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Salt Lake City Poems - Poems about Salt Lake City

Premium Member BABY LAUNCHING PAD BUS
...Cross Country Greyhound Bus Very young 17 Year Old’s Couple as such The young woman started throughout having labor pains The Father too be felt worried and wanted to hurry It was a small town th......

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Categories: salt lake city, anxiety, baby, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Friend Arthur
... We were bused from Sacramento to Reno. We rode a train from Reno to Salt Lake City. We then bused from SLC to Kansas City. Somewhere along the I-80 route, we crossed the Great Divide. At t......

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Categories: salt lake city, family, friend,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ryan Trip takes a Trip on a Lawn Mower
...in the summer of 1997 Twelve year old Ryan Tripp made a 3, 366 mile journey across the USA raising ten thousand and four hundred dollars for a sick baby living in his home town. He took this trip......

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Categories: salt lake city, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter On a Train
...I once met a gentleman on an Amtrak train whose name was Sitruc Nosttam.*He was some 20 years my senior which was a real treat to me because I have great respect for and love talking with people much......

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Categories: salt lake city, care, people, write,
Form: Verse
Salt of Life
...Salt of Life Every day I eat a little Himalayan Pink Salt In my food That and real salt From Salt Lake City Will enable me To live to be A ripe old man So my advice to you all Add ......

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Categories: salt lake city, food, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Desert Rose
...I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion; And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion. I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City; And the scenery alon......

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Categories: salt lake city, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member New Year Sale
...Special offer for forbidden fruit two for the price of one Discounted pleasure until ultimate stock clearance lasts Adam’s apples included Unisex versions available Sustainable and ......

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Categories: salt lake city, new year,
Form: Free verse
Come Come Ye Say Ain'Ts
...A prostitute in Salt Lake City Stood accused of flaunting her kitty She said, "That ain't fair! Your cop over there First flashed me with his itty-bitty!"......

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Categories: salt lake city, lust,
Form: Limerick
Trapped Back of the Bus
...April 6th Back of the Bus Many years ago When I was a foolish young man I took a greyhound bus trip Just to see the country I was trapped In the back of the bus Where the young And rest......

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Categories: salt lake city, america, angst, car,
Form: Quatrain
The Snow Angel
...A Mormon in Salt Lake City Was white as the snow and pretty Bit it was her luck To meet a young buck More skilled in the nitty-gritty So God gave her a second chance But Satan still ruled her......

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Categories: salt lake city, angel, culture, discrimination, god,
Form: Limerick
Hitchiking Tales
...April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitch hiking Tales When I was young and foolish Broke and stubborn I hitchhiked across the USA Started in Salt Lake City Where my greyhound bus pass ......

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Categories: salt lake city, travel,
Form: Free verse
Hitch Hiking Tales Part One
...April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitchhiking Tales part one published in Tiferet Journal 2018 Poem-a-Thon When I was young and foolish Broke and stubborn I hitchhiked across the USA ......

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Categories: salt lake city, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My City, Pleasant Grove
...Nearby a desert, trees and peace both flourish in my city, Pleasant Grove. Written Oct. 3, 2016 For the Where I Live One Liner Contest of Silent One. *Pleasant Grove is a small city of Utah, U......

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Categories: salt lake city, city,
Form: Monoku
Biking Through Salt Lake City
...Biking through Salt Lake City Homes of well knit, croquet stature With Oxford fountains flowing Forcibly pin my eye I pedal a block to see streets missing teeth Bank signs, chipped paint and ama......

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Categories: salt lake city, image, imagery,
Form: Imagism
The Ocotillo Invasion
...Utah cringes as hacked Ocotillo turn carnivorous, spitting psychoactive pollen into the atmosphere, dusting entire subdivisions. The victims wander, searching eagerly for where sunlight is stro......

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Categories: salt lake city, crazy, dream, environment, future,
Form: Free verse

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