Richmond Poems - Poems about Richmond

...I was somewhere deep in Kansas on a Triumph 69’ When your song came on the jukebox and hit me from behind I was headed for a bad place and cared for nothing much When I heard the song ‘Melissa,......Read More

...driving our kids west . . . our past life vanishing in the rear view mirror I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to Cali......Read More

...It’s been a few months now Since you don’t greet me at the door Sleep on the couch next to me Still find your hairs in the couch Your crate is still in the laundry room Empty It’s quiet now......Read More

...Coach Carter: "Basketball is a privilege." Learning self-respect is a key to being better and achieving more. Sport makes a huge difference for people around the world, especially our younger gene......Read More

...Civil War II Perhaps if civil war comes, it will be broken into scores of guerilla wars. This prolonged agony is a reason General Lee surrendered! The division in America—2024<......Read More

...Buddy was the youngest and bravest of soldiers, he left Richmond Hill and his adolescent dreams; on European battlefields he fought and earned valor in Argonne and dominated the combat with gallan......Read More

...Dear January. I don't deny that there are days of beauty; days of temperate tones and warm blue skies. I don't think I'm confused; so allow me a bit of muse. Perhaps it's me and my shortsight......Read More

...Machiavellian schemes besmirch a murky mangrove calm A propeller breaks the tranquil glass over an underwater farm Neath the broken still, a peaceful giant stirs with alarm and no consolation is f......Read More

...Between Blue Ridge Mountains and Chesapeake Bay Almost eight and a half million people here do sashay, One of the original colonies, back in the settlers’ day, Part of the American Revolution, Vir......Read More

...I’m passing through a bad part of Richmond, a long trip almost over. Night rain drizzles wipers creak monotonously, the blacktop no longer flying but crawling over my eyes. On the edge of the ......Read More

...Rev up your engines O, youth of today The challenge before you Is to find a smooth way To ease out the old and bring in the new Without transforming the world to a dark witch's brew ......Read More

...When I am broke I write a poem I make myself the hero In my poem, nobody can stop me Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip ......Read More

...Running the 95 from Jacksonville to Richmond On a Sunday afternoon in June The thermometer and the road signs read the same Sunny and hot, the miles were winding away When the gas tank and the ho......Read More

...I was somewhere deep in Kansas, on a Triumph 69’ When your song came on the jukebox, and hit me from behind I was headed for a bad place, and cared for nothing much When I heard the song ......Read More

...I flop at truck stops hid by other sleeping truckers. I like the loneliness. Amarillo, Detroit, Tacoma, Richmond, places packed and stacked with the bad and the good. I scoot by paying no heed,......Read More