Short Cities Poems

Short Cities Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cities by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cities by length and keyword.


Premium Member Urban Math 101

the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break


The Future of Our Cities

“Violence broke out again last night
in Gotham…

“No arrests have been made”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)

Air Pollution In Cities

We should plant more trees
In the cities of the world
Beside the roads
And on the roofs of buildings
To reduce air pollution
Form: Tanka

Holiday Lights

theyer bright
its blinking sight
in cities and town
all around
hiways and biways
that lights up the nights
HOLIDAY LIGHTES

Premium Member Bearded Snow

receding darkness
uncovers
the cities cold
bright sun
on bearded snow


3/16/2015

submitted to TANKA 2 - Poetry contest
Form: Tanka


Xerus

These marmots of South Africa 
Build cities underground.

The youngsters roam around in bands …
But I don’t know how they sound!
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Token

Flight from the cities
excerpts from my hearts of hope
my best memories
keeper of the forever flame
before the ancient Green mile
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Still Fine Wine

ancient Roman roads
faded pathways to greatness
strong hillside grape vines
walled cities slowly crumbling
winemakers craft endures
Form: Tanka

Careing and Shareing

look around
see   homeless on the ground
don't stand frown
theyer cities and towns
don't just be stareing
its
CAREING  AND SHAREING

Freedom Flight

it had to done
and we won
going up high
 around the sky
to cities and towns
plane set down
 at was at night
it was a
FREEDOM FLIGHT

Playing Singing Guitar Man

thyer all around
cities and  town
here  and far
 theyer  the star
some  needs money in hands
put out the can
PLAING SINGING
GUITAR MAN

Premium Member Oil Spill

OIL SPILL

Says car radio
“Oil spill on the Yellowstone”
Why I’m feeling ill
And great cities smoke away
Fat merchants blink at breakfast
Form: Tanka

Natural Disaster

Demolished cities; citizens panic
Liquidation is here; leaders are manic
Casualties increase; hope is diminished
Faith is lost; Life is finished
Form: Quatrain

Eternity

this was built on slavery
the  buildings the roadsthe cities
the films the music the art
the religions the philosophies
all came  from slaves
Form: Ballad

Typhoon Yolanda

So many cities
flattened by angry waves
wind-borne suffering.

[Originally penned as response to someone's poem here, but altered a tiny bit]
© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Charles John Huffam Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens wrote many novels where the plot thickened but one of his best ditties was A Tale of two Cities
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Be Wary

Dark alleyways loom, Within the dreamtime cities; Foreboding horrors; Of which I dare not mention. Beware alleyways of mind.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Broken

.....broken cities
arise from the ashes of
broken families
arise from the ashes of
broken cities
arise from the ashes of
broken families.....

Premium Member Charles Dickens' Best Pickins'

David Copperfield's Great Expectations
  Oliver Twist's Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol
  Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes
Form: Epigram

Wild Flower

The wild flower



the wild 
flower 
loudly
flourishes

but deaf
sober
intoxicated
by cities

we cannot
perceive the
miraculous
rumble

Premium Member Remembrance of 2020

empty streets fading
cities remain mostly closed
drive slowly dying

helpless and upset 
continue life and living
running out of food

5/23/2020
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Holiday Fires and Chestnut

as you shop
on eac block
around cities oor towns
it smoke  makes you jokes
and fires that's 
make the stuff bust
its  HOLIDAY
FIRES AND CHESTNUTS

Our Ruins

we are birds of chaotic cities
our screams are our crowing
we have been in pain forever
our heavy-duty wheel

we are the ruins of the Lost Continent

Premium Member Violence

violence

p l a g u e s 

cities

mayors

a p p o i n t

committees




   October 28, 2020
In a Few Words Contest 
  Sponsor: Joseph May
Form: Verse

World of Homelessniess

whats this
 it has to quit
here there
everywhere
cities town
people laying on the ground
this is not the lords fitniess
its
WORLD OF HOMELESSNIESS

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