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Hoardings Poems

Croydon Part Deux

...hoardings  of shops on the isle of ridiculousness
the feral pigeons pontificate
the leaking roof of the civic theatre stays
you've seen better days
you've blundered into desperation
bankrupted t...

Categories: hoardings, allegory,
Form: Free verse

A Monument To Air

...Whatever our bodies could have done
If only, there was, little less of poison

The hoardings’ screaming. Loud
Drinking Coke was in. In fashion 

We sprayed aerosols in airs
Filled our bellies ...

Categories: hoardings, nature,
Form: Concrete

A Man Sits On a Train

...A man sits on a train
Waiting or at least hoping for an e-mail
He stares at the laptop that sits atop his lap
With unwavering concentration

As the train pulls out of the city
The morning sky i...

Categories: hoardings, analogy, anxiety, computer, journey,
Form: Free verse

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I Dream of Steam

...The 'tock', 'tock', 'tock' of the station clock, 
the clickety clack of the board. 
Telling the time and destinations 
but no one to cry 'All aboard!'
The 'bang', 'bang', 'bang' of the carriage d...

Categories: hoardings, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Old Delhi

...
a mass of wires criss-crossed the sky
and hung across the road
as car horns - stuck on 'play repeat'
blared out where tourists strode.

there were happy, smiling faces
advertising private car...

Categories: hoardings, holiday, poverty, social, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Cityscape

...Skyscrapers due to migration of folks
From villages and hamlets in strokes
Vehicular pollution due to crowded roads
Daily increasing are cars and mopeds
Gardens and greeneries like oasis
People ...

Categories: hoardings, anger, anxiety, art,
Form: Lyric

Dung Beetle

...A beetle races from its deep hiding
To gather more food for the morning!
Amidst its fields of fruits and bananas,
In the open plains of African savanna.

A tiny black bug, glowing in the sand
I...

Categories: hoardings, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

A Prayer

...O' Lord, leave us not alone, 
For if thou leave us on our own
We shall wander like a cow in the green field
This world is a labyrinth and a maze
And without Your guidance we may drift away 
From...

Categories: hoardings, peace, power, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Taste of Freedom

...Fresh air, the freedom tastes good
from the banal structures and hoardings,
there is a wish that silently visits me now
in the same routes, the same destinations
I have left the defeat aside,
fo...

Categories: hoardings, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Begging

...1.Giving to needy, alms
rest all loan.
2.Though beneficial receiving ill
giving alms virtuous.
3.Upper ever give alms
before uttering poor.
4.Giver is unhappy until 
needful receiver smiles.
...

Categories: hoardings, sympathy,
Form: Couplet

A Piccadilly Dawn

...The vitality of Piccadilly slowly ebbs away until it gets quiet at about three A.M.,
A human figure becomes enigmatic and provokes an interest when it’s empty of them,
Hoardings in the center of the ...

Categories: hoardings, history, dark, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry