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Empire State Poems - Poems about Empire State

Wide Open Skies
...(Entered for Contest: Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist. Sponsor: Sara Jama. Deadline 8th April 2025) Do you remember, those wide open skies? when we were younger, with wide open eyes the wo......

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Categories: empire state, 10th grade, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
I stand proud with pride
...I stand proud with pride... exuding suave debonair air plus head and shoulders taller (than the empire state building - hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?) since September eleventh two thous......

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Categories: empire state, adventure, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Free verse



Wake me up
...Wake me up, when I’m dead, I want to see New York again And climb into the Empire State Building, I want to see the Metropolitan Museum again See again his archaeological museum. Wake me up, w......

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Categories: empire state, america, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bright Star Rose
... "Bright Star Rose" Bright Star shone on the bright side far beyond the dark side Bright Star let the dark slide between and underneath the cracks burning in the roa......

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Categories: empire state, light, muse, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marx on the Hudson
... They used to call it the Empire State. But the empire isn't doing too great. Democrats in power, big ideas they plan. Too bad for the middle class and the forgotten man. Low-income high rise ......

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Categories: empire state, new york, political,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Ever Sniffed a Dollar Bill
...It's impossible to hum with your nose blocked Don't try it you'll give yourself a hernia About two hundred babies are born every minute Guess there's not much doing in suburbia Dust un......

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Categories: empire state, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Was a Jump, Skip and a Hop
...i ignored their existence, except for one snapshot. i didn’t know you could shop. i was not caught up in the spiral, the velocity, the thunder to the top. where was i? i was a jump, skip and a h......

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Categories: empire state, america, death, remember,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Was Playing Thunderbirds With My Kids and Forgot What Thunderbird 3 Was, So Asked the Lifeguard
...he was unaware wolf which was disappointing never attempt to move or donkey punch the empire state building ten years of planning ten years of shrooms ended with puppets and strings like ca......

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Categories: empire state, 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
1930 To 1939
...I am the empire state Building opens. I am Nazi Germany Invades Poland. I am the 21st amendment Ending prohibition. I am Life magazine's first Addition. I am the Star......

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Categories: empire state, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flavors of Love
...Amazing places The sphinx of Egypt Fort Lauderdale's spirit People's faces Lovers gazes Swear it by merit Taj Mahal flavor Coconut kissings French Riviera Gorgeous banks a beauty......

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Categories: empire state, beauty, city, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leap of Faith
...Stood on the roof of the Empire State Two American men and their new English mate It’s true that a bourbon or two had been had Perhaps that’s what made them all act a bit mad The Englishman, cl......

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Categories: empire state, america, hero, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Astronomical Aggravations
...Two Empire State Buildings fly by Earth Phobos will crash into Earth on Mars Day Careless Martians created our universe in Pluto's lab Pluto walks a tightrope over underestimated solar flares......

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Categories: empire state, dark, humorous, nonsense, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts of the Empire State Building
...They talk about me in Cincinnati and Kalamazoo In Texas, Idaho, Wyoming, Russia and Timbuktu. They like my photos but few travel to New York City. Where the Broadway shows are spectacular and witt......

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Categories: empire state, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Statements
...This world is only flat as I could wish for it to be. All wishes come from hungry hearts as mine. Curves I visit bring a noise of motion. Unexpected joy and wonder found in every moment ......

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Categories: empire state, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's Carl Denham's Fault
... Carl Denham, you have done a dirty deed. You brought that big gorilla to New York out of greed. That "eighth wonder of the world" would make you money. However, what he did certainly was......

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Categories: empire state, animal,
Form: Rhyme

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