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My EnvironsMy environs, filled with sirens,
Rarely seems serene.
Add some snow plows to the mix
And picture what I mean.
Yes, it’s gritty in the city
But, in years gone by,
There was vibrancy as well,
A permanent supply.
Now the flavor I’d...
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Categories:
city, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Crooklyn
Brooklyn, New York is my hometown,
There's always something going down.
So many different places, Religions, and races,
Walking so fast you'll only get a glimpse of their faces.
A huge melting pot located in the County of Kings,
Where...
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Categories:
new york, appreciation, childhood, city, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Voorhies AvenueI dream of a time when it was raining.
skies draped in sheets of nighttime
I'm hiding...
barefoot I feel the sensation
of the chills sent up my spine
by the cold windowsill.
the lights on the streets blurred
the pavement glimmered
what...
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Categories:
childhood, happy, new york,
Form: Free verse
Watching The NewsGlued to the TV
Can't stop surfing news channels
Want to know it all
Nothing on TV
Can hold my attention like
MSNBC
CNN has me
Mesmerized with interviews
Larry King is 'King'
But it's all fake news
My apologies to King
He does tell the...
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Categories:
new york, age, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Underground New YorkersWe come out in full force after the oldies die in their beds
Some are wearing dog collars with spikes, and leather chaps
We crawl out of our day jobs, dragging our electric guitars
The gyrating and strobe...
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Categories:
new york,
Form: Free verse
Manhattan Manahatta MemoriesUpon asking a lone Lenape
what happened to their tribal home;
so soulful that he barely told me
the tragic tale of how it had gone.
The white man thought he coyly took it
a thing that he can't ever...
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Categories:
new york, earth, lost, memory, native
Form: Rhyme
A Year Of StruggleAny tourist visiting the Big Apple
has noticed a big change in attitude;
everyone rushes by looking sad and acting rude,
" Our city has gone through a year of struggle!"
All cafes are shutting down, my City Cafe'...
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Categories:
new york, appreciation, celebrity, city, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Film ShootThere’s a movie shoot in my neighborhood
And lots of signs announce
That all parked cars for 4 blocks ‘round
Must move or police will pounce.
By 3 p.m. the vehicles
Still there could then be towed,
Plus fined for violation...
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Categories:
car, film, new york,
Form: Rhyme
The Wilderness Is Always BeautifulThe wilderness is always beautiful,
whenever one stumbles upon it
and everywhere one looks, it's blissful
to spend an entire afternoon exploring it!
Sit by that small pond loved by skylarks and observe frogs
leaping while a golden...
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Categories:
new york, books, inspirational, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
WHAT I HAVE KICKED OFF MY BUCKET LIST
WHAT I’VE KICKED OFF MY BUCKET LIST.
Kicked off to do’s before I knew,
the term called,” Bucket List.”.
What we teens termed, “chasing our star”
”our dream” or … our heart’s “wish.”
With twenty -five bucks chased dream,...
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Categories:
new york, adventure, blessing, courage, new
Form: Rhyme
My Long Ago Long IslandThe mournful gray year before,
our young handsome President,
taken from us, the American people,
next year, Massapequa, 1964,
crew cut teenage boys in Eisenhower
jackets, their freckled faces of youth,
our barn red modest home
on Cedar Street,
summer recreation...
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Categories:
new york, age, dream, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud in New York HarborWhen did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards
Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten?
You have heard me say it often since begotten
That which makes America greatest is her diversity.
As a child, I learned some...
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Categories:
new york, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Covid Workersto sail your tiny vessel, upon such giant seas
when every wind or frothy spray
may bring you to your knees
with kin to cunning and
the courage of a lion
we applaud you
everyday
for even
tryin’
...
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Categories:
new york, appreciation, career, community, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Miss Manners TiersWhen Jan and Ilene did New York
Their lunch was disturbed by a fork
Left hand or right?
Wait! What a fright!
Its Trump's New York! Quick! Sniff the cork!...
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Categories:
new york,
Form: Limerick
Better together(I know we're) Better together
She said:“it’s cold in New York City”,
and… she’s been thinking of me,
I said: I thank you for your thoughts,
but… why don’t you just let me be…
(yeah, let me be)
She...
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Categories:
new york, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, i
Form: Lyric
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