Newark Poems - Poems about Newark

...A friend of mine just called me Since her flight has been delayed, With Newark messing up the plans So many folks have made. I do not live in Jersey So this airport isn’t mine, But it isn’t f......

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...In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones, Where the pavement hums with moans, Where mothers pray with open eyes, And sons are born beneath gray skies— The blood remembers. The land remembers. ......

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...Someone’s dream Maple wood baskets Slick and smooth Decorated with frilly cottons In floral, shaped like ruffled headbands Longaberger basket, making a name for herself Her seven-story building......

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...In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a d......

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...*last winter break* I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic bag over my hea......

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...Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city himself and ha......

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...TRAIN – 1958 On a warm summer evening at North Philadelphia Station the 6:19 on track three, the "Spirit of Saint Louis-Limited" from Penn Station New York, Newark and Trenton bound for Thirt......

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...Interview with The Dead Boy -Raymond Mizsak So Raymond, do you know what happened to you? Why you died? Yeah, I know what happened to me, man, but I don’t remember it happening, Cause I was......

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...I Dont Give A Fig About The Brouhaha... of new year's eve, yet yours truly does consider at least one singular plum me facet by Jeeve er...Robert (or Rabbie) Burns, a profoundly poignant poem, h......

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...I recently wrote a poem, but I was afraid it might upset modern sensibilities. So, to be safe, I sent it to the Feminist Union of Caring and Kindness, the Committee for Using Nuanced Terminology, an......

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...Looking back on those tumultuous summers from nineteen sixty-five through sixty-eight: Recalling Harlem and Newark Detroit and Chicago Watts and even LA-- Young folks have asked me,......

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...At Newark Airport, Christie* tried A quicker way to get inside, Expecting they would let him slide; Alas, though, entrance was denied. The V.I.P. line he’d once used, When cockiness from him j......

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...Nicoletta Nunez announces noon and nightly news Silvia De Silva sends the news at six and seven Nunez is in Newark with De Silva in Seattle Between them both, better bet there is broadcast battle ......

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...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan for David Attoe Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’ Wittgenstein in Zettel laissez pendre la ......

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...…before us ( for Sweet Honey in the Rock ) By ‘bro.zayid’ “We will not bow down to Racism… “We will not bow down to Injustice… “We will not bow down to Exploitation!... “I’m gon’ staaaand......

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