Short Philadelphia Poems

Short Philadelphia Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Philadelphia by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Philadelphia by length and keyword.


To Live and Die

To live as an artist,
   but die as a man

Dust forever chasing
  —what heaven began

(Center City Philadelphia: January, 2015)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Reading Difficulty?

A mom in the intelligentsia
went to a school in Philadelphia;
after taking an exam,
she's now a member of DAM:
Mothers Against Dyslexia.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Schuylkill River

The Schuylkill River flows through Philadelphia to the Delaware. It gives everything it's got to send to the Atlantic.
Form: Tanka

Philadelphia

Scaling city canyons 
Control market us mountains 
system in starvation 
She concrete and green gutters 
Blocked ... could neither memory prey

Seven Spirits a Candlestick

Seven stars within Eternal's palms Philadelphia freedom 
Thirteen psalms and a will to be merry ?
                 
                        ...."In Progress." *:*(*
Form:


Premium Member The True Museum of the Mosaic

Dream
garden
perpestives-
became his new
art


Tiffany's mosaic in what was the Curtis Bldg Philadelphia

http://www.pafa.org/Museum/The-Collection/The-Dream-Garden/304/
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Seeing Electric Lights

May twelfth of 1883
smitten newlyweds traveled to Philadelphia
she was enamored and amazed by the electric lights
he was enamored and amazed by his new wife’s beauty and grace

Premium Member Invisible Lie

The truth or secret Cloaking device, the Eldridge Invisible lie? The Philadelphia Experiment " Fact or Fiction " http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/war-4.php
Form: Senryu

Why Philadelphia Is Better Than New York

If you insist on competition in this world
I must tell you
Philadelphia sweeps the streets proudly
Philly is a historical heartland
Philly brings the love
Philly will always rise above!

Reckoning Storm

With eyes that see and ears that hear,
but hearts that look away

Each child unkept—all life bereft,
to rue these mournful days

(Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia: March, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Forever To Be

Like an arrow shot free of its bow,
  thoughts become sighted and free

Whose words when laid down on the page
  —their meaning forever to be

(University City Philadelphia: May, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Eating Poinsettias

There once was a young fellow from Philadelphia Who would sometimes go into fits of hysteria When a bombshell he viewed He became totally unglued Started drooling and eating poinsettias
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Eating Pointsettias

There once was a young fellow from Philadelphia Who would sometimes go into fits of hysteria When a bombshell he viewed He becomes totally unglued Starts drooling and eating poinsettias
fun
Form: Limerick

St-Rain-Ge

strain deluge World Series two-thousand eight strange
written May 18, 2016 5 lines, 6 words, 10 syllables, the only time a World Series game was delayed and Philadelphia benefited.
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Eating Poinsettias


There once was a young fellow from Philadelphia Who would sometimes go into fits of hysteria When a bombshell he viewed He became totally unglued Started drooling and eating poinsettias
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Clerihew Leutze

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was so patriotic
&his paintings are so historic*
Philadelphia raided but German born
twixt one& the other he was ever torn


*https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11417
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Eating Poinsettias



There once was a fellow from Philadelphia Who would sometimes go into fits of hysteria When a bombshell he viewed He became totally unglued Started drooling and eating poinsettias
Form: Limerick

To Save Today

To steal injustice
from the eyes of a child

And place it beyond their sight

Is to save today,
when tomorrow is gone

The future—blinded by fright

(Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia: November, 2016)

Premium Member A Naturalist Legacy

Left
for all
to enjoy-
John Bartram's pride and
joy

Bartram Garden,Lindberg boulevard,Philadelphia

started c 1728 provided many seeds/plants for
English 18th century landscapes

www.bartramsgarden.org
Form: Lanterne

To Save Today

To steal injustice,
  from the eyes of a child

And place it beyond their sight

Is to save today,
  when tomorrow is gone

The future—blinded by fright

(Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia: November, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

A Mutilated Oneness

Visionary’s promise,
   what’s never seen

Believers die invested,
   in lives that wait

Junctions of immunity,
   and sweeter air

A mutilated oneness,
—we call the truth

(West Philadelphia: January, 1973)

Vitam Et Mortem

We are what we do;
we are what we say

As day becomes night,
and night becomes day

We are twice begotten; 
we are twice betrayed

Forgiveness in hiding
—redemption misplayed 

(West Philadelphia: February, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Hidden Nightmare

Mountains are never as grave as the Sea,
  great heights with all dangers exposed

But depths that lay sullen, undiscovered, and dark
 —hide a nightmare to sailors like me

(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)

Premium Member Eating Pointsettias

There once was a young fellow from Philadelphia Who would sometimes go into fits of hysteria When a bombshell he viewed He became totally unglued Started drooling and eating poinsettias © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

The Rudest Awakening

The dead are tired,
the living go on

Breathless and timeless,
all energy gone

The dead left to wander,
betwixt and between

Finality’s heartbreak
—the end of the dream

(Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House: May, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

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