Best Subway Poems

Retired sweetness paints
a tiled mosaic of
unpredictable patterns.

Black, brown shapes
spatter the 
grey concrete of 
an underground kingdom.

The fresh ones burn
pink and seafoam 
green against
this steely blue 
and yellow lined world.

The stickiness clings
onto shining 
out of spectrum, 
before becoming
another dot
in dark masses....

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To me, it was a revealing experience…
                That I could be that strong in face of adversity!
                    ...

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Trains passing by late at night 
depths
Heads home filled with people
Blacks, Hasids and others
(originally published in Poetalk)...

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Seated in the station
At a table he had brought,
A poet (as his sign announced)
Typed poems that he had wrought.

His hands were ready at the keys
To tap out a request;
Just choose a topic and you’d hear it
In his words expressed.

He offered me his email list;
I added...

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 I ride the Subway every time.
The people that I see there are not my kind.
Some have phones on which they play games, others talk like no ones there.
Some read and some look around.
Some listen to music that you can't hear a sound.
It's so strange...

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watch the crowd...faces
without looking at each other’s eyes,
as if iodized by  the pang
 of  forlorn gasps…
nameless, alone,   they  grip
on the hand-rests 
from a dreary night where roofs of anonymity 
blind them all    
empty, empty   ...

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A subway musician with salsa-like beat
In the sea of commuters, all surging,
Made some do a double-take at such a treat,
While out of the crowd was emerging…

A couple who dropped both their bags and their coats
To grasp shoulders and waists to start dancing.
They swiveled their hips...

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riding the subway 

free graffiti art shows move 

in scenes of fast past...

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They’re building a subway
(They call it the Q)
To run underneath
Second Avenue.

It’s nearing completion
(But way overdue).
They’re hoping by New Year’s
To have its debut.

Construction’s so noisy
(If you only knew!)
That the neighborhood feels
It’s been getting the screw.

But now they’re on deadline
(With much ballyhoo)
And the streets are so tight
You...

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A sudden stop, the engines shut
As folks glance up from reading.
Some shrug, some cluck and others (me!)
Have faces pinched and pleading.

A minute passes, maybe two,
But then there’s an announcement:
“A passenger is sick, so we
Are stuck,” is the pronouncement.

I take a breath and try my best
To...

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Sitting by the steps of the old avenue subway
In his ragged long sleeves shirt, he completes my day
In my year long rides, he never missed to say
Words of day to day sunshine ray

He's a man who never begged nor asked for a thing
A day without...

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Wanted to celebrate my new favorite mode of non-walking
Now I can do the trash talking
Will finance mine and pay, pay, pay
But cruising on my Sagway
Stopped by the cleanest fast food place today
A regular at the local Subway
Chicken Teryaki and sweet onion sauce
With this sub many...

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It's a short fat sub that I'll grab to bite
Where the juice runs down my gums
As the flavour pools upon my tongue
and my grip becomes all thumbs

And I start to chew while breaking peppers
As the juice explodes and cools
While the taste seems strong and lasts...

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I can't breath
I know it's time 
Say goodbye
I stare at the ground 
It's time to go home
I don't want to
I want to be with you
I want to stare into your eyes
I want to feel your lips 
Pressing against mine
Your tongue as it licks
My heart
Your arms...

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hanging straps and travel apps.
beeping doors and littered floors.
rocking cars and metal bars.
rattling track and aching back.
ticket fare and lack of air.
bags on lap and 'mind the gap'.
heavy heat now WARREN STREET:


Way Out. 
Places.
Platform spaces.
Cell Phones. Faces. 
Adverts every too few paces.

Noone cares. 
Moving stairs....

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