Boroughs Poems - Poems about Boroughs

...Local breweries abound And in New York there can be found Beers from Brooklyn and from Queens And all the boroughs in-betweens. My spouse and I, both city-born, Love I.P.A.’s, so we were torn ......Read the rest...

...In the smiting chill of a dreadful wintry night When through every fiber n’ nerve, was the cold bite, I was sitting cocooned beside my hearth, Sipping a cup of steaming tea of my choic......Read the rest...

...He enters the neighborhood bitter from cold cases old grudges and gripes his musty breath is shallow stone cold coming from his angry nostrils transferred yet again for bad behavior after suc......Read the rest...

...I conjured the word persackerley To go with the region Fazakerley, Not mentioned in verse most of the time Because of the difficulty of finding a rhyme, So this North Liverpool suburb is little k......Read the rest...

...Family I've been at the deepest boroughs with them In deep having real conversations, and for a moment I thought That finally I'd gotten through them Only to be disappointed all over It's li......Read the rest...

...From marble and granite to steel and glass, we were discussing Rhina Espaillat’s On the Avenue in class, was it 1950s or 1980s NYC and were the fifties the city’s halcyon days or is it now, the 20......Read the rest...

...It’s late in the morning the squirrels have let me know Its time for their breakfast, peanuts on the side porch On the railings near where the old Olive tree grows There they stand fussing and sta......Read the rest...

...Mind your Bees Buzz Sting Ouch Sweet honey, bumble and killer bee Nectar of Yellow catkins Abandoned boroughs High mountain meadows And hollow trees Nests expand Turn away if oc......Read the rest...

...The orchids in the Garden show, So gorgeous, on display, Must wonder what they’re doing there In colorful array. For it’s a long way off from where They usually grow, Where animals and insect......Read the rest...

...Dancing through meadows Leaping over streams, Walking through boroughs With you my smile beams. Under the charms of summer With her golden glow, Enticing two lone lovers To let feelings grow......Read the rest...

...I'm not quite sure when they first arrived by boat stepping onto Ellis Island which is in New York, alls I know is that my ancestors came from Germany, Wales and Ireland, probably in the 1850s......Read the rest...

...If and when a boarding pass equals an educational equilibrium then equators could sing. But Tiburon turbulent tuning turrets can often be misplaced and therefore undetected by a radar which measures ......Read the rest...

...Shimmering sea, glimmering waves Glistening waters, mirroring moon-glow Beyond the beaches, coral lagoons Mellow boroughs, dotting the shore Rising sun, peaking through the sky Day has arriv......Read the rest...

...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 into one “Big Apple” More......Read the rest...

...I come from a place where its all about your pace Where hopes and dreams, Are written on your face Sink or Swim, How?, If in a fire hydrant we played Streams leading to sewage drains, Childhood dr......Read the rest...