Short Brooklyn Poems

the Brooklyn Dodgers
a gem for some New Yorkers
and missed by many...

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Good basketball game! 
The Brooklyn team actually won!
I take joy in that...

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a dashing ballpark
in the year 1913
drawn to atmosphere





10/2/2015...

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tired, chain driven trucks 
coal pouring into basements 
ice up five long flights...

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You will get to many new places
Move on
(This poem is a 9 - 1- 1 poem - a new form developed in Brooklyn New York....

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It's said that the poet Shelley
Lived over a Brooklyn Deli
In that abode
He penned his Ode
To Peanut Butter and Jelly...

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George Gerschwin of Brooklyn
was around when jazz did begin
Originally surnamed Gershvitz
in classical genre he now sits...

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White
Winter
Comes with snow—
Traffic’s banished,
As wind plays the Bridge like a theremin.

September 23, 2019...

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Instead of snow, it's rain;
cherry trees have blossomed in Brooklyn,
so did tulips along the bay...
even New Jersey has seen Nature in play!...

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Walt Whitman raised by Quakers in Brooklyn
with typographical poetics did begin
'Leaves of Grass&Song of Myself'
devoted to the US commonwealth...

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once a young man from brooklyn

wanted to try home cookn

for his oven it died

from some rice that he fried

now he's takeout a'look'n.
...

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not
again
will I see
The Brooklyn Bridge
in silence - peacefully adorned with snow

9-20-19
Contest : Make It Five
Sponsor:Joseph May
Sample : #2...

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The fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Once rivaled those of Roy Rogers
But when Trump came on
Those standards were gone
Trigger got stuffed with old codgers...

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The Stats show a Brooklyn Dodger
Scored RBIs with his todger
Then one day at bat
A Foul Ball went splat
And now he's Soprano Codger 


RBI=Runs Batted In...

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John Winston Ono Lennon
From Britain to Brooklyn, decked in denim
Controversial through his peace and political activism
Felled by Mark David Chapman's act of barbarism...

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Brooklyn Bridge

                                     New York and the Boros
                                  
                                           Brooklyn Bridge...

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The moon,
a medicine bottle shaking silt and shadow,
drunk to the bottom by
shifting clouds, thirsty for the
the stilt man stalking
pitch roof Brooklyn
warm night July....

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Soft Cherry Blossoms
Kiss me again and again
Spring’s gentle snowflakes



For Haiku Seasons Contest


First in a series written 4/25/09 in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...

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Who entered a pub for a round?
A rabbi with frog quite renowned
The bar tender, Pat
Asked, “Where did you get that?"
“In Brooklyn!" said the frog, “That's where they're found!"...

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Pee Wee Reese was a diminutive shortstop
For the old Brooklyn Dodgers when I was a tot
With Jackie at second
Both are legends
Heroes of my childhood and a joy to watch...

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I am a poet without fame
A poet without A name
I am only a poet 
Not a Musician 
I create magic with my Pen 
I am just a poet and a Magician!
I am Val Brooklyn Rogers 
Black panther!...

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the tinsel blue of my heart reaching the stars
I prowl the night 
eyes searching for twinkles in a moonless sky
I dream the night
of saharan glory past enwrapping me in a veil of bright...

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I remember in my college days 
I was reading a poster
      My English professor 
came by and said 
    "Do you want to spend your life looking at posters? "
   I was looking for a dance.......

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I spied them up ahead
So I made a bee line
Along with the other bees
My heartbeat
Repeating:
“Lilacs! Lilacs! Lilacs!"



Second in a series written 4/25/09 in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...

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Lights flicker on the laptop
Taking me to starlit nights

An unassuming muted skyline
Helps me recall Brooklyn Bridge at sunset

This cup of tea reminds me
What it's like to be held in love...

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