Short Chicago Poems
Short Chicago Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Chicago by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Chicago by length and keyword.
Murder
Little Chicago
higher murder rate
Indianapolis...
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Categories:
chicago, america, city, murder,
Form:
Senryu
Casino Site
The ideal casino for playing and winning. My Website...
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Categories:
chicago, child, class,
Form:
Alliteration
Do You
I believe I know,
—do you ?
(Chicago Illinois: July, 1977)...
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Categories:
chicago, proposal,
Form:
Free verse
Now Taking Submissions For a 'Welcome Sign' Signed By a New Mayor
Green means Stop
Red means Go
Welcome to Chicago!...
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Categories:
chicago, corruption, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Home Chicago
Sixteen dead thirty wounded -in a war zone called sweet home Chicago...
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Categories:
change, chicago, violence,
Form:
Monoku
Roads
Roads
Roads of concretes
Roads of tar and mortars takes
Us all around...
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Categories:
10th grade, change, chicago, war, western, winter,
Form:
Haiku
May Day Today
Today is May first
Old not that rush
As of hush and as still of hush,hush!...
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Categories:
anniversary, celebration, chicago, conflict, culture, environment, may,
Form:
Free verse
Night Life
Nights in Chicago
Bright lights glaring in the dark
Staring all night long....
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Categories:
chicago, imagination, life, places, visionary,
Form:
Haiku
A Cow, a Kick, and a Milkmaid
Only a spark…a
lantern glow…but oh, what it
Did to Chicago!
...
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Categories:
chicago, animals, history, natural disasters,
Form:
Senryu
She's Familiar
She's familiar...
ain't that the blues
(Written at Kingston Mines in Chicago)...
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Categories:
chicago, blue,
Form:
Free verse
N O G O D S
First to last
God
Last to first
Queue
No queues of Gods
In queues no God!...
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Categories:
character, chicago, faith, god, how i feel,
Form:
Blank verse
Welcome To Spring In Chicago - January 94 2018
Icy roads and side streets
Cold: possible snow flurry
--Drive slow; Don't hurry!...
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Categories:
chicago, satire, spring,
Form:
Haiku
Guaranteed To Happen In Chicago
Breezy… not humid...
Nary a cloud in the sky...
~ It'll pour later......
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Categories:
chicago, change, rain, sun, weather,
Form:
Haiku
Chicago, 2
Haiku 16
native warriors
the Bowman and the Spearman
by Lake Michigan...
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Categories:
chicago, beautiful, city, hero, native american,
Form:
Haiku
The Burbles
the train feeds burbles to the city
then brings them back home
in a lesser shade of pretty...
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Categories:
chicago, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Note
Why are you in
Hell?
Because I am
Black
No, because you are a
Sinner
Judgement Day...
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Categories:
africa, bible, chicago, drug, jesus, judgement, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams of Green
There's a clear blue sky
Fifty-five degrees the high
~ Climate change Christmas...
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Categories:
change, chicago, christmas, weather,
Form:
Haiku
Chicago, 3
Haiku 17
a lurid sunset
Cloud Gate distorted image
mantis prays for prey...
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Categories:
chicago, city, imagery, sunset,
Form:
Haiku
Chasing the Wind
I spent my life chasing
Justice
Righteousness
Equality
Love
Truth
Only to be
Chasing the wind...
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Categories:
age, anxiety, baptism, bible, chicago, city, cousin,
Form:
Free verse
Chicago 1871
CHICAGO 1871
laughter, music
walk those city planks ~
why set the night on fire?
Kim Rodrigues ©2016...
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Categories:
chicago, fire,
Form:
Questionku
Chicago, 1
Haiku 15
Buckingham Fountain
skyscraper and butterfly
winding Lake Shore Drive...
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Categories:
chicago, butterfly, spring, sunshine,
Form:
Haiku
Dreams of Adulation
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's
Hopes turned into soot
Her dreams of adulation
Metamorphed to detestation...
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Categories:
change, chicago, loss, political, sad,
Form:
Clerihew
Urban Math 101
the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break...
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Categories:
chicago,
Form:
Free verse
With Studs
Once you’ve hit rock bottom,
—you can never be controlled
(Chicago Illinois: Water Tower with Studs Terkel—July, 1977)...
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Categories:
chicago, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Following Them Home
Bars are letting out
Last El to south Chicago
Unrelenting rain
Eyes dripping with pure regret
Screaming steel guitar cries...
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Categories:
chicago, blue, guitar, rain,
Form:
Acrostic