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.
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia
is the home of the Eagles.
Super Bowl winners!
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Categories:
philadelphia, football, sports,
Form:
Senryu
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
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
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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Categories:
philadelphia, education, humor,
Form:
Limerick
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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