I Picked up My Ears
Airplanes scream overhead
Lawn mowers abuzz on the ground
Traffic streams endlessly by
drowning out nature's intentions
all of her creatures’ sounds...
One lonely night in...
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Categories:
city, nature, sound, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
On the narrow streets of the city where light barely sneaks inOn the narrow streets of the city where light barely sneaks in,
The best people meet their end beneath a forgotten sheet of paper,
While the worst rise in bronze, statues for ages of oblivion,
Stone pilgrims on which pigeons leave their mark unabashedly.
In this theater of life, where values are overturned on the empty stage,
Unknown heroes disappear...
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Categories:
city, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
hiku
Categories:
city, imagery, night, poems,
Form: Haiku
In One CityI know a funeral when I walk into one
I can tell between a funeral and a burial
They are two entirely different artworks
One is done on grand canvas, with drunken strokes
Of sashaying brush and bleeding paints;
The other is done on mere sand, with foot and hand,
Forming sandcastles built by toddlers.
I know too well because I have...
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Categories:
city, community, death, farewell, funeral,
Form: Elegy
LondonLondon,
a great house standing by
a long water,
bathed by a golden sun
behind the closed doors
of the eastern clouds
that send stuttering rains
even on the hearth of summer
to salute all that pass
the kennels of the
city once they have legitimate
travel passes that will elevate
them high enough to see
the Big Ben -
a timely invention
chiming and tolling,
to remind us of our
immigrating...
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Categories:
city, london,
Form: Free verse
This one's for Blue'I used to say come to London.' Yet not now.' The violence
Is spiralling.' There is less value wow.' Not of tawdry glam
And glitz and such.' Yet of life.. and futures they don't seem
Worth that much.' I know Blues familiy.' No nonsense folk
Now living a nightmare.' Delivered by the social enrichment
Joke.' In 'sad-diks london...Or londinistan.? Its...
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Categories:
abuse, city, judgement, july,
Form: Rhyme
JaywalkingThis is when the old and the young,
beasts and confraternal drunks
damn the consequences of death
lying porous on crossroads upon
bifurcated paths, fractured junctions
and ceremonial cul-de-sacs...
The time is immaterial,
so long as the traffic lights — the veggie-green,
the claret, and the urine-amber —choose their slow
blinking and rapid-eyelid movement carefully.
And moon might decide not to power its own light.
Tenebrous...
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Categories:
car, city, travel, urban,
Form: Free verse
Take Back The Streets
There used to be a time I can still remember when
but times have changed they're not the same
we have to roll the rock turn back the clock
things are going wrong something's gone astray
the streets are yours and mine
let's make them safe for kids to play
the good old days do you still remember then
those days are...
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Categories:
children, city, how i
Form: Rhyme
stopping in an alley on a summer dayStopping in an alley on a summer day
rainbow trash exhaling its hot fetid breath
a scamper of invisible residents
searching for the remains of elegant dining
the Nordic hum of struggling A/C units
as an evening sun seems to avoid entry
music drifts from an open window
slowly fades in the humidity
peeking over my shoulder
I slide behind the dumpster…
...
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Categories:
city, summer,
Form: Free verse
Confronting Shadows
The city lights are often burning bright
but what may lurk in shadows of the night?
Around the corner lover's locked embrace
or homeless, roaming streets to find a place.
The laughter loudly heard from a night bar
or music sweetly playing from afar.
Could see some pretty girls walk down the street
excited at the prospects they might meet.
A stranger, who...
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Categories:
city, night,
Form: Rhyme
City TreesThey do not know I name them—
the trees blackened by exhaust,
asthmatic, stoic gods lining
pedestrian bridges that never forget.
Each leaf is a reluctant confessor.
Each trunk remembers
how I once pressed my palm and thought:
You too are surviving this.
I walk past ads that scream at no one.
Past lovers who will never call again.
Even the sky here has bills...
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Categories:
city, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
LamentationI feel maybe I hadn't chosen
My dream of studying abroad
with lots of sacrifices and restless body
I still end up being miserable
Abroad makes you thirsty for money
Where you quench it by slowly
Killing your health and body
Is it possible to go back ?
My heart always plead me
I smile gently and...
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Categories:
city, 3rd grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Wake Up Call - After Nickel Cityi miss duff’s wings and maroon soda
i miss the beach lakes
i miss the rain where they sang to Iris.
i miss joking with you most of all.
no one else laughs when i quote dumb movies
or make that face you hated.
i mean, loved.
let’s call it loved.
i didn’t believe joni
too floaty.
too “poet in a canyon.”
but yeah,
turns out throwaway...
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Categories:
city, home,
Form: Free verse
Dust Devils
The hegemony of height
gets too much.
The city robs me of the horizon
and hides it behind towering
cathedrals of concrete and glass.
Even trees conspire to fill
the gaps and extend their
leafy reach to obscure the sky.
I long for uninterrupted distance,
horizontal vistas of the open sea
and the flat, unfenced expanses
of the inland with its views
to infinity....
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Categories:
city, freedom, prayer, space,
Form: Free verse
Before the City Dawns(A subaltern dawn song...)
We rise before the rooster cries,
Before the sky begins to blush,
Before the bosses sip their tea,
We sweep the silence with a hush.
The city sleeps in dreams of glass,
We move like whispers through its veins
With a broom, a bucket and barefoot grace,
Erasing footprints made of stains.
The milkman’s cycle hums its tune,
His bell rings...
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Categories:
absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of City Poems
Definition | What is City in Poetry?
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