Best Cityscape Poems

Cityscape

The artist’s hand reshapes yesterday
    In straight lines
    Of hard edges -
Peaks of 
    Right angles perfected
    Missing oblique or obtuse –
Claiming the horizon
    In full frontal 
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Hustle and bustle
Of downtown
Menacing skyscrapers
And their shadows
Sensing the gravity
Picking up the pace
Rushing from point A
To elusive point B 
Traffic signs and lights
Pressure building
The simmering stress
The outsider rushing
Through the haze
Glaring through fog
Reminiscing the days
The rush the panic
Surreal and frigid
Illusory haste
Made up and fake
Fraudulently grandiose  ...

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Lights dawning
Sleepyheads yawning
Babies crying
Mothers sighing

Coffee pouring
Busses roaring
Winds shifting
Debris drifting

Laborers hurrying
Rats scurrying
Teen-agers snoring
Alarm clocks ignoring

Stoplights blinking
Drivers unthinking
Airplanes arriving
Passengers surviving  

Tender hearts
Works of art
Lovers part 
A new day starts...

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Now is time spent here as moments fly fast;
We grope with faint light as life trips and falls;
Hidden in our tears glimpses that outlast;
We latch our fond sights lest troubles fling gall.
Day by day we hear echoes of old chimes;
Whispers of a hint in wind...

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art of                                          ...

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vertical

      linear

         lines

tall

twin blocks-

        symbols
              of the
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welcome to the many windowed cityscape
the wanton color of badly mixed paint
with a parade of personal lives
like black stockings full of runs
strafed by formations of overhead birds
whose small eyes think only to judge
passing, teasing wisps of cloudy twirl
confining we dwellers to a sunless cave
thousands and...

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Rumble, rumble, rumble, goes the packed cart
Tumble, tumble, tumble, goes the boy's heart
And despite my fear of his dirt and size
There was something more in him we despised
Some reflection of self we did not know
Ego and superego in turmoil contending
For a better throne, a better...

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Cityscape 

You point to the sky
Yet you're rooted to earth
Your colourless windows
Reflect sunshine and mirth 

If stark is an asset
You're bringing it, plenty
So stoney and cold
On the outside.. so empty 

What happened to humans?
That we're all locked away
With tablets and iPads
In our prisons so grey

I...

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We had a folk connection to everything
To times and place
But most of all to men
The landmark souls of Montego Bay:
Big-Hungry was one of them,
Hero that a wayward child could prize.

He was a big man
Muscles hard as old tree root
This tractor
That gave the city character
Seemed iron...

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The tired sun sets over an everbustling city
Blinding dazed commuters heading west
Their cars in single file attempt to scatter
I hear a sound of hush descend over the cityscape
While towers scraping as high as they can reach
Just crave to punch their card and call it a...

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Do the guns still stand there
Where my scout troupe met
Menacing the sea with old fear
Recalling an era of regret.
Do they still tell yarns of ships
Shooting stray canons wide
Over Lucea, and do the lips
Of children hunger at fireside
Where the canon knocks pot off
Expecting inocense to laugh.

Do...

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It was Avia that introduced me to you
She is dead, you know
She died in Brooklyn ... boy, she was blue
I had seen you before
Always by Martin's Travel Service building
Is it the same as JUTA now?
You sold everything there,
You were the only who is who
We could...

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concrete jungle heat
suffocating cityscape 
~ bare feet loving grass...

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Everything seemed
So natural
Nothing irregular
Look how far
We've come
Look how far
We've gone
The sand
Falls quickly
Leaving
Glitter in
Its wake
The neon lights
Creating rainbows
On the ceiling
Wanted to reach
Still want to reach
The blue fireworks
Blue
Not quite there yet
Two years later
Seems like
Distance and time
Took it too far
Still remember
The feeling
Of the cityscape
The kaleidoscope
Of colors of windows
Streetlights...

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