Long Urban Poems
Long Urban Poems. Below are the most popular long Urban by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Urban poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
urban, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
urban, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
Pandemic-Climate Recovery Teams
In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.
So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?
In...
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Categories:
urban, community, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Community Health Assurance
Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
urban, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
People of Faith
It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
urban, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
urban, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
urban, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
urban, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
urban, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
The greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
urban, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
urban, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
urban, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Windstorms of Neglect
Dearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.
From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover Eldest, yet perpetually unfulfilled,
AfricanAmerican urban male Thug,
driver of van repurposing...
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Categories:
urban, culture, family, happiness, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Family Therapy
Feminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and...
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Categories:
urban, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS MORE HOME INVASIONS
THIS IS QUITE INTRIGUING TO SAY THE LEAST MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS ARE FIXATED ON BREAKING IN MY HOME FIR SPORT NOW USUALLY RIPPING MEDICAL RECORDS OR JUST TAMPERING WITH MY COMFORT SUPPORT POODLES CUTTING...
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Categories:
urban, allah,
Form:
Lento
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
President...
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Categories:
urban, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Parting Instructions For My Oldest
You did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.
I realize that,
And regret perhaps my own choices
in response to invitations for care-giving
and healthcare-receiving
were...
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Categories:
urban, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity, love, political, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Regarding Health and Education
Dear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
Hysterical Historical Associations,
Social Work Departments of Climate Restorative Therapy,
and Public Health-Wealth Departments:
Did you leave anyone out dear?
Just the...
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Categories:
urban, caregiving, earth, gospel, health, humor, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Seeking Sanctuary
Diaspora Dwellings
On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.
Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better business opportunities
for his healthy future.
Here...
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Categories:
urban, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
urban, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories
The Tyrant
Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.
Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating
LeftBrain too dominant
addictions
to chemical acclimations.
Dad left by death
Tyrant's also addicted
and chronically depressed mother
And his only white racist
twelve year...
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Categories:
urban, bullying, caregiving, education, health, humor, parents, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...
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Categories:
urban, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...
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Categories:
urban, age, health, integrity, relationship, religion, retirement, river,
Form:
Political Verse
Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark
We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...
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Categories:
urban, education,
Form:
Free verse