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Upstate Poems - Poems about Upstate

Premium Member I Just Called To Say I Love You
... Nightbird croons at me again, again beneath a sheet of clouds, like cozy pillow to my moon to tuck my ruffled mind away... Through drizzle's fading glint and flow I muse about my man......

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Categories: upstate, devotion, romantic love,
Form: Romanticism
Hermit Carb Poem
...Step Outline- Hiking Trail (A Horror) Prologue Ext. Woodland Park, Upstate California- Sunset It’s mid-autumn, hot. A week before school starts, there’s a family gathering. A young woman is ......

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Categories: upstate, dark, daughter, father, film,
Form: Free verse



You and I
...You and I Were once two trees– Two budding saplings Placed too close To grow together An Upstate transplant, My midwestern limbs, Opened wide to hold you, Casting too much shade On your br......

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Categories: upstate, allegory, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member EV shock therapy
... I went to my car dealer, I hoped to save the planet The saleslady told me EVs were cheap, and to call her Janet She said we've got so many subsidies, and they're a great deal I bought a F-150 Li......

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Categories: upstate, car, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Autumnal New York
...Shimmering in a chilly mist, skyscrapers overlooking NYC. August left into September's cooler mornings, schoolchildren dressed in plaid and Hush Puppies. In Central Park the leaves are a green-......

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Categories: upstate, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pave the Adirondacks
... They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green," "Head upstate, change the scene," Nature's arms open wide, So I took that long Amtrak ride. I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was b......

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Categories: upstate, nature,
Form: Lyric
Evolution of My Life
..."Evolution of My Life“Evolution of My Life” In Upstate New York's rustic veil, A warrior's story slowly starts to sail, A tale of scars that won't subside, Of PTSD's heavy,......

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Categories: upstate, addiction, age, america, anxiety,
Form: Personification
The Doomed Tornado
...Up in long bands of gray and white angry clouds are whirling, fingers stretch downwards to the ground, faint traces of swirling. the farmer sees it and suspects what nature is unfurling. Glad a......

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Categories: upstate, imagery, nature, sky, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member cabbage woman
...I like my vegetable women raw, raw, raw This was sung by the local lah-dee-dah He is a jokester from upstate near McCaw We did not know if he meant “rah rah rah” Or did he mean rather “raw raw ra......

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Categories: upstate, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Corporate America
...Gagged by the navy neck-tie crowned upon him by the last soldier, the businessman precariously waltzes the death march down into “Sam’s Greens and Grains”, a specialty salad shop that locally sources......

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Categories: upstate, corruption, prison, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member cabbage woman
...I like my vegetable women raw, raw, raw This was sung by the local lah-dee-dah He is a jokester from upstate near McCaw We did not know if he meant “rah rah rah” Or did he mean rather “raw raw ra......

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Categories: upstate, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Eat Horses
...Horse meat’s tender and horse meat’s lean. Makes the best damn meal that you ever did eat. It’s cheaper than beef and bigger than goat. Horse meat is the way to go. You can fry it on up, and yo......

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Categories: upstate, horse, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Homeless Man Named Robbie
...Away to Vermont on a Dr's appointment. Coming back and riding the Ferry to New York my wife Judy and I decided to stop off at Panera Bread for lunch thru the Drive thru. I notice a man counting his f......

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Categories: upstate, heartbroken, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Night With Joe Bonamassa
...Billboard named him the year finest blues musician. Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician, He was designed to be a famous musician. His family owns a guitar store in upstate New York......

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Categories: upstate, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Joe Bonamassa Inspiration
...Joe Bonamassa is famous for more than just guitar skills. but as for the lovely array of ancient antiques, His "Nerdville" house is filled with tools and artifacts. Joe Bonamassa han......

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Categories: upstate, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio

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