form: Shape
The River
...Inside the water where they float or sway in their rusting roots are horse tackle, buggies, unhinged parts of eighteen wheelers, a girl on a tricycle, her bones still cycling in the drifting m......

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Categories: pittsburg, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pittsburg Usa 27 October 2018
...Take your gun to a place of worship And take the lives of 11 people Whose crime that day Was to worship God at a synagogue Hold the police off until you are trapped Then give yourself up Wh......

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Categories: pittsburg, violence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pittsburgh Faithful
...Man of hate attacks The Lord's holiest temple Faithful's soul depart! © Demetrios Trifiatis 29 October 2018 * Dedicated to the eleven victims of Pittsburg synagogue......

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Categories: pittsburg, evil, faith, god,
Form: Senryu
God Help Us When Afraid
...God Help Us When Afraid God help us, when we became afraid; Through problems and fears will wade; Experience sorrow, Today and tomorrow, Caused by sinners who have strayed. Jim Horn Mor......

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Categories: pittsburg, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Great Suburban Cowboy
...I live in suburban Pittsburg, but my heart yearns for western climes, undoubtedly from watching films that dressed up and romanticized the sweep of the tall-grass prairie, desert cactus and red-......

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Categories: pittsburg, appreciation, confidence, engagement, how
Form: Cowboy Poetry
America, 1933
...They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run. It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the street ki......

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Categories: pittsburg, character, culture, history, life,
Form: Narrative
A Mind Robber
...A Mind Robber Out of my mind had made a spectacle Because about everything I was skeptical And when upside down had been landing Commanding lead were not understanding. What was wrong with......

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Categories: pittsburg, humorous,
Form: Couplet
1963
...Those long bus rides between Urbana, Illinois and Wheaton, Maryland were all in the interspace, hours of smooth nothingness punctuated by jangly nothingness at change points like Cincinnati and......

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Categories: pittsburg, animal, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Kubla Khan
...KUBLA KHAN “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ......

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Categories: pittsburg, funny,
Form: Couplet
Come 2016
...come 2016 or 2015 or 2017 whenever china’s economy exceeds that of the united states (the year disputed circa. 2016) and there is no longer any dispute over who will be calling the shots in the......

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Categories: pittsburg, lifecity,
Form: Free verse
Ii. Father Jones
...The passage was dark and damp over a month locked inside a cell under the sea somewhere but when Father Jones planted his feet back on solid ground and saw the Statue of Liberty rising like a gree......

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Categories: pittsburg, family, father, hope, life,
Form: Narrative
I Sold
...I sold my stolen joy division box set to go to a local show with a girl how's name was in a popular song on the radio she had long curly blond hair like the one from pink flamingo we ran fo......

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Categories: pittsburg, life, me,
Form: Bio

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