San Diego Poems - Poems about San Diego

For a fun vacation, I suggest San Diego might be for you A city with lots of sunshine and warm temperatures and plenty to do Its proximity to the border gives you lots of Mexican food choices to try Endless beaches with boardwalks for strolling nearby The zoo provides you with a spectacular array of animals far and wide Balboa...

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Autumn is a time in the spirit of a man When he walks down the beach And get chilled from the sand. On misty mornings can't but walk from my home When I think of summer days ...

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FIX THE STREETS Fix the streets. One day the people will rebel and stop paying taxes. Fix the streets. No one will want to live here in San Diego. Fix the streets. One day the people will revolt. Fix the streets. This is not the time to put up with crooked politicians. Fix the streets. Wealthy people won't want to live here. Fix the streets. Janet Marie Bingham...

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She was next to me, She was real. How could this be? She so long the substance of my most hopeful daydreams. Physically so far away, but residing in my heart everyday. Could she be mine for more than this weekend? Only if fate smiled upon us, around the bend. Would her heart open again,...

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Here begins a series of Burns stanzas commemorating the Catholic Missions found in Old California along "El Camino Real", The King's Highway. The rhyme scheme is aaabab and the meter is trochee. Lines "a" are tetrameter lines and lines "b" are dimeter lines. California's oldest mission. Shrine provides appreciation, viewing proselytization. Converts, business, making tribes of Christian passion. Seeds brought, priests bless....

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San Diego Written: by Tom Wright 5/20/2016 My mind is a pool brimming with thoughts, Some exist in undisturbed corners as dust bunnies In places where eyes can’t behold; Seeing and hearing things are thought activators, Often fetching me to long ago times, To a place or person long since forgotten, until now; The memory of touch, and passing of time, Often reveal...

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It is the third largest city in California. It lies just north of the border from Tijuana. This is a nice big town where many a tourist stays. The municipality is home to the Chargers and Padres. The weather is warm and sunny, and hardly every raining. It is where the U.S. Marines take their boot camp training. This place has...

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Apricot nectar, I licked from her lips, suckled the dew like honey from melon ripe breast and in time did savor the heady heavenly flavor of passion's fruit in all the rest and night birds beyond the window ...sang a new song....

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Invasion of tears on a lonely street I crash spheres of sadness that burst with a sigh There's no one to tear me apart I can meet? ..a Lexus is lost and the driver is shy... The freezing orchestra plays in my head Police sirens as one play with my memory A voice seems to utter " They will give us...

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Sailors go to the San Diego zoo, looking for pretty girls who go there too. Sugared monkeys a good time, always tossing plenty grime, by reaching behind and throwing at you! * For Zany Zoo contest...

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(To Greg) I have a friend who’s been in my life, for such a very long time. As I remember, 1980 was the year. The ladder of success, I wanted to climb. I was almost out of college. Through the Travel Agency ads I hunted. And then I answered the ad in the paper. It said, “Flight Dispatcher Wanted” With...

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