Beauty New York Poems

We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.

It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild...

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Is it the unrehearsed, instantaneous smile of a child in joy 
As it looks at you and likes the kindly smile in your eyes
That you...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Utterances
Grunts
Tech references aligned with the toetapping movements
Ya
Ya
Ya
Who is the secret gabber she pines to hear more from
Who crinkles the toes
Pasty white except for the summer's...

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The weather gods were smiling
As we five old friends did meet,
Providing us with catch-up hours
To stroll, to schmooze, to eat.

We sat outside for lunch
And had...

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All around I see the cranes
Of buildings growing taller,
Contributing to blocking out the sky,
Which seems much smaller.

They haul supplies, enabling
The placing of the beams
To disrupt...

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There is a young woman I met near Times Square;
She's five-foot-eleven with lovely brown hair.
We were both buying tickets at the kiosk that's there
For a...

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yet it was something else
something we never knew
we'd hear or understand
conceptions with the sorting's
conceived thru togetherness
her beleifs were that dividing hers from mine
would create a...

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Round 1: New York won!
By Brett Somers
Written 10-13-2018

Like a ghost in the shadows
New York
People and places and vaporware faces
New York
Experience of magnitude
To have everything in...

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She glimmers by the darkness of the sea
To welcome those who seek true liberty
This apple of the earth tempts all to see
The truth that nothing...

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the fire an awful splendour in sapphire sky - then the towers were gone...

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Mesmerizing distances circumvent
skyscrapers magnificently manifested
to the utmost degree

Diverse people dance
through escapades delight.
Manhattan Island floats

amidst extreme chaos
beyond a preponderance
of serenity's turbulence

perpetuating dreams galore.
The center of the...

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A subway musician with salsa-like beat
In the sea of commuters, all surging,
Made some do a double-take at such a treat,
While out of the crowd was...

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thunderous waters 
careen with furious force
hydropower host...

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Walking the asphalt of the city. Nothing floats on the air.
. All is quiet, seems dormant. 
Not a scream or any musical stream. 
Bunches of...

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