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Staten Poems - Poems about Staten

Premium Member Tupinamba tribe and other Amazon tales
...Hans Staten explorer in 1557 was at large!! And into the Amazon he did Barge..He was sion taken as a prize..To be cooked and eaten Later..No lies.) It took all his ingenuity, and our God the only ......

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Categories: staten, education,
Form: Rhyme
Two Groundhogs
...Two groundhogs, the focus of news, Saw no shadows, according to crews Who were filming to learn What they’d hoped to discern About how long we’d pay winter’s dues. Lack of shadows means we sho......

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Categories: staten, today,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Deliver Me, Jeannie
...The dirty dishes at the sink are piled up high, near at the brink. A reckoning is looming large: a Staten Island garbage barge of smells, I think. I’ve carried out the garbage pail; I’ve twitc......

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Categories: staten, humor, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Indiscriminate Slayings of the Innocents
...The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP. It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, Have recorded everything, which occurred, from......

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Categories: staten, abuse, angel, baby, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Why Does Bds Equals Money For Iran Part One
...Why does BDS (Boycott Sanction and Divest in Israel) have to do with the radical Islamic nation Iran and its terrorists group of Hamas? From the Ivy League East Coast university of Yale to even Virgi......

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Categories: staten, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Little Red Panda In a Yellow Starred Bandana
...*I believe I've awoken the little red panda donning five yellow stars on a crimson bandana spreading hectares of jaded Jinping propaganda* *She lives in a land of dragons and Maoist oppression ......

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Categories: staten, america, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mom
...Feathered Brazilian brown hair with eyes that match. Red lips,Skinny brows with mascara thick on each lash. Skin tone honey roasted cashew. Body scarred from self harm and all she had been through......

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Categories: staten, anger, care, dark, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Mandela
...Dear Papa, Sad, my siblings and I, Never got to meet with you; You left us too soon, Out in this cold, dark and unjust climate; Out in the deep ghettos and jungles; In the hands of conmen and w......

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Categories: staten, africa, hope, poetry,
Form: Ode
Baseball Experience
...Last Sunday I went to see a minor league game took the ferry to Staten Island with two friends Nearly everyoen is reeling from the two mass murders in our land But we will r......

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Categories: staten, baseball, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Women On March To Victory
...Way, back me.. Git way back man From now on there’s not gonna be no kissin, huggin or lovin, ya dig it; Because we’re not juz your made up maids for U and ya filthy male friends; Come on git with......

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Categories: staten, analogy, appreciation, discrimination, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Shadowless
...Neither Punxsutawney Phil today Nor Staten Island Chuck Saw their shadows when emerging, Which to many is good luck. It predicts a shorter winter And an entryway to spring, Though there's ske......

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Categories: staten, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Flowers In My Window Box
...the flowers in my window box died and I sent their remains in the box to a landfill on Staten Island I was thinking about Burying them at sea Or cremating them but I thought that they......

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Categories: staten, birth, creation, death, death
Form: Free verse
Duped Sons of the Gun
... Rile up the rifling rowdies at the Red River rawhide rally A new Mustang Sally came rip-roaring muscling in from the lower Staten Island end of Stalingrad Treachery forged American mad......

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Categories: staten, allegory, business, political, truth,
Form: Alliteration
They Were Dying, Part 3 of 7
...(By the time of the shooting of "The Misfits", the Miller-Monroe marriage was in deep trouble. The Pansy is Montgomery Clift, The Tusker is John Huston.) After the Fall It started as a ment......

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Categories: staten, film,
Form: Free verse
My Ex Friend's Ex
...What a fool he is for hurting you All this pain and heartache he put you through All your love that he once had He took everything good and turned it bad How can he do this to you It kills me......

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Categories: staten, betrayal, hurt, i love
Form: Light Verse

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