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Poughkeepsie Poems - Poems about Poughkeepsie

Premium Member Purple
...My jeans I’d wear, twirling in the air the cousins, loved those kids; I’d see them hardly ever, flying, laughing, rising. Mother couldn’t understand the wriggling out of the purple dress; nails ......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Dramatic Rottweiler
...A rottweiler with a dramatic flair is a thespian beyond compare He roams through Poughkeepsie as the resident gypsy always laying his emotions bare......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member 1962 Christmas Surprise
...too-da-loo Christmas two kids in tow Buffalo grandpa won’t be there left the gifts in Poughkeepsie where faerie lights will not glow 12/1/2021......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, christmas, death,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Happy Ever After
...A silly old man in Poughkeepsie In love with a beautiful gypsy She took him far away On a warm sunny day When he was a little bit tipsy. written October 4, 2021......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Poughkeepsie To Highland
...over the Hudson River, its heights my nemesis. I longed to drive and stay alive. Highland on the other side. Mid-Hudson thrill ride for a permitted driver. my heart would pound just looking at ......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, fear,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Death of a Thirsty Man
...I once met a thirsty man from Poughkeepsie--uh, He drank four quarts a day of Diet Pepsi--uh, It was certainly no dry joke The over-saturated bloke Died from an extremely rare case of dys......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Happy Wanderer
...I once met a man from Poughkeepsie Who appeared to be rather tipsy Wandering about; Drinking his dark stout, I'm fairly certain he's a gypsy. June 2, 2021......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, drink, freedom, humorous, lonely,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Wrinkles In Time
...Like bookends, Grandma and Grandpa — those smiles — only one wears the apron and the music, classical and gypsy I was glowing in their eyes, growing only for one who kept her pride of me, when......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Hudson Valley Childhood
..."How sweet to the heart are the scenes of my childhood" Samuel Woodworth, 1785-1842 MY HUDSON VALLEY CHILDHOOD Mother dropped us — we’ve no fear o......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, childhood,
Form: Terza Rima
You Just Never Know
...One early winter morning I was walking down the street, When a young woman hurriedly strolled past me. With My head down reminiscing , I glanced up to the same woman That had just passed; is now c......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, deep,
Form: Free verse
Poughkeepsie
...Poughkeepsie - Limerick 23/04/2018 There was a hot girl from Poughkeepsie When she was drunk she thought she was tipsy And she danced up a storm Though it was humid and warm And the peop......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, funny,
Form: Limerick
Gypsy
...There once was a young man from Poughkeepsie Who wanted to live life as a gypsy In far land Met rogue band He soon learned such life was very risky.......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, humor,
Form: Limerick
Poughkeepsie
...There once was a man from Poughkeepsie who wanted his fortune told by a gypsy. He sat down in chair, but got up to stare for old gypsy seemed a little bit tipsy.......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ibm Town
...IBM Town Dad whisked us away, Mom heavy with babe, Away from relative hands, Two year old's off to IBM lands. It was the machine of opportunity. A place with technical commotion. My Dad lo......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Captain Job Terry
...Don’t you know Job Terry? I thought everybody knew Job Terry My name is Captain Job Terry, my people from Kerry But I a Poughkeepsie Celt. I make a dashing impression, Held down the whaling ......

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Categories: poughkeepsie, adventure, allusion, celebrity, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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