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Passport~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
time
traveling
through the
city's
passport
of medieval
colors...
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Categories:
city, color, travel,
Form: Monoku
The forestSoon the forest would reveal its dark secret
and I don't want to be there again to see
instead I'd be walking the world on my own
cuz I already know what's in there
I told myself so many...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Little SquaresEvery building in my view
Has perfect little squares
Of windows lined up neatly
Which I gaze at, unawares.
From where I sit, I cannot see
The curtains, shades or blinds,
The distance meaning if I stare,
Then no one really minds.
And...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Rhyme
TRAVEL GURUUSA busway
East Coast to West Coast
Greyhound Bus vision
Lots of scenery in reason
It took four days
Hour by Hour
Time didn’t sour
That is what I call a vacation getaway
I reclined and was relaxed
No stress nor perplexed
Major cities and...
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Categories:
city, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Nightmare called DementiaThis dreadedness has haunted me since my abrupt traumatic brain injury followed by daytime sleep apnea narcolepsy unable to stay awake all day falling a sleep in doctors office on the bus trains in meetings...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, blessing, city,
Form: Free verse
On The LineI can hardly believe that you are leaving after all the places you have been, I can hardly believe that you are leaving to start a brand new season.
Winter is still hanging around and the...
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Categories:
america, bereavement, business, city,
Form: Narrative
Taipei Firefly SeasonTaipei summer bright
Enhancing the city's night
Flashing firefly light....
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Categories:
city, light, night, seasons,
Form: Haiku
The Ocean DirtThe heat is blazing underneath the earth and the ocean is polluted with plastic, mud and dirt, the sediment in the sea bed has reach the depth and the sea animals that roam the ocean...
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Categories:
beach, business, change, city,
Form: Narrative
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISYOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...
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Categories:
chicago, city, i love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lakeshore drive and Goethe ChicagoWe suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive
facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von
Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk
while waving to the hidden Walter Payton
nooks wandering steel of recycled metal
forming beautiful...
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Categories:
character, chicago, city,
Form: Free verse
That was then, this is nowA brand new day
A brand new you
Thinking of something
I want to do
I visit a place of ages
Where voices speak to me
New voices and voices so
Old the breath they
Ride on is architecture
And old lawns
In...
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Categories:
change, city, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
YETYET
A last stock to complete the set
This broker and I were well-met
A modest return, but better yet
There will be many others I bet
With investment decisions to vet
All with their appetites to whet
Yet now I do...
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Categories:
betrayal, city, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The part of me That Never LivedIt is with tears in my eyes that I write these verses of hope, it is with tears in my eyes I climb the mountain of joy and stands on top of it and...
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Categories:
america, best friend, city,
Form: Narrative
Beneath The AltarThe fruit juice drips momentarily beneath the alter filling the crevices and corner, while the sound of impatient traffic rolls down the street honking horns and disrupting the peace. A strange sound starts rumbling in...
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Categories:
baptism, caregiving, city, community,
Form: Narrative
The Blazing SunThe sun is burning intensely outside, and it is melting the passion inside, the dogs are running around gasping for breath, and throwing their frivolous bodies on the ground.
They are looking for clean drinking water...
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Categories:
beauty, business, celebration, city,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of City Poems
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