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Brooklyn Poems - Poems about Brooklyn

Premium Member Pave the Adirondacks
They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green," "Head upstate, change the scene," Nature's arms open wide, So I took that long Amtrak ride. I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was bear So I took my pit-bull Chewbacca, any bear would beware His last victim was a carjacker on the lam. Teeth clamped on...

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Categories: brooklyn, nature,
Form: Lyric
My Brooklyn
There may have been neighborhoods with green lawns, playgrounds, and ballfields a short walk from houses with enough bedrooms for everyone. Houses that stood apart from one another, so owners could park cars in garages set towards the back and then walk on paved walkway to back doors leading to kitchens with modern appliances, but I live with five others in a three-bedroom six-room...

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Categories: brooklyn, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Brooklyn
Brooklyn Salt beef with onion sandwiches. Goat cheese made near the wailing wall The waiter is a scientist. Intelligent eyes behind thick-lensed glasses do not dare to leave a tip. The burden of my ancestors weighed heavy on my mind. The chicken soup was excellent I shan´t return Before Palestine is a sovereign state...

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Categories: brooklyn, allah, america, chanukah,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Upper Room At Green and Grand In Brooklyn
A single blue bird perched above the rest Not all birds of a feather flocked together; Each mount with reverence brought comfort much closer, Time's passages once feared, held a single test. The test of a life time suited and disguised, The unknown harbors lessons to be learned Solitary souls do find their way home - I have seen shriveled dead folks...

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Categories: brooklyn, abuse, addiction, change, inspiration,
Form: Bio
Crooklyn
Brooklyn, New York is my hometown, There's always something going down. So many different places, Religions, and races, Walking so fast you'll only get a glimpse of their faces. A huge melting pot located in the County of Kings, Where the sirens of firetrucks, ambulances, and cop cars sing. Good Old Brooklyn, where the great times never end, There's a Pub or...

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Categories: brooklyn, appreciation, childhood, city, happiness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Brooklyn Cyclone Number Nine
Brooklyn Cyclone number nine Is not ready to decline Clipity clop it climbs Into the blue sky where the sun shines Until it turns orange while enjoying evening wine There is magic in the air Summer loving with the one who cares Flashing lights all around Tradition of a rural community fairground Instead this is on...

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Categories: brooklyn, america, baseball, city, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mango Tree In Brooklyn
A Mango Tree In Brooklyn A mango is not only a fruit it’s an island An image of memories, it organic taste This represents the first bite to the last: Tracing back to its originality, Tropical warmth, which smooths the lips The sweet, succulent taste is noticeable: Somehow, the roots refuse to grow In Brooklyn, amount the sandy earth Where the suffering...

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Categories: brooklyn, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Evening In Brooklyn
The former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers lives on! Some of my loved ones still live there Brooklyn has some things going for it Such as the great Brooklyn Museum and the Botanical Gardens Coney Island is unique And the borough has the Brooklyn Cyclones team and the Brooklyn Nets basketball team Famous people have called...

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Categories: brooklyn, appreciation, urban,
Form: Verse
Clothesline View of Brooklyn
Window viewing a wall knows no world other than brick square against nothing; laundry blows in the yellow tinged wind. Flaps mimic birds flying. Bras trapped by wooden pins, splintering. Grey points piercing smoldering dust and fiber on its way to the refuse below. A push from an unseen hot whisper of foul breath smashes it into a window viewing a wall....

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Categories: brooklyn, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pulaski Street
tired, chain driven trucks  coal pouring into basements  ice up five long flights...

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Categories: brooklyn, america,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Brooklyn Bound
White ... frost-clad cabled vaults - join thoughts to sky ... my city slumbers 'neath its cloak of snow. ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Make It Five" Poetry Contest, Joseph May, Judge & Sponsor. ( Syllables = 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 - counted at HowManySyllables.com )...

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Categories: brooklyn, appreciation, city, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Tetractys
Brooklyn Noreaster
White Winter Comes with snow— Traffic’s banished, As wind plays the Bridge like a theremin. September 23, 2019...

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Categories: brooklyn, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Brooklyn Bridge In Winter
It's snowing on the bridge this winter day with a pathway of awe inspiring drifts __________________________ September 20, 2019 Poetry/Tetractys/Brooklyn Bridge in Winter Copyright Protected, ID 19-1182-583-02 All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym. Written for the contest, Make it Five sponsor, Joseph May, Inspiration image #2 First Place...

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Categories: brooklyn, winter,
Form: Tetractys
A Bigger Slice of Sky
A Bigger Slice of Sky The sky was only visible in long narrow slices while we played on one-way Brooklyn streets Thick with kids apartment houses one next to the other lined the sidewalks like great canyon walls rising six or eight stories while the sun moved through the day creating hard edged shadows that flowed and softened with each passing hour street level storefronts shoulder to shoulder with...

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Categories: brooklyn, city, growth, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge New York and the Boros ...

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Categories: brooklyn, america, art, beautiful, black
Form: Haiku

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