Long Manhattan Poems
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Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
manhattan, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
manhattan, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Used To Go To This BarRed light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...
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Categories:
manhattan, addiction, beauty, drink, religion, society, solitude,
Form:
Prose
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
manhattan, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
OrpheusSlang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...
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Categories:
manhattan, humor, mothers day, new york, sister, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The ReunionThey came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very first class of a very very private school. Their school,...
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Categories:
manhattan, allusion, death,
Form:
Prose
Legend of the Red October RunDedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...
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Categories:
manhattan, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
manhattan, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
manhattan, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
manhattan, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Market PlaceI have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
manhattan, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
ObsessedObsessed
Hours and hours practising
“Practice makes perfect!”
Others have described Antonio’s playing as perfect.
He has played in spectacular locations. Even before Kings and Queens. One day Carnegie Hall,
the next day the Britannia Panaopticon Music Hall,...
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Categories:
manhattan, appreciation, art, creation, fantasy, music, sensual, woman,
Form:
Narrative
almost showed off(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)
I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).
I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if they’d opened up...
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Categories:
manhattan, home, humor, student, travel, write, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Four Into Eight - the Silva GrailFour of eight decades rest in the past
So fortunate but how long can this last
I’ve romanced, loved and married
Living a life ever so harried
Raising a family, I’ve worked hard
A successful career achieved without fear
I’ve traveled...
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Categories:
manhattan, desire, emotions, passion, sexy, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Narrative
TwistedThey had his life story twisted as he plotted his death in advance
outsmarting his enemies evading cops and *****es
People hated him they wanted him dead
They said that he was good for nothing
Humiliated him showed him...
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Categories:
manhattan, sad, death, care, people, care, death, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Celtic Woman Walk My LoveSiúil a Run (Walk My Love)
Celtic Woman
Walk Beside Me, You’ll Never Walk Alone
Awakening, The Whole of The Moon
Walking the ...
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Categories:
manhattan, music, woman,
Form:
Pantoum
ah, wassailing!We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture...
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Categories:
manhattan, christmas, holiday, humor, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DedicationStan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION
He who that says that he is I am
I am Stan the man
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922,
In Manhattan, New York City,
n the apartment of his Romanian-born...
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Categories:
manhattan, analogy, appreciation, books, community, dedication, farewell, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
What Is LoveWhat Is Love
by Edmund Siejka
My parents argued frequently
So love was an elusive something
Usually found in someone’s else’s home
In high school
A little more sure of myself
I dated my first girlfriend
In...
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Categories:
manhattan, love,
Form:
Narrative
Popping offThis was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history?
We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it...
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Categories:
manhattan, christmas, grandmother, humor, music, political, student, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get
rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday
January thirteenth...
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Categories:
manhattan, age, america, creation, environment, fate, history, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Live and LearnWhen you have finished your work, I have something important to tell you all
Come in closer, closer, I remember walking down 54 street on a cold December in Manhattan
I had just finish with...
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Categories:
manhattan, abuse, allusion, america, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Blank verse
the immediateIt’s monsoon season here in New Haven,
gone, are the banked, fluorescent colors of sunset.
This feeling hit me, like a rogue wave.
“We have to go out tonight,” I announced, to no one in particular.
I think I’d...
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Categories:
manhattan, fun, girlfriend, humor, school, stress, student, write,
Form:
Free verse
Undeserved GenerosityIn his wealthy days, he looked down
on homeless people and disgusted by their
stench, he cried out, " Take a warm bath! "
He kept on walking fixing his black hat
tossed upward by a capricious, wild...
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Categories:
manhattan, career, change, giving, image, love, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Riches To RagsI have heard of it,
I was in it,
I have imagined it,
But I am yet to experience it.
What is this dream?
Who is this dream for?
Is it a dream for the wealthy and the powerful?
The politicians and...
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Categories:
manhattan, courage, devotion, dream, freedom, political, success, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse