Long Urban sprawl Poems
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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 sprawl, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.
I wander through...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Bundles In the Air
Trucks lined up one behind the other with the little that they have left and the drippings from the fountain piled up on top looking for a suitable place to make the next stop but...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, america, anger, business, community, confusion, destiny, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
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Categories:
urban sprawl, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Coco Tabletop and Grill
walk the urban sprawl,
where skyscrapers pierce the sky
cities bleeding_assoc.
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee,
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter,
within the tumultuous mind —
stares into the landscape, tattered, mined;
flickering neon...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, environment, extended metaphor, humanity, journey, metaphor, smart,
Form:
Free verse
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
Aftermath from this er
Aftermath from this er...
attempt to break thru Hadrian's Wall
while roam'n across cyberspace of urban sprawl
dark shadows spill across
the outer limits of the twilight zone
whereby edge of night
creeps brow of me, a Neanderthal!
Yours...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, absence, age, allegory, analogy, animal, august, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
In the concrete jungle where the city's breath stirs
In the concrete jungle where the city's breath stirs,
Civilized man wanders, a ghost in artificial whispers,
Lost to the wild call of instinct’s embrace,
Trapped in a maze of steel, devoid of nature's grace.
His feet tread on...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Incommodious Em Bare Ass Sing Accident
While out and about
an unexpected over bare ring bout
to defecate arose,
where sphincter asserted clout
and would excrete
despite without doubt...
if closing distance
(to...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, deep,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Homeless On Mulberry Street
As I walked down Mulberry Street, my pack and the shoes on my feet.
I see a nickel, penny a dime an empty bottle of wine.
Fletcher the old drunk, smelling a bit of a skunk still...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, addiction, adventure, crazy, destiny, god, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Concrete Requiem
Written August 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by Vanya Evangeline
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Orpheus in the Underpass,
strummed not strings but a tape untied,
melodies muttering on...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, appreciation, history, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Flirty Room
Here's a romantic epic poem based on your description, in the specified style and poetic devices:
Amidst the urban sprawl of concrete and steel, Where towering skyscrapers cast long shadows real, We find ourselves drawn to...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, anniversary, beach, beautiful, birth, black african american,
Form:
Epic
Lingerie touch
Here's a romantic epic poem based on your description, in the specified style and poetic devices:
Amidst the urban sprawl of concrete and steel, Where towering skyscrapers cast long shadows real, We find ourselves drawn to...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, adventure, beauty, black african american, business, cool,
Form:
Ode
I am a poet - part three
And I embrace the realm of modern poetry,
Wild and free, its spirit flowing through me.
In a world of ever-changing forms and styles,
I navigate currents with versatile wiles.
No longer bound by rigid rhymes and beats,
I explore...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, introspection, poems, poetry, poets, simple, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Heartbroken on the Eaves
Written: July 14, 2025, for a contest sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." Rumi
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Even...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, analogy, break up,
Form:
Rhyme
First Snow
"What neighborhood is this, we are passing?
I ask the New York Yellow Cab driver. "Queens,"
he replies. "I've been a lot of places," I say,
"but I've never been to Queens," where rows
of houses,...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, death, snow,
Form:
Blank verse
Urban Sprawl
Gardens, houses, metaled roads, no tractor and mower
Speed limit grows in reverse, bigger and slower
Brick and concrete slowness teks ower
Sixty, forty, to thirty, where does it stop ?
Down to twenty wi’ houses on top
The infrastructure...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, city, environment, farm, urban,
Form:
Free verse
My Roots Run Deep
My roots run deep & strong here in this place you curse & scorn
I couldn’t think of a better place than here to have been born
you say this is a dead end town, where dreams...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, cowboy-western, introspection, life, nostalgia, people, places, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
A True Poet
A poet worth his salt is one that feels
each vowel he is tossing in the air;
And poetry's the altar where he kneels
to thank the Almighty in a fervent prayer.
He works as hard as fifty slaves...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, devotion, emotions, muse, passion, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Untitled
I'll climb again from my stranded slump
claw the walls of this pit too rise
use my legs that have been absent long
to push over the parapet my eyes
i'll struggle through these war remains
kick bone and blood...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, death, recovery from..., social, life, life,
Form:
Free verse
Why I Loved Cd's Poem Colour of My Heart
Just one of my favourite Carolyn poems.
All of CD’s poems spoke to me, in some way or other.
She was someone extra special, so much did she give in her
Heartfelt poetry, and so specific in right...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Tight Bra Bringing and Started Springing Horn Haiku Sort Of
Trump has been breaking laws
create and cause crime with his claws
prefers premiers and skinny shahs
rile up people with his paws
likes pulling at loose straws
at his hamburger always knaws
likes women who wear...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Wake Up Call
on September 11th of 2001 the Twin Towers did fall
do you think that It was God's wake up call?
In society today where the moral of men have gone completely slack
I pray to my God daily...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, faith, history, inspirational, introspection, life, visionary, god,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Revolution Will Be Televised
drive-by shootings, domestic violence plus total social anarchy
judges on the take, lawyers on the down-low and police brutality
where is the peace? where is the love? why can't we all get along?
they want to take God...
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Categories:
urban sprawl, angst, death, life, political, social, war, people,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue