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Best Urbanity Poems

Below are the all-time best Urbanity poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of urbanity poems written by PoetrySoup members


Escaping Humanity
Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

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Categories: urbanity, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



The Reason For Our Vitality
God is the Lord of all humanity,
And the reason for our vitality;
When we ignore Him, there's insanity,
Volcanity, lack of morality,
Senseless brutality, profanity,
That leads mankind towards...

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Categories: urbanity, bible, god, truth,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Parts and Counterparts
PARTS AND COUNTERPARTS

scrawled on the blackboard jungle, a mural
of profanity – pronouncing women’s names,
their parts and counterparts. reality creeps

from the verminous city streets.  the...

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Categories: urbanity, dark, evil, innocence, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Are the Universal Themes
Where are the universal themes,
the parables, the parallels that might
be drawn from humdrum, quotidian
happenstance?  We languish in these ruts
we live in and bear our...

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Categories: urbanity, 12th grade, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reality of Modern Times
In this new world, the reality of insanity
Elicits frail morality, losing deep values
To cuthroat urbanity. We thirst for quick fixes
And dismiss gentle formality although life
Grants...

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Categories: urbanity, corruption, humanity, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Twisted Reality
When I step inside your twisted reality ...
this is what my spiritual eyes see,
your soul revealed in it's totality
A scaly skin of self-serving morality ...
you...

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Categories: urbanity, corruption, dark, hate, metaphor,
Form: Verse
The Naked Truth
Behind the mighty structures of brick and stone,
Are the naked hands of people who stand alone,
Fighting against all odds through the sun & rain,
Until the...

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Categories: urbanity, dedication, meaningful, people, social,
Form: Rhyme
Finding My Way Home
In the West
I searched for a vision 
to capture and keep
and glimpsed lovely wings
in sky of azure
Summer was dressed in her best greens
and trees, like...

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Categories: urbanity, nature, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose
I Think, Therefore Am I
I Think, Therefore Am I?


Neck cracking penumbra
shines on starlit mundanity
ebon macabre epiphanies
fogwebs of my morality
my tongue twists ceaselessly
trinkets of truffled profanity
dearest mirror, mirror reality
has humanity...

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Categories: urbanity, humanity, perspective, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member People I Have Met
Within the humanity and inhabitants of Earth
there is an great diversity of human kind . . . 

I have met people full of urbanity with...

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Categories: urbanity, people,
Form: Free verse
Island of Insanity
The day my life went crazy
I dreamed I traveled
to the Island of Insanity,
when i arrived there wasn't
any sign of humanity,
it was totally deserted and
lacking any...

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Categories: urbanity, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Dreamer
Once upon a midnight otherworldly
My metaphysical, I could not awaken
Eagerly I looked for the literal
Through which came thrilling, thrilling, thrilling
The absurdist seemed happy instilling
The caring...

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Categories: urbanity, 12th grade, dream,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Volcanity Leads To Fatality
Humanity sometimes presents inanity

when mentality lacks solid morality.

Profanity awakens stark brutality...

replaces vitality with insanity.

Urbanity is lost in our reality
 
when our mundanity becomes formality

and dark...

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Categories: urbanity, inspirational, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Asylum Advent
On another Thames River,
with steady rural New England flow
toward Long Island's warming Sound
then on and out toward whispering drowned memories
of Atlantis,
slumbering on eastern bank,
surrounded by...

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Categories: urbanity, anti bullying, bereavement, health,
Form: Narrative
Humanities Realities
HUMANITIES REALITIES 


The morality rate is at an all-time low
Disparity runs ramped in the streets
The reality of it all screams out "NO"
While everyone's volcanity seethes...

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Categories: urbanity, betrayal, deep, fear, kids,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs