Boroughs Poems - Poems about Boroughs

WISDOM OF OZ

...WISDOM OF OZ/Words/

THEY CALLED HIM THE WISDOM OF OZ/A BALLER, BANGER/ WITH A WIDE RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE
INTO THE STREET LIFE OF PIMPIN’,LOAN SHARKING, SHAKE DOWN’S,GRAB –N-SNACH/ DON’T LEAVE YOUR D...

I told you long ago that this land called Romania

...I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under...

I told you long ago that this land called Romania has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams

...I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under...

Iceman the Bronx

...The Iceman the Bronx/Tony Adamo

I DIG THAT THE ICEMAN’S BACK, HITTING THE SPOKEN WORD STAGES IN THE BRONX AND THE OTHER BOROUGHS IN NEW YORK/AFTER ALL HE IS BORN AND BREAD IN DE BRONX/WORD SPITTER...

I grew gray hair

...Mom, I am stressed.
(On weekends I wake up at 12'o'clock)
Mom, I am stressed.
(Warm food is always awaiting)
Mom, I am stressed.
(You and dad haven't locked my phone)
Mom, I am stressed.
(The ...

Rival Brews

...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
...

Winter's Slumber

...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...

Mr excessive force

...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...

Fazakerley

...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...

Family

...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...

On the Avenue

...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...

My Fellow My Crow Addition

...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...

Mind Your Bees

...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...

Orchids

...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...

When I'M With You

...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...

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