Shanghai Poems - Poems about Shanghai

...Storm, hurricane, tempest, tornado, levantera, gale Like shape-shifting werewolves and vampire wells, you whirlpool. With gold, silver, and coal sand screens, the environs you veil Like rounded, s......Read the rest...

...Paris was built gray, though in summer, the trees and the umbrellas upload color. The architecture spills over into gay shades of silver and pewter. Edinburgh is gray, gray are the plastic rain......Read the rest...

...Downtown broad squares highway out of these places every nook and cranny alleyway, shabby signboard, makes a terrifying sound when the wind blows, we open a very narrow door and meet an old ......Read the rest...

...Have anyone of you also received a random telephone call from Shanghai China, not in English but in the Chinese language? I did today but I did not understand the importance of that phone call......Read the rest...

...Stillness of Mind and Mouth Josh in Little Rock, talking. Micah in Oklahoma City, talking. James in Lake Charles, talking. Ailcia in Atlanta, talking. Jennifer in NYC, talking. Bonnie in......Read the rest...

...The sun sank into rusty chains Ancient Mesopotamian constellations begin to spin Shadows in the bushes Sidewalks walking from the back Cetoniinae trapped in glass Your gaze runs through the sky ......Read the rest...

...A black powder 1868 colt revolver. Dad’s rusty Buck knife. A few old Zippo lighters. Ivory figurines haggled over with an illicit trader in Shanghai, same for a two hundred year old silk rug n......Read the rest...

...Friends our Government are setting up a Governance board to censor you, tag you, give you a fine, or put you in jail if you voice an opinion they don't like. They hired Nina Jankowicz to monitor all ......Read the rest...

...Fried Turtles The little dog chews on the blue wire His sharp teeth need blunting So he picked this bomb wire to gnaw He likes biting and such like One of his main interests His master’s finger......Read the rest...

...I belong to an abscondered valley... Where people are squandered by the armed moochers... The whimsical parasites are more bigoted than a malingerer... A false dogma- to Shanghai , to deadlock and......Read the rest...

...There was a carpenter in Shanghai Who hanging from a roof beam so high When he grabbed a nail, He let out a yell Everyone thought he would surely die.......Read the rest...

...Two young newlyweds Samantha and Ray On honeymoon went camping to the Bay But as they were rocking Strong winds came a knocking And left them nude as their tent blew away Both were red faced a......Read the rest...

...The ancient regime I was in Shanghai once during the cultural revolution everyone mostly young people wore the same grey clothes half military cut, not a colour in sight except for the flag. ......Read the rest...

...Gray are the lives that matter, departed poems in a gray post-dated heaven; ‘silvery-gray,’ as the dead are said to say. Paris was built gray; in summer, the trees and the umbrellas upload colo......Read the rest...

...Gentrifier’s pliers pull the heart from the old tart Though a Navy Commander warns crew not to wander Where sailors drank and brawled till ships’ horns called By-the-hour beds and Shanghai Red’s d......Read the rest...