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Rhode Island Poems - Poems about Rhode Island


Question Of The Ages
Why did the chicken cross Abbey Road? Because it was there, but which came first? Obviously, not the egg, as it has no legs. The first chicken to cross the road, feeling peckish, not one to throw in the towel, when told, 'Walk, don't run a fowl,' and, faster than a speeding pullet, or so it is said, was one giant leap for poultry, one small step for...

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Categories: rhode island, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Mansions of Rhode Island
Tour the mansions of Rhode Island (And it doesn’t matter which) And discover just how different Life can be if you are rich. Want to throw a little party? Ask 400 of your friends While your servants prep and coddle For the fun that never ends. Have some outfits made in Paris; Order in the best champagne. Bathe in water from the ocean. (Watch the salt...

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Categories: rhode island, life,
Form: Rhyme



Rhode Island Red Rooster
I say...I say that college boy up yonder with them college books over there ain't smarter than a ten watt lightbulb said the Rhode Island Red Rooster...

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Categories: rhode island, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cold Rhode Island Morning
Beyond the gates, Where the old bakery stood, Was a memory of cold hands and The saving glittering gems of the jelly doughnut. Then late for practice and asthmatic from suicides. My mother's voice calling in the wind. When is it all reconstructed the right way? Under what gray moon do things flutter with meaning As deep as our bones?...

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Categories: rhode island, memory,
Form: Free verse
Rhode Island
RHODE ISLAND small, needs little poetry...

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Categories: rhode island, places
Form: Light Verse



Rhode Island
the biding time of...... the bride of,and man flower the power of,people...

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Categories: rhode island, art,
Form: Haiku

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