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Rockford Poems - Poems about Rockford


Confess, Corn Flakes!
... You know her You feel she mingles in your reason in rhythm Not with your possible pain of angina in arrhythmia She is a calm serenity prayer that knows your tear and that needs to run down o......

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Categories: rockford, art,
Form: Free verse
Who Remember the Good Ole Days
...Only the Real OG's will remember. All of these old movies are from back in the day. Some of you will remember and some of you won't have a clue of what I am talking about. Let's go down memory la......

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Categories: rockford, change, growing up, life,
Form: Narrative



DAYS OF OLD 70's
... Do you recall? Felix the cat, Or Taxi and Kojak. Fantasy Island and Starsky and Hutch. Monty Python and The Brady bunch. Saturday cartoons and Mission impossible. Batman a......

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Categories: rockford, community, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Favorite Things
...Dirty martinis and Cuban cigars Fishnet stockings on hookers Playing my guitar. Long days at the beach Women without wedding rings Making a list of my favorite things Sex before Breakfast ......

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Categories: rockford, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
A Generation 2
...We had Gumby and Pokey, And Sanford & Son. We had Mark Spitz, And Monty Python. We had Lenny Bruce, And Chips. We had the Sex Pistols, And A Ballroom Blitz. We had M......

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Categories: rockford, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Eyde Brothers of Ww Ii
...Four brothers brought up to revere God and love country. From Rockford, Illinois, a close suburb of Chicago. Frank, who grew up to be a Marine. Ralph, who joined the Army and John, an Air Force m......

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Categories: rockford, war,
Form: Free verse
No Country For Old Men In Love
...After being together for years in this marriage The same old routine seems to be wearing thin Something was needed to spark up the flame I would fall victim to thoughts of mistrust When your love......

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Categories: rockford, abuse, analogy, cousin, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Died In 2014 - Part 2
...Don Pardo: Born: 1918-02-22 - Died: 2014-08-18 He’s been gone from SNL We heard he wasn’t feeling all that well Don Pardo’s number came around The Lord was calling “Come on down” Lauren Bacall......

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Categories: rockford, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All I Want For Xmas Is a Poetry Membership
...All I want for Christmas Is my two front teeth All my back teeth A Mercedes or Bentley A life time membership to Hugh Hefner's mansion The rights to the song "If I had a million dollars" Cause ......

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Categories: rockford, birthday, christmas, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Where Was His Helmet
...Into the midnight cold he rides; a chance travel, on the wild side; this is the vision, that always repeats, whenever I think about that curvy Rockford Street. Alone he travels on his way home, ......

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Categories: rockford, death, family, farewell, funeral,
Form: ABC
Premium Member My Wishful Reality
...to cry The "Abby of Downton", was a in a class of it's own "Home Fires' burning, on Masterpiece thrones I want to laugh from my belly, and smile every night brought smiles, every night "Hitchcock" was scary and "Twilight Zone" too "The Fugitive" and "Rockford" were hunting for clues "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" took us out to the west "Lucy" and "Mash" were the best of the best!! Real people's problems leave me out in the cold I'd rather be w......

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Categories: rockford, funny, life, me, old,
Form: Rhyme

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