Chicago Poems | Examples of Chicago Poetry

Back of the stockyards, over 100 years ago Immigrants were easy prey, as many now know Landlords would slap paint over rat-infested dwellings ...Read the rest...

Taskmaster Sung? *****, ***** do that what masTar says; B tat Dat yo own filthy slave; *****, ***** stay on them knees; Do that, watch that masTar you must please; That spiritual yoke we've got round yo neck; Is ta lead...Read the rest...

festive India oregano and curry ~ taste of Chicago...Read the rest...

Looking over the desperate situation of corruption on the streets and behind bars when false information goes in the wrong hands like corrupt Hernandez and Garcia junk sick working security for the gangs again wires...Read the rest...

The game of chance karnolfell the trickster deal the threats by passing the little Carnes folk crawling into a Volkswagen chanting cackling mud wrestling spooning the Joker finally faced down calls in a favour from...Read the rest...

~ aka 'Better Duck' ~ ‘Goose-a-Go-Go’ opened in Kokomo Fans demanded it move to Chicago A...Read the rest...

A gift from the most high, my next of kin So precious and priceless, undisputed My son, never to be trade for any, my reason Every season from season to season without seizing Striving and thriving,...Read the rest...

Hit me again this game is rigged tell that fat guy with the fat suitcase to bring my money back don’t you dare try to put my money to sleep again I’m awake my money...Read the rest...

I am but a poet not a scholar but a writer creating my own network of emotions balanced over sudden mental break’s absence of tolerance to be quieted to be numb empty eccentrically desired memoirs...Read the rest...

The lady with red dreadlocks Toni Townsend Johnson henry she was one rasta Andrews female drug dealer from the devils triangle in Tampa outside USF where I received mental health treatment for my severe anxiety...Read the rest...

I wanted to be everything in my life but not a writer I wanted to scream shout and fight for everything but my timid self couldn't be a fighter, And now  It feels like writing has become an...Read the rest...

As I sit wandering about the south side of Chicago captured effortlessly by the tall dandelions watching the lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails we often lit them just before the sun sets over George...Read the rest...

It was 1986 I was setting in after giving birth to my first son after wearing wires pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...Read the rest...

. for public domain Sometimes my shadow, more inviting than me, a dark apparition on city walkways, catches the passing cast down eye, more so than the benched shadow caster nearby. The shadow invites no one to speak, to open one's...Read the rest...

We finally arrived after going through metal detectors passing through so many children mothers praying for their sons then there was us my curiosity of it all passing the guards I felt strange this place...Read the rest...