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Townies Poems - Poems about Townies


Deceiving Bird Calls
...For as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad; keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad. Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird. Bred Strawberries an......

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Categories: townies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Deceiving Bird Calls
...For as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad; keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad. Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird. Bred Strawberries an......

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Categories: townies, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member He Said She Said We Did and They Were
...He said she said we did and they were. My brain has shut down. Slammed shut with a banging sound. Clang! I am sure this is fascinating talk for the townies who have lived in this small town f......

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Categories: townies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Town Children
...I cannot lie. A townie’s legs are kind of atrophied. Too much couch sitting for our tummies to get taunt. Unfit, unhealthy, unresponsive, unable to hide, we sit and wait for our food to arrive by......

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Categories: townies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 4th of July In My Hometown
...The 4th of July in my hometown is Bigger than Christmas Because all of the non-townies come home It is bigger than Homecoming There is a carnival, and a parade. The high school band plays. ......

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Categories: townies, july,
Form: Free verse



Witch Hunt
...There was an old lady, a frumpy old bag who people called horrid, a witch and a hag And 'though she was ugly and danced 'mid moonbeams all was not quite as it might've then seemed Old-fashioned......

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Categories: townies, community, humor, humorous, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lancaster Pike
...Down this once famous graveled road I drive by day and drive by night my mind replaying stories of times past. As if thinking about them can make them real again. Buildings standing with new fac......

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Categories: townies, childhood, history, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Kindest Man, New In Town
...He was the kindest man, with newfangled, unusual ways of doing things. He had a good heart, but was avoided by the townies. Died at thirty-eight, probably from a sense of shame As his business die......

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Categories: townies, death,
Form: Elegy
Stormy Weather
...Stormy Weather I never noticed until today That the wind blows south in east PA The sun only shines between five and nine And the rain comes in the summertime Everyone here waits for the smel......

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Categories: townies, nature, rain, storm, summer,
Form: Couplet
Seconder
...Brownies Townies.......

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Categories: townies, child, children, children, fun,
Form: Footle
Mulga Snakeyes
...Mulga Snakeyes Yes we went a Droving on the job As we rode around the mob With the cattle, just to earn our bit of pay with Uncle Charlie, to earn a bob a watching watching of watching f......

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Categories: townies, adventureme,
Form: Rhyme
Summers Everlasting
...Sand in sheets scuffing skin and reminding last nights attire reaks like bonfire a hundred days like this a sea of endless laughs rolling like filmreels infinitely looped fantastic ......

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Categories: townies, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Forking River Dam, Illinois
...Forking River Dam, Illinois Forking River CharlaXFabels Forking Dam Forking,Ill. 189 John M went camping and took his friend Timmy. Off they went to the Forking River Dam. ......

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Categories: townies, holiday, imagination, on writing
Form: Prose Poetry

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