Neighborhoods Poems - Poems about Neighborhoods

...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity. I grew up among the repetitious homes, isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity, the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome. Repug......Read the rest...

...I dream of lying days long In grass fields full of birdsong So that i might sing Or touch the inside of my being My awakened state these days is fair So why must i stay in it, A society desig......Read the rest...

...It's about time I tell you my story- so jot down notes, and take inventory. I've been there, done it too- I've left my past behind me, and started anew. I've been in relationships, and I've been ......Read the rest...

... There may have been neighborhoods with green lawns, playgrounds, and ballfields a short walk from houses with enough bedrooms for everyone. Houses that stood apart from one another, so owners ......Read the rest...

... Refrain: In these mountains, far from the sea, Where hearts have heard the tales, Screams a lady, she’s wild and free, Her life bears in details. Though we never named this wild lass, S......Read the rest...

...What to do? It's Saturday morning, 09:16, I'm hesitating, I don't know where I'm going. Where? Where should I go? To where? Oh, I have many ideas, I have many. You need it all It is now ......Read the rest...

...Bussing immigrants to high-end neighborhoods makes immigration status worse. After an Ecuadorian women gave Heimlich to a man choking on a Scampi, she was once again bussed elsewhere without a single......Read the rest...

...Oh, you African! Of cocoa skin and black-haired Like your judgments You African! The lamb in the elections Son of the people, wandering in the dying neighborhoods With your sweet and spo......Read the rest...

...To some, vacations mean a beach, With nothing but relaxing. To go to a museum Would be boring, even taxing. But both my husband and myself Prefer to go exploring In cities where we’ve never......Read the rest...

...I'm wearing the blue, yes, proudly, and don't prejudge me and I won't prejudge you. Some nights I sleep swirling in nightmares, seeing the blood of victims, and I still very much care. I grope......Read the rest...

...Here in Gaza, the sunset is spectacular, like a slow celestial release, the sun forfeits its foreboding presence, eclipsed by the arrows of fire, raining down from missiles and drones. Here in G......Read the rest...

...When they knock out hospitals and kill patients overflowing in the hallways, and bomb crowded refugee camps with made in US bombs, and attack refugee convoys without mercy, when they refuse water,......Read the rest...

...DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist "Are you my enemy, if you’re not my friend? Alternative exit without exit should be posted dead end When “Google” tells you turn right......Read the rest...

...you like history here you go, a list of their history in short 740. BC The Assyrians cursed them. 579. BC The Babylonians fell asleep and remained for about 60 years. 70. The Roma......Read the rest...

...Thrice about the cauldron go and answer me, if it be known. Untie the words and give them form, dissect the ingredients of murder’s charm. A new tradition has traction gained, a tradition of......Read the rest...