Lansing Poems - Poems about Lansing

...Jupiter and Venus meld like two canaries Kissing in late February In a black gap Between mountainous sparkling beach hotels As if The planets have privacy in their own city alley Sand in Mi......Read the rest...

...I was in the shotgun seat in 1960 Lansing Michigan headed straight as a harddrive through ghettoizing "Negra Section" hunting down our commercial whitebread heavenly ThriftyAcres Wanna be a ......Read the rest...

...I. The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls Standing on the hot Miami sand At the end Of our rose-colored beach towel Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly Nuh-uh nuh-uh To the lack ......Read the rest...

...A nurse takes time To hang a DNA rainbow strain Of Christmas bulbs Along my gray window ledge He plugged them in Bringing a campfire glow of embers Under my lids And to the shirking corners ......Read the rest...

...Beneath the city the river fishing is good. I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms Wound around the cement underbelly of bridges Devouring the guts of the city’s glamour Dow......Read the rest...

...internal rhyme Lil knows skill without frill; she’s talented, sharp and agile. Lady Lil moves in many grooves and improves with each try. When she sits, she throws fits, but never quits her ral......Read the rest...

...As the sun sets A hot wind like this Does not belong in downtown Lansing But here it is Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans My wife and I We hold down our pouncin......Read the rest...

...Screaming Guillotines I. I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America, And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way, Coming like wild torrents of lapping flames over the asto......Read the rest...

...Clutching The end of my Zebco rod and reel As the cast of tackle is flung Like a small knot of costume jewelry Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River Dragonfly rattling awry The vibrat......Read the rest...

...You may have noticed the Michigan Catholic farmer claiming his First Amendment rights have been infringed to speak his mind about the degenerative nature of same-sex marriage when the nearby East......Read the rest...

...I remember, in the early 60s, our thirty mile drive from our historic family farm, in all White rural Michigan, not counting the Mexican migrant workers which adults made a point of discounting......Read the rest...

...NOT EAST LANSING AGAIN ? For your problem, this is the ideal spot for you Money? Gambling like Vegas? Chancing? Health? Surgery like in Mayo Clinic? Boil Lancing? Relaxation? Want to go da......Read the rest...

...THIS IS HOW LIFE FEELS WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE I have a general philosophical precept Life is in general a bowl of cherries except When someone stabs me in the back who didn’t oughta From a comp......Read the rest...

...KUBLA KHAN IN EAST LANSING Not In East Lansing did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down the green hill east of town Was a savage place! Holy and e......Read the rest...

...PLACES YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME At any rap concert for fun, At home watching a Merv Griffin re-run, Singing bawdy drunken choruses of “There once was a nun”, Under an expensive suntan machin......Read the rest...