Best Escalator Poems

What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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My shoes lie prone like dogs waiting for a new adventure
Will it be a soft seashore shuffle?
A jaunt through the mall, all dusty with grime
A...

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Been too long in solitude.
 Sounds hound, multitude.
 Cacophony and breathless

Wheel up to escalator.
 Nowhere an elevator.
 Bewildered and helpless.

Mad world, haste, blind
 Homeless man,...

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This is how I see what has happened so far with the election. I will support whoever becomes president until they prove, by their actions,...

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Take life for an escalator
Go both through its ups 
and downs
Ride it like on an elevator
Expect both smiles and 
frowns.

Take life for a suspense 
novel
you...

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Kind Of Blue (For Miles Davis)

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx Ny 1991


Before they could lower Miles 
into the damp, dark ground
Two of the PALL BEARERS
Thought they heard...

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I see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to...

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It's five o'clock, she checks her watch, at last the work day's done
Her forehead pounds, a coke is found, she gulps two aspirin down
Walking through...

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Walking from the horrid old motel, and out into the smaze, 
a suffocating day, worsened now, by a mocktail shade of smog
in mockumentary proportions, she...

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FUNNY ALPHABETS FOR KIDS

               A to Z, each is an alphabet...

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Two eloping hearts evergreen like equatorial rainforests,
entwined in the eternal escalator of love,
leaving a trail of lovely lavender fragrance;
her touchscreen face tempting him to touch,
to...

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Spilling some ink as quick as ya eye's blink,
These freestyle writings are the missing link,          ...

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Her unforgiving lips
Still so temping, Tho forbidden 
Maybe its was just lust
Or worst, My one true love
She's now gone with the wind
The rustling of the...

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Wally’s going to the mall today to buy some things he needs,
like toothpaste, soap, and bubble bath, and packs of flower seeds.
The first thing in...

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When I let one loose in the elevator,
I preferred to be on an escalator
It seemed to worsen every floor
With no escape, just a tightly closed...

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