Short Pittsburgh Poems

Pittsburgh Steelers had
Mean Joe Greene and Jack Lambert
in the Seventies...

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Shiloh
a long time ago
biblical and
the battle of
Shiloh
not so long ago
just goes to show
what men can do
when they 
have a mind to....

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Ground Hog Day 2021
Long Range Forecast
Haiku: by Tom
February 2 2021

Today's forecast comes
from Gobblers knob near Pittsburgh.
Phil saw his shadow.
...

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Man of hate attacks 

The Lord's holiest temple 

Faithful's soul depart!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
      29 October 2018



* Dedicated to the eleven victims of Pittsburg synagogue shooting .
God bless their souls!...

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Melissa
Outgoing, Passionate, Insane, Friend
Adoptive daughter of Carol and James
Lover of Pittsburgh, poetry, and music
Who feels pain, depression, and occasional joy
Who fears stars, death, and heights
Who would like to see Italy, Greece, and success
Resident of Warrington, Pennsylvania
Ross...

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This was final game of the year for the Pittsburgh Panthers, our team
Was to be a fight between bitter rivals, though one would fall
Our rival, The Mountaineers, had their best season, going to a dream
Both fought for glory, with determination at the Backyard Brawl,
Pittsburgh, the underdog, crushed dreams, at that Backyard Maul....

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Both Zane and I
            stood, rigid with terror,
        in a desolate area
                of the old golf course.

            My dad, 
                Who was emitting a
        siren song for the
            same rabid beasts that
                            killed my rabbit,
                reveled in the moment’s hilarity....

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In the countryside,
She dwelt with her little friend,
Bonded and stitched through.

This old lady from Pittsburgh,
Had her favourite chair infested with bugs,
She was sore displeased, 
But her worry eased,
When she found something under the rug.

a parcel that changed the tide of events – a harbinger of a new dawn.



February 10, 2022....

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Mean Joe Greene number seventy-five
kept the Pittsburgh Steelers alive

was a solid wall on that frontline
and sacking the quarterback was fine

the Steel Curtain was solid back then
in the seventies they’d always win

that was the decade of the Steelers
take your rookie card to a dealer

and maybe it is worth some green
never forgetting mean Joe Greene...

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Scorn from the Left
Hate on the Right
   Anti-Semitism
   Dark as Night

The shots rang out
The worshipers fell
   Hate's prayer answered
   By a Devil from hell

Pittsburgh was tragic
But its lone death knell
   Doesn't compare
   To life in Israel

Where 24/7
It's bombs away
   Innocent civilians
   Terrorism's prey

Hate on the Left
Scorn from the Right
   Anti-Semitism
   Humanity's Blight...

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This is a growing Pennsylvania community.
Just south of Pittsburgh, it’s in Allegheny County.
This town has been incorporated since 1950.
This is a place with a rather long and proud history.
Baldwin stretches north along Becks Run.
It is just south of South Side Flats and Arlington.
The population per square mile is rather dense.
Baldwin has just over twenty-thousand residents.
With a bright future, Baldwin is a town that grows.
This is a very proud place, and it shows....

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