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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.


Premium Member Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia is the home of the Eagles. Super Bowl winners!
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Categories: philadelphia, football, sports,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Cherry Blossoms
Philadelphia cherry blossoms are blooming along the Schuylkill
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Categories: philadelphia, spring, travel,
Form: Haiku
Tears
The shortest road 
  to emotion,
  —is tears

(Philadelphia Pennsylvania: March, 1977)...

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Categories: philadelphia, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Forever Now
Every second, an infinity 
happens
... in relativity!

(West Philadelphia: January, 1973)?...

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Categories: philadelphia, time,
Form: Free verse
Flash Glance
Every second
an infinity happens
—in relativity

(West Philadelphia: January Archive, 1973)...

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Categories: philadelphia, time,
Form: Free verse



Hard Knock Streets
The hard knock streets of Philadelphia,
Don’t keep police in your company,
It’s a death warrant....

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Categories: philadelphia, education, people, places, political, urban
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pride of Philadelphia
     'Brotherly love' reigns

     Miss Liberty Bell proclaims

        ~  Democracy’s cracked
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Categories: philadelphia, city, farewell, freedom, friendship love,
Form: Senryu
Blues Poem 18
Good
ain’t good enough
When bad
— is better

(The Uptown Theater 1967: Philadelphia Pennsylvania)
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Categories: philadelphia, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Heraldry
“If thou wouldst  
be my critic
Thou must
— wear my soul”

(Woodland Avenue Philadelphia: May, 1973)
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Categories: philadelphia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Light In a Bend
The words dropped from my hand to
  the pen unbroken,
   —as light in a bend

(West Philadelphia, February, 1973)...

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Categories: philadelphia, writing,
Form: Free verse
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)...

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Categories: philadelphia, death, life,
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....

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: philadelphia, education, humor,
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.
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Categories: philadelphia, river,
Form: Tanka
Philadelphia
Scaling city canyons 
Control market us mountains 
system in starvation 
She concrete and green gutters 
Blocked ... could neither memory prey...

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Categories: philadelphia, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Seven Spirits a Candlestick
Seven stars within Eternal's palms Philadelphia freedom 
Thirteen psalms and a will to be merry ?
                 
                        ...."In Progress." *:*(*...

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Categories: philadelphia, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?
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/...

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Categories: philadelphia, art, places
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...

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Categories: philadelphia, history,
Form: Free verse
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
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Categories: philadelphia, history, science, war
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!...

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Categories: philadelphia, devotion,
Form: Free verse
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)...

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Categories: philadelphia, child,
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)...

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Categories: philadelphia, freedom, words,
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
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Categories: philadelphia, silly,
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
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Categories: philadelphia, 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....

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Categories: philadelphia, baseball, rain, world,
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
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Categories: philadelphia, addiction,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things