Best New York Minute Poems

“In this life there’s been heartache and pain”
How could I begin to find love again
Desperado walking a tightrope
I looked down and Daniel gave me hope
 
“The first time ever I saw your face”
Cold heart melted, longed for your embrace
Your compassion and character shone
No longer could...

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14 hours in a New York minute,
I ought to stop,
But I can't quit it...

No answer to my call...
Is it the end
Of it all?

The pain, it does spread,
Making the future
Something to dread...

Somehow, some way,
I got to get out of here,
Cause I'm swimming
In a sea of fear...

So...

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‘ He’s Company ! … ’


He’s Not Down With Misery
 and Not Out with The In(flated)-Crowds
But He’s Up On Lady Liberty …
Laughing, New York-Minute, Out Loud !

‘Cause … if  Misery, Loves Company …
Company, Sure Don’t Love Misery !
Company … is Taking Care of Business
Strictly,...

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Dragon put out his shingle to be a psycho-analyst. 
        He claims he can cure the blues, in one single visit!
Also says he can stop those bent on suicide, 
        And...

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Note: Special thanks to Elizabeth Wesley for planting the seed (another one) for this poem.  And despite the dismal nature of this writing, Sanibel Island is still a beautiful place to see and visit.  


Sanibel, Sanibel, Sanibel dream;
Once we were lovers before I...

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I am New York 

Went for a drive 
Just a regular day
Though I saw love 
Going down a highway

Follow it down 
But it reaches out of state
Now I want to go home
Cause it’s getting late

I am New York 
Its home to me
The empire state building
And...

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Its all of your imagination, 
The night life,  in the day time? All the shine, in the 
New York,  New York,  kinda times
New York times in the winter months imaginable, very cold, 
Let me really make it in a New York kinda...

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Yes, to the dance and party at Hotel California.
You love the flirting game with pretty maids all in a row.
No more wasted time on the heartbreak endured in Georgia.
No sad desperado feel blocks your new, solo, man show.

You love the flirting game with pretty maids...

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I've always heard
about the New York minute
But nobody ever told me
about the New York hour
I'm speaking on the time of the day
when it seems like half the city
is out walking their dog

Everybody is aware,
everyone understands too
People have to let their dog out,
so they can do...

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It's sister dramatic verse is: The Entertainment Rating System.**

Because we have debased the word 'mother,'
by adding onto to it the F***Bomb!
Because we have debased both the words:
adult and maturity to also mean 
***********!**

Because we have shed innocent blood,
in the name of Freedom of Choice.
Because we...

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Enjamblious






Megalomaniac
When manic
Melancholia
Polar vortex

Mellifluous verse
As depression reversed

Darkness melodious
Nihilistic intelligence
Nocuous scribe

Demons of compulsion
And addiction
Haunt Storage
I
Described.
My will divide
My love denied
.
In desire.
I
Suffer

Rejection injection
Implied

Complication
This time.

REBORN OF FIRE.

This scorn.  This Rhyme
An oversimplification
In elaborate diatribe.

The musings of a liar

Enjambment
Deponent in ire
Indignant inside

METRICAL MEANINGS

In toxic entrapment
Magical beginnings
Tragic endings
Are insipient

I
Describe.

Prophesize

Catastrophized
In a linguistic limit
In...

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if I left my heart in San Francisco
but I'm in Luckenbach, Texas
if Chicago is my kind of town
but I need to please come to Boston
if by the time I get to Phoenix
I'm on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
if I shuffle off to Buffalo
can I catch...

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It's ninety eight degrees
in Jersey,
your hug felt limp, 
sweaty,
and forced,
like the old air conditioner
that creaked to life
when you made us coffee,
looking into my eyes,
just to show
you could be sober,
at least for a New York minute,
letting me know
a happy future wasn't an option
and love was only...

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Seems to come as a surprise
i want to ride the waves with you tonight
to breath in the smoke of the pain you left behind
in a New York minute i lost it all again
but back in California i'm no stranger to your friends
maybe just a tourist...

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The me that you see’s just a face that I wear.
You have no idea what’s really on my mind.
The me of my soul regards you over there 
As sly and elusive, your intentions undefined. 
The me that you see stands a distance apart 
From you...

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