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
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
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
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
Categories:
high rise, imagination,
Form: Haiku