Best Chicago Poems
Below are the all-time best Chicago poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chicago poems written by PoetrySoup members
Santa's Stayed On In ChicagoSoutherly breeze at my back
Curlicue clouds in the sky
Folks sport sunny smiles
A privilege to be alive
It's Spring after Christmas
...
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Categories:
chicago, christmas, spring, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battle of South ChicagoTHE BATTLE OF SOUTH CHICAGO
The freeze has brought them to a winter night
they've made themselves, forgetting what is right,
and though they see their children cry
there's...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, chicago, grief,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
To Chicago With Love, a LetterDear Chicago.
Sometimes, it amazes me how a memory will flash across our minds,
and that memory will spark a prayer, a tear, or even a longing...
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Categories:
chicago, memory, prayer,
Form:
Personification
Bio:Closing Time,Memories
CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB
The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...
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Categories:
chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form:
Bio
Ee Cummings and I
E.E.CUMMINGS AND I
I remember a beautiful, Spring
day in Chicago.
Sitting on my lover's lap.
His eyes as lovely as the spring-
green trees tapping gently on...
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Categories:
chicago, emotions, inspiration, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Putting On the RitzI pulled up to the Stork Club in a bright Red Coupe Deville. I must admit I felt a bit of pride as I tossed...
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Categories:
blessing, chicago, cool, crazy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Invisible PrisonInvisible Prison
I look at the wall
I look at the floor
I look out the window
I look at the door
No clock on the wall
No light in the...
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Categories:
chicago, death, depression, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The Silkworm's Birthday
"The Silkworm’s Birthday"
Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in...
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Categories:
chicago, grandchild, imagery, love,
Form:
Free verse
The RedlineMy room at the Hyatt
Smelled like my ex-wife
She didn't have oodles of class
Or wasn't overly fancy
So, it must be that aroma of
Almost masking...
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Categories:
baseball, chicago, humorous, sports,
Form:
Free verse
The MuseThe Muse
I remember it well when in the summer evenings
I went to see her we drank wine and made love
Embraced we slept to morning...
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Categories:
celebrity, chicago, chocolate, city,
Form:
Blank verse
Elegy, Anniversary of My Fathers Funeral9/22/1983
I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!
You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...
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Categories:
chicago, death, father daughter,
Form:
Elegy
As I RecallAs I recall it was December
When a blizzard closed down O’Hare
I was sick of northern winters
While the sun was shining south somewhere
I remembered in a...
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Categories:
beach, change, chicago, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
Urban Math 101the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break...
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Categories:
chicago,
Form:
Free verse
The Second CityWhat comes through a pistol barrel
May make holes in your apparel
But it could be worse ....
You won't need an hearse
If the next shot makes you...
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Categories:
chicago,
Form:
Limerick
Innocence Remembered
In a lovely city, quiet and small.
That aroma of French coffee set me reeling.
With robins' wings casting lovely shadows on the wall.
And my lavender morning...
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Categories:
chicago, kid, memory, summer,
Form:
Quatrain
--A Star Danced--
* A Star Danced*
So ebony soft is indeed this night.
However, only to be lit by a dancing star.
I...
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Categories:
chicago, dance, dedication, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
A Day Within Days- Rondeau
How free I was, I did not know.
Growing up in Chicago, oh
Police in blue, protected streets.
Life was sparkling and sweet.
Verdant lawns were so gleefully...
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Categories:
america, chicago, corruption,
Form:
Rondeau
Falling On Chicagos Ice*****************
Golly , I was just thirteen and coming back from school.
In winter, in Chicago, to not walk fast on ice, was
near a golden rule!
The wind...
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Categories:
chicago, memory, weather, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Ho-Hum, Here Are the KeysHo-hum, another war lost
We should have won
Our new partner for peace ~ the Taliban
Ho-hum, a new school year
First semester's curriculum
...
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Categories:
america, change, chicago, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Seated At the Right Hand of the FatherGood
at hiding
it
won't know to look at
handicap
disability
embarrassment, worse than bad breath
must have smacked my head against something
when I was playing good cop, bad cop
and I...
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Categories:
chicago, child, culture, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
baseball, chicago, happy, image,
Form:
Shape
SummerI swear to the summer-
I am a well-aged drummer...
Like liver and pee's,
like grease on the tree's,
like sweet tarts and tea.
I swear to the summer-
I am...
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Categories:
chicago, america, baby, change, character,
Form:
Imagism
The RefugeeA Refugee
He had been given a lift by a Lithuanian truck driver
to a little town in inland Norway where the winter
starts in September...
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Categories:
chicago, boat, boyfriend, business, care,
Form:
Sonnet
A Life Changing 'Misdial'A Life Changing Misdial
One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school. ...
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Categories:
adventure, change, chicago, education,
Form:
Narrative
I Am What I AmI am what I am, not what you'd like me to be. I see, do, & believe in all that I believe, do, or see....
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Categories:
america, chicago, identity, society,
Form:
Rhyme