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Premium Member A Boston Tea Party Prelude
Tonight as candles flicker, she is sitting at the table
where her husband sat (before he passed away),
working on his daily crossword puzzles, 
seeming most content...

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Categories: boston, husband,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Boston Strong 2014 - One Year Later
Boston Strong 2014
                  One Year Later


There is a...

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Categories: boston, courage, fear, hero,
Form: Free verse
The Boston Massacre
In Boston they threw ice and oyster shells
As the British troops marched coldly by.
Till soon the streets were ringing with the yells:
“Lobster-backs!” the righteous raucous...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boston, history, political, war,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step On Love Street
The Dilettante Diaries: "The Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step on Love Street"


She said, "Pffft Bumble Bees Rule, 
No Bees, no World
Shy Little...

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Categories: boston, fantasy, humorous, imagery, muse,
Form: Romanticism
The Boston Tea Party - 1773
An ancestor known as, "Miss Lottie"
Was a New York socialite "hottie"
To her lasting disgrace
She slapped Paul Revere's face
When he invited her to the p-ah-ty...

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Categories: boston, america, confusion, funny, history,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Boston Bake Beans
Boston Baked Beans
                      ...

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Categories: boston, food,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member - Haiku X 13- Boston Bombs -
One lovely ballerina
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Categories: boston, death,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Boston
My heart has been in Boston
all week long
I shed some tears for Boston
while sitting in my home
I saw the people of Bosten
there filled with just...

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Categories: boston, baseball, bereavement, community,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Evie's Boston Cream Pie
Evie's Boston Cream Pie

Evie's Boston Cream Pie is so heavenly to eat I can't deny
She's the greatest cook that I dearly know of
Her cooking even...

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© Theresa Cw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boston, appreciation, food,
Form: Light Verse
Boston Marathon Tragedy
no doubt sympathetic poured in exceeding a ton
sans the reverberations from the supposed terroristic act doth stun
although neither a native bostonian son nor one who...

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Categories: boston, anger, conflict, dark, feelings,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Boston Rob
(Because I'm a fan of Survivor)


All-star "player" Boston Rob
didn't win Survivor. Sob!
No, matter. . . he got fame and by his side,
the pretty one who...

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Categories: boston, funny
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Another Boston Massacre
On 15 April, this was a horrific episode.
In the afternoon, three bombs would explode.
This happened near the end of the Boston run.
Scores of casualties resulted...

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Categories: boston, april, grief, pain,
Form: Rhyme
First Boston
When we got the news we were not totally shocked

          When we got the news a...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boston, sympathy, london,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Can rise high to
Any opponent
Internal or external...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boston, adventure, america, basketball,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Boston Marathon Bomb Blast: On a Festive Flag-Flapping Day of Fun
Terza Rima Sonnet On the Boston Marathon bomb blast: 
     On a festive flag-flapping day of fun

   for the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boston, native american, political,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things