Playgrounds Poems - Poems about Playgrounds

...Africa who cursed you? Why are you so endowed, but have so little to show for it? While other nations are knocking on heaven's door,, You keep knocking on the doors of IMF and World Bank You say......Read the rest...

...thrust up from desert floor like a snow cone icy mountain dripping winter's lace ... Mt Lemon only fifty miles from this maze I'm threading through cracker box houses snaking sidewalk......Read the rest...

...All the shelves been emptied, there are no books left about; Both hist'ries and the words become nothing but a shout. Those in the old paintings that hang, but barely displayed, ......Read the rest...

... There may have been neighborhoods with green lawns, playgrounds, and ballfields a short walk from houses with enough bedrooms for everyone. Houses that stood apart from one another, so owners ......Read the rest...

...Born into a world with only one hand to hold Delivered by eyes impassive to his existence cold fingers brought no warmth to his welcome While no strength held him high. The yearning in his eyes ......Read the rest...

...The first chirp of the robin near my shut window pleaded The blackbird, song thrush, chiffchaff, and pheasant pleaded as well. The sunflowers, cornflowers, and marigolds that needed Prayed for his......Read the rest...

...I always did fantasize about our diverse earth; Its freezing stones in the fridges of the Arctic and Antarctic landscapes. The idyllic playgrounds on the quiet sands of the Mediterranean Sea banks,......Read the rest...

...I smell like pencils in September. After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived. You stared me in the eyes......Read the rest...

...Empty nest, I'll miss all the messing I'm glad I know this time is a blessing It's repetitive shouting "please get dressed" I'll miss all the messing, empty nest Joyful sounds, drift through th......Read the rest...

...Our sizzling temperatures like the month of August on our skyline above the clouds Swimming with the pigs dolphins, sharks and stingrays in our crystal seas Sunday strolls on our gorgeous ......Read the rest...

...for so long, this country sold its birth rights to the things that lived in the past history says - Liberia offered us bullets in 1989 & came back in 2022 to steal the glory off our skins hi......Read the rest...

...Prolonged sounds of shrieking sirens warn Where death of normalcy people mourn As he hugs wife and child close to his heart, Ambivalent of woeful day’s agonizing start: Unjust war burning down sa......Read the rest...

...Love is the most perfect disease That can ever infect a human. It was not made to kill, or invented In a laboratory in Wuhan. Love therefore's an infectious disease, That can also be a global ......Read the rest...

...In the bleakest corners of Hell-Town midst playgrounds littered with glass Disfigured weeds stretch to the sky and no one's seen a blade of grass Where junkies openly ply their trad......Read the rest...

...The playgrounds are empty mid-July Sun makes the equipment scorching hot Enough to make naked legs literally fry No children today with a piercing cry, Moms say when dusk comes they'll tr......Read the rest...