Long Manhattan Poems
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Enola Gay
Enola 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 Bar
Red 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 Gift
From 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
Orpheus
Slang..
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
gilded
This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
manhattan, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
The Reunion
They 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 Run
Dedicated 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 Phone
Hold 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
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former born April...
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Categories:
manhattan, age, angst, anniversary, august, conflict, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
Upon 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
3rd wheeling
(A Christmas vacation vignette)
Lisa and I choppered onto Manhattan Island yesterday morning. We’d both felt toasted—so we took naps—and yay! We awoke recharged.
Later that evening, Lisa and I were at the ‘Elsie’ Rooftop Bar, in...
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Categories:
manhattan, boyfriend, christmas, happiness, humor, school, student, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
The Doghouse
when 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 Place
I 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
punked
We’re on October break, which is a 6-day weekend. For the last two weeks, everyone’s been making plans.
“What do you think of Cancún?” Sunny’d asked me.
“The only people going to Mexico are on the cheap...
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Categories:
manhattan, friend, fun, humor, new york, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Obsessed
Obsessed
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
Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea
Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea...,
yielded following resultant fiction,
which arbitrarily selected thread
first popped into my head
considered one among many possible
near infinite concocted scenarios
arose up, thus continue at your own risk
only entertainment ye...
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Categories:
manhattan, absence, america, confusion, humorous, imagination, mystery, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Four Into Eight - the Silva Grail
Four 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
The Night New York Slept
It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposure to unprintable tales of orgies,
And their lights, hidden...
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Categories:
manhattan, city, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Twisted
They 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 Love
Siúil 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 Dedication
Stan 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 Love
What 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