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New York City Poems - Poems about New York City

New York City Poems - Examples of all types of poems about new york city to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for new york city.
Premium Member Blood Moon
...There is a moon stuck inside the stoplight A still unblinking gaze controlling blood tides Circulatory system like New York City in the seventies The thrashing of my tire fire heart led To the tr......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, allegory, anger, animal, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Earth Is Changing
...The Earth is shaking, The world is quaking, Climate change is taking its toll. New York city, A place so pretty, Now feeling the wrath of Mother Nature's roll. Floods and fires, Hurricanes......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, environment, natural disasters, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black and White
...Contrast of cupcakes decorated with vanilla frosting and Spring flowers. A New York City girl - I say girl, she’s eighty-five, yet she swivels those hips; and her lips are flaming cherub swor......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, birthday, dance, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul's Cry
... Can you hear what I'm hearing? I hear a cry, loud and clear, blowing across the nation from sea to shining sea; from the lowlands and valleys in the east to the highlands and mountains of th......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From A Burglar To A World War One Army Hero
... True story, my uncle was a famous safe cracker Before becoming a soldier in World War One Known to police in New York City for robbery The army wanted his skills against the Huns Empl......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, hero, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Please Do Not Notice Me
...Please do not notice me Harriet said, capeesh? We thought she was humble, but we were wrong. I caught her in the city with a duck on a leash. Garnering all kinds of attention from a city throng. ......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Starry Night
... The starry night the skies bestow upon us earthlings here below gives rise to ever wondrous gaze and sights o’erwhelming to amaze as in the painting by van Gogh, that grand impressionistic......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, appreciation, art, imagination, space,
Form: Rondeau
President Joe Biden VS Texas and the American people Q and A and commentary part two
...Q: How many Americans are currently opposed to Biden's open boarder policies? A: According to Chuck Holton, "70 % of all Americans are against Biden's open boarder policies and......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
... * My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these jewels in space w......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Stella the Weird Designer
...Stella was our neighbor, the weirdest girl on the block. She walked with a confidence that we could not unlock Sketching high fashion since the age of eight or ten We thought she was nuts, even wa......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stella the Weird Designer
...Stella was our neighbor, the weirdest girl on the block. She walked with a confidence that we could not unlock Sketching high fashion since the age of eight or ten We thought she was nuts, even wa......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stella the Weird Designer
...Stella was our neighbor, the weirdest girl on the block. She walked with a confidence that we could not unlock Sketching high fashion since the age of eight or ten We thought she was nuts, even wa......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member weird tourists from Iowa
...Weird tourists from Iowa took readily to New York City Taking photos of the sights, thinking they were witty. Aren’t they cows? Someone asked on Fifth Avenue. One is, the other is a bull, said his......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the symphony
...New York City is like a cobblestone symphony, where jackhammers and footsteps form the rhythmic timpani, sirens and honking taxis, are the cymbals, that provide sudden bursts of energy, traffic’s ......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, emotions, environment, fun, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member wrap, wrap, rap
...Lisa and I wrap and rap for Christmas. Can you imagine the two of us doing that? We’ve got Christmas playlists going Christmas scented candles glowing, and milky hot-chocolate flowing. “Stir......Read the rest...
Categories: new york city, christmas, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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