Boroughs Poems - Poems about Boroughs

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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