Long Tenements Poems
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One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...
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Categories:
tenements, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The humble cockroach
The humble cockroach -
Survival of one wreath speck table insect,
(poll ease pod din me Elmer Fudd speak)
thus earning hardy laurels
nsync with inxs of standing kudos
ranking as bajillion year old species
scientific name: Periplaneta americana
(Linnaeus) Insecta:...
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Categories:
tenements, america, animal, creation, dark, light, nature, spanish,
Form:
Free verse
Love In the Library
Love In The Library
by Edmund Siejka
( East Of Seventh, poems by Edmund Siejka available on Amazon)
He was a scrawny kid
In 1st grade his lunch money
Often disappeared
By the 5th...
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Categories:
tenements, life, , 1st grade,
Form:
Narrative
The Sertraline Queen of New Orleans
The sertraline queen of New Orleans
Getting high on her brandy and coke.
Perched on a bar stool, surveying the scene,
While she lights up another smoke.
Tom Waits is playing on the radio
“In the neighbourhood”, plodding and...
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Categories:
tenements, abuse, addiction, conflict, depression, freedom, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
Babylon Ii
,The earth was dying,one of seven billion speak,
Build it up,increase the images,eternity for all,recall,
Kia galaxy rooks,Endyminion attend,his plan circumvend,
Suddenly born like fire,behold the man,damned,
New Universe of dark,light and dream,the greater scheme,
An afterlife of ankh,the new...
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Categories:
tenements, bible, universe, , western,
Form:
Blank verse
East Village Fugue
Some have passion and
Dreams in their hearts
That weave in and out
Beyond the edges
Of small places
Their dreams may be only words to some
But to them they mean everything.
And others,
Just as young,
Run off
With no plans
No...
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Categories:
tenements, lifeold, old, , Lullaby,
Form:
Narrative
Chicago Land- In the Belly of the Beast
Chicago Land- In the Belly of the Beast
Chicago Land, in the belly of the beast, shots are fired, bodies crumble up; welcome to the land of the dead and the soon departed. Automatic bursts of...
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Categories:
tenements, chicago, city, culture, death, murder, poems,
Form:
Verse
Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
JUSTICE
They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children clinging, dazed and frightened,
their paltry belongings tied in scarves.
They...
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Categories:
tenements, anger, angst, feelings, humanity, political,
Form:
Free verse
The Shape of Death
3/2/03
I saw no way- The heavens were stitched
I felt the columns close
The earth reversed her hemispheres
I touched the Universe
378: Emily Dickenson
The Shape of Death
Because I could see through all the eyes of men,
Pandora's...
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Categories:
tenements, death, meaningful, mother, mystery, tribute, universe,
Form:
Verse
Grumpy Old Man
Love comes in all
shapes and sizes – Thank God!
Myself having evolved in some
rather, undesirable directions...
But what is the same anymore?
Environmentalists say, not the sky!
Not the seas! (Seagulls flying off
with bees to who knows where?)
As...
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Categories:
tenements, analogy, corruption, introspection, leadership, perspective, political, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Pebbled Stream
Rocks and streams from pebbled ruins,
Makes my feet moan and groan.
Water rushing,
Never flushing the dirt from years gone past!
Hurts my toes as I meander by.
...
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Categories:
tenements, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, howl,
Form:
Free verse
Second Half of Second Caution
I’ve been to tenements, town houses, towers and mansions
And there are people in each doing what I’ve thus far described as a mission
Sans commission
Walk through a neighborhood that ain’t so good
As you convince yourself you...
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Categories:
tenements, urbanme, people, day, me, people,
Form:
Narrative
Smelt Spelt
Smelt Spelt
Smelt Spelt
Smelt Spelt
Taciturn brown blackened smelt under wrapped green elephant ears laying in a
pool of fluid leaked on a bed of brown crusty spelt in points of poverty in the...
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Categories:
tenements, food, friendship, happiness, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Childhood In New York
Childhood in New York
Childhood in New York
Pocket change dangling from open pockets
candy stores soda fountains five and dimes
root beer floats licorice sticks baseball cards
and chewing gum
stick ball bats against...
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Categories:
tenements, america, city, culture,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Xxxvii and Xxxviii
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XXXVII - XXXVIII
XXXVII
If ever I had a country
And if ever by some magic I were the Minister of Housing Development
I'd make it my life-long mission by swearing upon...
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Categories:
tenements, anti bullying, corruption, house, natural disasters, sleep,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sunshine
Her nickname "'sunshine" where she worked,
She's always smiling, some confide.
She has a certain lilting perk
Of hidden beauty deep inside.
Her journey home was twenty miles
Of mostly dark, forbidding streets,
Of tenements and...
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Categories:
tenements, angst, assonance, conflict, corruption, culture, dark, dog,
Form:
Verse
Street Garden
Ever pass a street garden
On the lower East Side
You know the kind
Long and narrow
Squeezed between two tenements
Ever wonder how it came to be
Who made it?
Where did it come from?
Odds and ends
And garden tools clutter...
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Categories:
tenements, life, garden,
Form:
Narrative
Up But Down -Part1
Up,but Down…Part-1
This bus old as this rutted road
Panting to haul its sweaty load
Moves along the steep gradient
Of these hills stoutly determined
Raising to heights which although small
Are far like aeons beyond recall
To the place men...
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Categories:
tenements, nature, old, old,
Form:
Narrative
Confederate Private
Hauteur brigand bound for gratuitous strand
Knows not he is country's chattel, enemy's contraband
As gallant marauders o'er ages spanned
His quest for glory fate will countermand
Gleeful lad starting out on quick, definitive errand
Becoming grizzled veteran in war...
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Categories:
tenements, adventure, confusion, war, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Friendly Duels – V
Is friendship like a funeral
Where cold frenzies are played out
Among friends of the darling years?
Neighbours protect themselves
In solid caves of ancient discord
Where offsprings are bred & armed
With deadly weapons of...
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Categories:
tenements, visionarylove,
Form:
I do not know?
The Break
They sat so low and beneath the troubled sky.
With a mind in gray, amongst the southern clouds.
There was no light or loves to be found.
Only a shadowed silence that covered their haze.
And a persistent phase...
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Categories:
tenements, depression, mental health, mental illness, rain, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Glesca Weans
Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat
Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass
Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot,
Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure
Thrown oot by the families in the closes.
Fur...
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Categories:
tenements, character, childhood, children, clothes, father, fear,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Even Slums Have Parks
I walked as a grey kid
lost in his own hometown streets.
When my slow mind
began to see more clearly
it saw brick dusted air
and a sunlight blotched with yesterday's scabs.
There were small parks in that part of...
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Categories:
tenements, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
High Rise Legends
London growls under the tread
of diesel driven dreams.
A stork visits,
an attic full of discarded toys.
White mice sleep in pajamas,
made of childish nightmares.
Barges reek still, just as when,
sweat was as common as dirt.
A window in Baker...
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Categories:
tenements, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Unheard Voices
After a cacophony of ramblings,
day bows gently---
Infants slumber with ease in cradles,
lanterns flicker above tavern stools
as mellow winds drift around gold-hued roads
paving the way
for flights of quietude:
Somehow, mothers hush their loved ones
to...
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Categories:
tenements, feelings, voice,
Form:
Dramatic Verse