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Inner City Poems - Poems about Inner City

Inner City Poems - Examples of all types of poems about inner city to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for inner city.
Anne Girvan's Decree
...At the heart of Marescaux Road’s maroon and gold, Lived a timid girl whose pitted dreams longed to unfold. An inner-city teen with a spirit that gleamed, But in the shadows of self-doubt, her pote......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode



Emergency Circumstances
...Emergency Circumstances A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town A ......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Saddle Your Horse
...Saddle your horse and get ready for the ride; this will be your final day before you take off to the sky, the weather is too dry over here and we have nothing more to share; I have to reserve what I ......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, appreciation, business, celebration, funny
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Graffiti
...I shall declare my presence, don't trample on me or scrub me out no more, I exist.* Graffiti Poetry Contest Edit added after judging to add clarity *Voice of the underclass à la 1980s inner c......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, art,
Form: Other
Premium Member Spider Plant Verse Formerly Bantu
...inner city vacant lot a diamond in the rough 3/23/2023......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, metaphor,
Form: Other



Does Sarah Get Disbarred
...Sarah's time in law lead her to meet DON who is in need of legal counsel.DON indicates to sarah that barteriing all 3 of her hoolleess are what's in order.Sarah ditches the professional attire as DON......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, addiction, lust, men, relationship,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member One Dark Night
...In the city of Chicago; In an inner-city community; My recall reaches back more than 50 years. My best memory says that a 19-year-old college student, very bold and willing to engage, was Unafr......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, dark, evil,
Form: Narrative
Tar Roof Top
...Away with you to tall golden grasses to the sound of a creek running over rocks the babble and gaggle of water sounds Away with you to open spaces where you can breathe To big fields that stretch......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, freedom, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Happy Place
...You named me Charlie when you took me in- a rescue from that inner-city fire. Oh, how forever happy I have been to have a home with all I could desire! I loved our cuddle time- good food to eat......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, appreciation, cat, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Personification
Premium Member 21 Women
...When the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL. However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD. I am a proud bother of 8 sisters; Two of whom are older and 6 are......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, women,
Form: Ode
I Want To Know
...I'm not interested in how, You make a living? I want to know if you have nothing, Are you still giving? I want to know if you dare to dream of meeting Your hearts longing? I want......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Universe of Neighborhoods
...The Universe of Neighborhoods David J Walker At this point All thoughts of the future are laughable As we gather and laugh a lot as affable Senior citizens everyone The glory days are long ......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, age, allegory, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
October Ghosts
...Mud casts no reflections in the nightmarish fog There are ghosts in the corn fields after harvest Resurrecting fear in the hearts of children Masked apparitions, beggars of candy small Me......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, candy, children, halloween, october,
Form: Free verse
Gunplay
...Gunplay The confused inner-city kid Had a gun Another boy didn´t show him respect So., he shot him dead. The gun-boy fled into a park Hid under a bush Shivering in the cold rain. Now he wa......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, anti bullying, confidence, creation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Goodbye Maya Angelou
...Clinton's Inauguration 1993 You were so beautiful, Maya Standing in front of the President and the First Lady I didn’t really understand Your Pulse Of Morning Presidential inauguration p......Read the rest...
Categories: inner city, angel, courage, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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