Lyric City Poems
These Lyric City poems are examples of City poems about Lyric. These are the best examples of City Lyric poems written by international poets.
Take Some TimeOn the East River’s waterway
looking over the Hudson Bay
Under Brooklyn’s “Welcome” neon sign
passing some time away
Drivers on the B.Q.E.
stuck in the red...
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city, life, relationship, song,
Toss a CoinI wrote this orphan poem to see if the infamous Australian musician Paul Kelley can torn it into a song. Many have tried and...
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Categories:
city, destiny, emotions, feelings,
In the City of Gilded GlamourIn the city of gilded glamour,
slow motion is seen as an outsider;
a slip of tongue is as common as mocking grins!
They turn around and...
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city, culture, emotions, humorous, language,
In the CityIN THE CITY
The city shines
But there's no order
To survive you have
to rub shoulders with robbers
Walk with sinners
Shake hands with burglars
Yet you...
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Categories:
city, cry, day, desire, destiny,
A Jewel's PassingSo no more shall his traitors hate;
For death's veils have made it late
To slight any soul time has called
To dine and wine in the city...
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Categories:
city, appreciation, death, family,
Metal Pitbull ThugMETAL PITBULL THUG
Intro
Metal Pitbull Thug, I’m a metal head rocker/
Metal Pitbull Thug, I got the Metal game locked up/
Verse One
Metal head rocker, I’m a head...
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Categories:
city, cool, crazy, deep,
Spring CityThe bars are all closed and I’ve got a full tank,
So we could idle all night.
I’ll buy us breakfast at the Swamp Pike Diner....
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city, allegory, home,
De-CrystallizationTight-lipped, transparent, and stuck in a mono-TV
Am I alive or dead? I don't feel pleasure nor pain
Numbness is all I can sense under the pretense
"This...
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Categories:
city, dark, depression, integrity,
I'M Alone, But FreeI'm alone but free
down the crowded
streets I run;
it seems to me
that's a comeback
to my childhood
when I reached
the furthest places
of the earth
so smelly and wild.
Heavy...
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Categories:
childhood, city, desire, freedom,
Driving Through the SkyDriving through the sky
Like the Angels we can learn to fly
Breath the world around you
Intoxicating sights
Let the rush of power through
Don't fear the feeling over...
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Categories:
city, angel, dark, earth, inspirational,
Central Park SouthSomeones Grandma on a bench
I passed her everyday
Sharing the crumbs she begged for
With every passing stray
Once I heard her mumble
'Someone killed my Kitty'
I don't want...
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Categories:
city, fate, new york, sad,
Oklahoma City Bombing 25th Anniversary
Oklahoma City Bombing
25th anniversary
9:02
April 19, 1995
April 19, 2020
Written: By Tom Wright
I only hear the silence as I stride,
twixt granite chairs neatly set in rows.
The 168...
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Categories:
city, anniversary, death, forgiveness, grief,
Categories:
city, prayer,
The City Is a GarmentThe City Is a Garment
by Michael R. Burch
A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light,—
the city is a garment stretched so thin
her festive colors...
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city,
Teeny Bopper Gangsta Pop LyricsOom, bumba bumba bumba
Oom, bumba boo
Shoot the police and
Shooby dooby doo.
Oom, bumba bumba bumba
Oom, wumba woo
Shoot out on 42nd
Doo wacka doo....
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Categories:
city, funny, humor, music,