Long Uptown Poems
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Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
uptown, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Chinese SonnetsI
These days I forgive myself everything. After all
I'm alone and unhappy so I give myself a little treat
whenever possible. On summer nights I remember
the good women who loved me but live with their husbands now.
This...
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Categories:
uptown, crazy, friend, grief, kiss, society, women, work,
Form:
Verse
Strawberry SweetSTRAWBERRY SWEET
Strawberry scent
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`
The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...
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Categories:
uptown, love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
Precious TimeMy mother always took the bus. I never understood why. We had a car, but she insisted on taking the bus uptown. I think she did it because father would not let...
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Categories:
uptown, growing up, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
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:
uptown, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Reason Behind the ReasonA reason behind The reason
Off to uptown
I flew for an holiday
In a resturant of
The so called v.i.p
I was as I never realise
Not until too many eyes
On me as the Afro hair
I wear speak more...
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Categories:
uptown, abuse, africa, class, discrimination, freedom, image,
Form:
Epic
Nine Nine-A Peaceful Poetic Starting PointNine nine
A story I needed to find
My credentials were declined
But it was Sunday, I did not mind
Honestly, I tried
Decided, ‘take a ride’
Into the...
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Categories:
uptown, allah, anger, anniversary, history, new york, usa,
Form:
Rhyme
The Girl In the ParkI was waiting at the bus stop, for the number nine to take me uptown,
that’s when I saw her in the park, sitting crossed-legged on the ground.
The sun reflected in her golden hair, her lips...
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Categories:
uptown, poetry,
Form:
Lyric
GazesLeong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (an NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?”
Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.”
Leong...
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Categories:
uptown, clothes, cool, fashion, school, student, teen, write,
Form:
Free verse
She's Just TiredShe’s just tired and scared of walking home alone,
Stepping outside in the dark is among her greatest threats,
Honestly, she is afraid that any day she opens the doors and windows,
might be her last,
A hint of...
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Categories:
uptown, africa, anxiety, girl, inspirational, strength, teenage,
Form:
Free verse
Dawn Forever RisingDawn Forever Rising
It starts
Street lights fade
their tiny soft-winged tenants flee
checkerboard facades change
last night's illumined squares now dark
become but yesterday's portals
some polished
some weather streaked
all reaching to reflect first breath
Steam ascends from the city's vacuum
gratings rattle with...
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Categories:
uptown, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
To the Invisible FriendTo the Invisible Friend
The dredging decades have floated by like drifting clouds in the beckoning western sky.
Hello dead friend of my distant youthful days under these erotic jacaranda blooms.
It is my firm hope that...
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Categories:
uptown, memory, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Dinner For TwoOK another adventure in the mad poet’s life,
This occurred just before I met Jane, my imaginary wife.
Jane’s brother, Glen had set me up with a blind date
He said the girl was a stunner, I could...
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Categories:
uptown, funnyme, people, girl, me, people, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Jones TownUsed to be a happy go around…later shrouded in frowns…?
For many a birth places…what are the shades of their faces…?
A log of many a cases…where are the words of their paces…
Memories of a ghetto…not in...
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Categories:
uptown, memory, , western,
Form:
ABC
A Mothers Memorial Day PrayerDedicated to all those who lost Sons and Daughters to war
It's Memorial Day today
I hear the bands uptown
I'm sure there are many flags
Hung all around
Soon the BBQ will fill the air
Friends...
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Categories:
uptown, holidayday, life, son, god, prayer, day, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Petty ImitationWhere there is a petty imitation
There'll be pests, posters of sensation
Grouping of hesitations
Complaints to order, servings of hallucinations
There'll be soap-box amatory slander
About walking coat-hangers slender
It ain't working girl, it's a waling green guile
By his friend...
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Categories:
uptown, business, life, politicalcry, smile,
Form:
Couplet
The Dichotomy PrayerThe dichotomy prayer
I'm free, my will
So stagnant this standstill
designed by He
Of metaphors and mystery
My mountains of molehills
no carrots yet im gold
So it's said , "only one you".
Talent unused -a crime
Oil...
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Categories:
uptown, christian, dark, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Jazz Vinyl's Pyre(Snaps fingers) Let's talk sonic alchemy, a cauldron bubblin' deep/
Rare groove rising, a phoenix from jazz vinyl's pyre/
Acid Jazz is born, setting the soul on fire/ in London's smoky clubs, back when...
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Categories:
uptown, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Ode' To Janelle's PianoSeems it stood there all the time
her good piano ~ church now closed,
she used to sing her songs in rhyme
made church folks happy, in the rows.
The years went on ~ church once so gay,
for Indians,...
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Categories:
uptown, family, native american, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Insight To Uptown ChroniclesCHANGE by Ian Munywe
upon his visage boasts sweat,industry an upheld virtue.
firm stature is exhibited,hard labour an accepted custom.
a time for toil yearns,wheat and other victuals for the future.
every stride to strive in burning heat,a quest...
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Categories:
uptown, analogy, anniversary, betrayal, family, life, loss, word
Form:
Elegy
I Wrote a Song Last NightI wrote a song last night,
Oh yes I did,
The bittersweet words came to me
As fast as a locomotive train...
About a girl from the wrong side of town,
Shooting up smack to calm her down,
She was...
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Categories:
uptown, abuse, dark, song,
Form:
Lyric
Literary Translation of An Eco PoemIf I, ever again, caress my nostalgia to those dense greeneries, to those forests , out there
Breathe air through my lungs, fresh air
Touch every single tree, the spiral plants, a trivial beauty, unnoticed, unknown
I...
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Categories:
uptown, beauty, longing, miss you,
Form:
Free verse
Spoken WarriorsSpoken warriors, with rhythm words as their sound swords/
A poetry slam where words and body language put the audience in a sweaty heap/
the spectrum of a creative sound off between spoken word poetry rappers and...
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Categories:
uptown, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Free Cee a Dusty Old Hurt RoadA DUSTY OLD HURT ROAD
I was steering my car in an un-alert mode
While driving down an old dirt road
My auto was making clouds out of dust
While I was doing that which I must
My hands grasped...
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Categories:
uptown, angst, me, old, city, me, old,
Form:
Quatrain
We'Re Just BrownGrandma’s brown knuckles crinkled
As she gently peeled the heirloom
Potatoes, discarding the brown-
Skinned strips into the garbage
Bin. She was at home here, alive
And aloud, tastes and scents mingling
In the air like wispy...
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Categories:
uptown, grandmother,
Form:
Sestina