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High Rise Poems - Poems about High Rise


High Rise Legends
London growls under the tread of diesel driven dreams. A stork visits, an attic full of discarded toys. White mice sleep in pajamas, made of childish nightmares. Barges reek still, just as when, sweat was as common as dirt. A window in Baker Street, opens to let pipe smoke out, it uncoils in the air like a left-handed genie. Meat mongers return to their, gore-soaked cradles before the dawns...

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Categories: high rise, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heavens
Have you ever lived in a tall building? Dawn strikes suddenly and irradiates these glass-walled, high-rise rooms. Lisa showed me how quickly the thick windows - if you press your face against them - go from cold to warm in the morning's stark glare. On the streets below, beneath the horizon, darkness remains as if there were,...

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Categories: high rise, life, places, senses, teen,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member High Rise Tableau
Glow, flood pours the town. Thunder is rumbling. A girl drenched with rain. The friends locked all doors. saddest end, death looms friends restful bedrooms. 3st place win Tableau 2 Poetry Contest Sponsored by Joseph May Photo chosen: 6 Date written: 03/27/2021...

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Categories: high rise, destiny, girl, meaningful, rain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member High Rise
her knowing gaze, no school book to hide my excitement For JCB Burl’s “My most unforgettable moment in High School” Monoku Poetry Contest....

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Categories: high rise, crush,
Form: Monoku
High Rise
Poor folk line the bottom floor While the educated are in the middle Because the rich MUST tip the top So they can condescend to the little Oh, I'm not being judgmental I have been up and I have been down I have been in many positions all around When I decided to stay on the ground ....floor, and struggle no more What is...

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Categories: high rise, education, money, power,
Form: Rhyme



High Rise
Wandering past bungalows Sneaking through high covenant areas Setting servants and dogs barking. I go home Desperation crawls in to the heartlands As dawn crawls in. Bastards! They’ve built towers Everywhere. Down below I will build a house no bigger than myself There will be no roof and no walls I’ll step out into the darkness If you are nearby one day pay me a visit And please,...

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Categories: high rise, angst,
Form: Free verse
Secluded High Rise
secluded high rise picnic with a view rare day off for both of us enjoying each others company because of each other no conversation your head on my shoulder air conditioner at a respectable level no thermostat drama tonight a kem cd playing imagination standstill the back seat is full our minds are completely empty tomorrow we explore tonight we just enjoy this moment of stillness secluded high...

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Categories: high rise, happy, joy, love, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member High Rise
high rise telescopic view from all windows...

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Categories: high rise, imagination,
Form: Haiku

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