Best Borough Poems
Below are the all-time best Borough poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of borough poems written by PoetrySoup members
Upstate BluesIt can be kind of depressing,
living in upstate New York,
because of that damn city,
that grand ol’ attention whore,
I cannot go anywhere
without having to explain
that I...
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Categories:
borough, city, culture, funny, how
Form:
Rhyme
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...
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Categories:
borough, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Your Morning Bagel Doylestown PaYOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough...
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Categories:
borough, appreciation, blessing, business, nature,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Last TreeA pretty oak sits outside my window pane in the snow and in the rain
Covered with life, outside the balcony fifty steps away...
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Categories:
borough, nature, life, rain, tree,
Form:
Free verse
New York City - Vicious CyclePushed to the edge by reality, yes, these verses will stifle.
A revolving door always present; New York City....Vicious Cycle.
This is a poem about the hardships,...
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Categories:
borough, abuse, addiction, innocence, new
Form:
Couplet
In the Library of BmccSurrounded by heavy tomes
Chronicling the history of
countless generations
One can only feel a sense of
awe...
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Categories:
borough, education, history, tribute, may,
Form:
Ballad
Another Season - Smokey MemoriesThe Brooklyn Cyclones
now represent the borough
of Brooklyn
where I spent my
formative years...
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Categories:
borough, nostalgia, sports, world,
Form:
Blank verse
Lane Changedead end street …
mostly elderly when we came
always quiet …
empty nests side-by-side
aching for spring
but winter came instead
(the winter of life)
friends … good people -
town...
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Categories:
borough, analogy, appreciation, change, history,
Form:
Free verse
Earthbound SobrietyWhile crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.
Brooklyn in its...
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Categories:
borough, history, hope, imagination, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Doylestown Pennsylvania Your Morning BagelYOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough...
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Categories:
borough, beauty, birth, food, time,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
My Teacher-A ButterflyHere is my teacher,there flies my teacher
One who taught me to be higher the Reacher
Do not lose hope she said,For morrow
Strive hard and walk through...
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Categories:
borough, butterfly, inspiration, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
The Indiscriminate Slayings of the InnocentsThe massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives,
Have recorded...
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Categories:
borough, abuse, angel, baby, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
What About WolfsWHAT ABOUT WOLFS
shel silverstein: a bit childish, his giving tree my kids remember, though its parts were dismembered as it gave to the bitter end...
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Categories:
borough, poets,
Form:
Tazkira
A Qunintessential Brooklyn NightWent to see a minor league game
in the fabled borough of Brooklyn
Ate hot dogs at Nathan's
then headed...
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Categories:
borough, baseball, urban,
Form:
Blank verse
Out of the BlueEvery one I know has a girl friend
Every one except me
And that is why for special occasions
I don’t like to go by the family
Because they...
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Categories:
borough, life, lonely, love,
Form:
Light Verse