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Tollgate Poems - Poems about Tollgate


Premium Member Penniless At the Tollgate
...PENNILESS AT THE TOLLGATE Wish I had a cat, or maybe just a friend. Mother says it's not the end, but it is. Reflections in the mirror, inspections of the interior. She's gone, I'......

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Categories: tollgate, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Black Tuesday
...THE BLACK TUESDAY (Tribute to the Victims of the EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Massacre in Lagos, Nigeria; Tuesday, October 20, 2020) Dark is the night, Darker the soul, Fathomless depths, Stories to......

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Categories: tollgate, africa, death, memorial day,
Form: Elegy



Scattered Screams
...SHATTERED SCREAMS ECHOES OF OUR SILENT SCREAM, TORTURE FROM A LEADER'S STEAM, DWINDLING OF OUR NATIONS DREAM. WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT AS A TEAM, OR WATCH THEIR THEATRICS LIKE A FILM. IF WE FIGHT, ......

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Categories: tollgate, 1st grade, grief, political,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Day
...Cedarville, Route 29, we drive these country roads reckless as late spring, stopping where farm folks sell iris cheap in extravagant colors – Redwing, Tollgate, Lavender Exchange – from fields ......

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Categories: tollgate, animals, death, nature, ,
Form: Free verse

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