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Best Times Square Poems

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From Times Square
Dazzling lights 
Throngs of people 
Walking through crowded streets 
  Reminds us of why we live here 
Costumed performers - Bright theatre marquees 
Seeing...

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Categories: times square, autumn, urban,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Without You
that first breath after hearing Beethoven
inhaling life from him
John’s many gifts to me

feeling his tears at La Boheme
hearing him laugh at Carmen
sharing the shock of...

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Categories: times square, husband,
Form: Free verse
A Boy Like Me?
In spite of it all....
Traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge, lights aglow
What a magnificent sight
Crossing the waters unto the city
Upon the dawning of the night....
On his...

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Categories: times square, adventure, faith, father, life,
Form: I do not know?
A Day In Manhattan
Riding in a taxi cab through canyons of concrete,
you will see thousands of inhabitants on each street.
This one of the five boroughs has everything complete.
What...

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Categories: times square, travel
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the City of Gilded Glamour
In the city of gilded glamour,
slow motion is seen as an outsider;
a slip of tongue is as common as mocking grins! 
They turn around and...

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Categories: times square, culture, emotions, humorous, language,
Form: Lyric



A Kiss On Vj Day
"Times Square was magnet to rejoicing
hearts, as mine was on that day the victors 
came. With roses, red, as were perhaps,
my cheeks, I vowed each...

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Categories: times square, anniversary, history, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
I Know Math Therefore I Am
You think your smart
but I’m smarter too.
You think your bright
 but vision lacks within your sight.
Why say these things do I?
Because brighter smarter, I can...

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Categories: times square, education
Form: I do not know?
Slice of Urban Life
Crowds in Times Square
Tourists blend with locals 
   and hit the theatre district 
         ...

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Categories: times square, eve, urban,
Form: Ballad
New York
Each single morning on my way to work
I fantasize what happens in New York
If I were to spend a long weekend there.
I'd ask you out...

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Categories: times square, adventure, fantasy, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bored In Manhattan
Sidewalks are full of people, yet no eyes do mine meet;
Taxis, by the thousands, litter the city street;
The sun is blocked out by high-rises with...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: times square, america, city, , western,
Form: Rhyme
The Apple City New York
While listening to Schumann’s “Arabesque” 
and “Fantasiestüche” for the Mozart B flat Sonata,
I feel the warmth and love that’s powerful within;
a moment of instrospection, a...

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Categories: times square, happiness, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Silly Limerick
There once was a fellow from New York
Who had a reputation of being a dork
Could be found in Times Square
Wearing pink underwear
And eating ice cream...

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Categories: times square, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Island Girl In the Big City
There was a moment 
in time and space no distance 
can erase when she was standing 
on an island in the middle 
of Times Square,...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: times square, city,
Form: Bio
The First Time Ever
"The Lobster House" on the St.
Johns River in Downtown-Downtown 1950s
Jacksonville, Florida, was where 
"The Creaturefrom the Black Lagoon" crawled 
up from the deep onto a...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: times square, adventure, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Bored In Manhattan
From my penthouse here in Manhattan
I observe crowds of bodies all in fast forward mode
Through slightly dampened windows I watch fascinated
As locals and visitors cramp...

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Categories: times square, adventure, culture, environment, usa,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs