City Poems | Examples of City Poetry

Glass towers stretch like ambitions piercing smog-filtered dreams. Footsteps echo on concrete— rhythms of lives weaving, colliding, dissolving. A stranger’s glance, a child’s laugh slicing through engine growls, a pigeon’s wingbeat overhead— somehow it all matters. The city breathes and we inhale chaos like oxygen....Read the rest...

Samantha was a small-town girl Taught to never ignore or turn her back on anyone She developed a thicker skin in the city Where she had to learn to turn her back and ignore It was not her norm,...Read the rest...

inside of twenty takes dirty filled frames no resolution to me the family that a ugly call me cat purrs on approach welcome spat too literal gotta reclamation eye's cried so much relief brushes is dusty clean practice strokes at the gentleman's table romanticism, adjatate, harpsichords classified and...Read the rest...

I've been in a city In this city They won't let you grow Even when it's your time to flow They're always against your glow Steadily wanna make you slow Always wanna keep you low. People ride against good Then protect...Read the rest...

The light shatters at the edges of the morning, like a tired god losing its face in the fog. The streets sigh under the hurried steps, while the wind shakes forgotten dreams through the corners of buildings. From the...Read the rest...

Verse 1 His coat is torn his shoes are thin The cold cuts deep beneath his skin Little boy coughs small hands that shake Winter's breath is much to hard To hard to take. Verse 2 Sidewalk echoes silent prayers People...Read the rest...

or Down Winding The shoes went up on the line back to the buildings to pick up the news...Read the rest...

Today I went out into the city with my soul turned inside out, like an old coat reversed, And on streets filled with shadows and lights, people looked at me with curious eyes, As if they had...Read the rest...

hints of change in a drink the juice is bad information for reasons are gone when sunshines change and turning grows into my spelling Mom teaches me lies about rules and while i wake up my angels die from the worlds upset about...Read the rest...

We emerged from Grand Central Station, Both ill, alarmed at our situation Like two invaders, erupting forth My twin went south, and I went North I jaywalked reckless nearly hit by a car. Then saw a bridge over the...Read the rest...

butterfights on butterfly'd stopping goodbyes without saying i has a song not in your garden long time you spent washing all the dirts evidence "let miss thang be in control" just as long as she's around "but the old dead tree!" what about it? "it is gonna...Read the rest...

The city's hum, a steel and glass domain, A million faces, whispering my name, Yet none I know, no laughter warm and deep, Just echoing streets where lonely shadows creep. The neon glow, a false and brittle sun, Reflects in...Read the rest...

When the purple turtle visits the supermarket the heels are worn in two. Heaviness and heaving are one and the same. The exact trajectory of a star is never the same as reducing a pile of...Read the rest...

A homeowner’s nightmare Mouses that show no fear All through any house You will find a mouse Living among with a spouse Strength to withstand A Cousin to Mighty Mouse Able to eat through anything Leaving a trail of where he’s been Eventually, Super...Read the rest...

couldn't know where he was at she had this way and your outside if, just the city slept while once become another mucho distrust danced never right he's not here she wont come outside from you wouldn't untied shoes running up to catch the coffee cups saying goodbye...Read the rest...