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Townsfolk Poems - Poems about Townsfolk

Premium Member Milton Creek Election Week
...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week  For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek  It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue  ......

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Categories: townsfolk, america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member About This Place
...My haunting birth place, picture book of green scene bliss, brimming with winsome townsfolk, who ooze unfeigned charm, streets vibrate at crack of dawn, night life otherworld intrigue......

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Categories: townsfolk, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Choka



Premium Member POMPEII
...I look at my work. I look down on the valley. I'm proud of its richness, of its green fertile fields, And each time I do, I can count up the tally. My sacrificial top's loss produces great yield. ......

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Categories: townsfolk, history, loss,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Mountie Gets His Man
...Crime never pays, sooner or later the long arm of the law will reach you. Quote by poet. Sergeant Tim Wheeler’s shift was nearing the end, it had been a long day. He put his coat on, and t......

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Categories: townsfolk, prison,
Form: Free verse
The Night the Truth Stayed Silent
...The road was long, the night was cold, A stranger walked into the town. His coat was torn, his hat pulled low, His weary eyes fixed on the ground. The streets lay still, the lamps burned low, ......

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Categories: townsfolk, anger, evil, hero, hurt,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ballad of Barley Pettigrew - in Three Parts
...I - Barley Pettigrew I'll tell you a story, outstandingly true, of the young lad called Barley Pettigrew. He was born with nine fingers on his hands. For how high he could count, it met his de......

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Categories: townsfolk, bird, flower, love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Incident At Milton Creek Silver Mine
...Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek Preparation......

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Categories: townsfolk, america, christmas, december, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Santa versus The Grouch
...'Twas the night before Christmas, and there sat the Grouch, waiting for Santa and his present filled pouch. I'm sure that all of you have heard of the Grinch, but the Grouch is far worse, at least......

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Categories: townsfolk, christmas, holiday, humor, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vincent's Arles
... 20th February 1888, he left as snow fell in Paris, seeking warmth, bright light and colour. Provence beckoned, Arles awaited. Cold welcome soon turned warm, Vincent keen to explore, keen to adv......

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Categories: townsfolk, art, journey, paris, places,
Form: Free verse
Goosey Lucy
...In a humble hamlet, not so grim or glum, Lived a goose named Lucy, quite the funny one. With feathers fluffed and waddle wide, she'd roam about, Her honks and hijinks would make the townsfolk s......

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Categories: townsfolk, animal, funny, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
Billy Butcherson
...Once upon a Halloween night, Billy Butcherson came to life, A zombie with a tongue of tar, Brought back by three witches, so bizarre. Hocus Pocus, the witches chanted, In the night, their ......

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Categories: townsfolk, grave, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Boo!
...In the chill of night, when shadows dance and sway, A tale of Halloween, I'm bound to convey. A story woven from the threads of scare, Beware the whispers in the haunted air. In a quaint old......

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Categories: townsfolk, halloween, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Sewerman
...Grunt grunt below the gutter The man of the sewer works With his big old rusty spanner He twists the pipes, the nuts and bolts That struggle to hold the metal that jolts The rats and roaches s......

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Categories: townsfolk, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Circus Comes To Milton Creek
...Sheriff Koplin was woken up by a loud trumpeting sound Grabbed his Winchester and prepared to stand his ground A huge elephant was walking by it took him by surprise He'd never seen one in his......

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Categories: townsfolk, america, animal, humor, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member did it happen?
...Two Nazis the partisans killed For revenge a town's blood was spilled Resistors forgot Townsfolk would be shot Where hell seems forever instilled ......

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Categories: townsfolk, conflict, war,
Form: Limerick

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