Short City Life Poems

Struggling to swim
In a clogged city drain
Drowning rat...

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No more stars
Bright lights in the street
Gives eyes a hurt....

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Bright lights, busy streets-
Always something going on,
Kids love playground swings....

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Mane Branch

He sat
On the library steps
Reading
Between the lions


John G. Lawless
4/8/2017...

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  Crime's way up, the numbers say ~
                                      though I prefer to live another day...

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Traffic
Pass the field
Then go up 
Then off to go
Then what else
Looking up above
Beautiful dusk
Good night....

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Tunneling
Underground
Smelling
Life
Filtering
City
Grates-
Horn
Cacophony
Plays
Base
Backdrop
In
Temporal
Darkness...

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Towers,
Concrete canyons,
Buzzing crowds, lights ablaze,
Heart's relentless and vibrant pulse,
Urban.

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city
finds busy
wheels rotate on roads.
deals stir like ripples in minds.
since centuries, life rolls on with progression.

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He saw a flower once,
Dandelion – he thinks,
growing in a city sidewalk
near a rock strewn park.

©12/2/2021


BITE SIZE POEM no28 Poetry Contest...

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Huddled Masses 

on a bus
		the closeness of fear
					          traces life’s boundaries.


©11/27/2017

submitted to – 2 or 3 LINE POEM – Poetry Contest...

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Edgy human relations
Waiting for a vacation
Vanishing home recipies
Legally going bankrupt
Stepping on each other's shoes
Growing lifestyle health issues
Addictive net connections


16.5.2020...

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The lights in the city at night are warm and inviting
Harboring seasonal influence through the core of its being
They swarm with a great brilliance of an orange and red glow

Russell Sivey...

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Chasing the Goodlife
Traveling far in packed trains
Wonder why I can’t see sky

Narrow lanes, pigsty
Close my eyes to begging kids
Needy, feeling within me.

CITY LIFE
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date: 2.11.2020...

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City life had stripped me bare
Feeling lost and lonely with no care
The wall of discontent blocked my path
Why did I not see it coming from the start?

From- Hope in the Woods
18.10.2020
‘Rithimus  Divisa 10’ Contest...

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Yearlong, we have waited,
yearning for vacation,
yet like nomads we dwell,
yon from city life, spritzed
yellow frisking through firs,
yielding to swift trail bends,
young, sleeping in bunkbeds.

6-13-2021
Y Plieades...

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City Life


concrete jungle trails
lure predators on the prowl ---
posh picturesque parks

proven hunting grounds
only fools frequent nature ---
green leafy trees shade secrets 


(Sedoka)


11-01-2020...

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How I'll miss city life,
hail taxis day or night,
hazardously they drive,
hope I arrive alive,
hear all the traffic noise,
horns tooting full of scorn,
harsh looks are all around,
hang on your country bound.





2-18-17...

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Too many people
Too many buildings
Not enough grass
Not enough space 
To get away from 
Everyone if needed
I mean look at how far 
You gotta go just to 
Touch fields of grass
Makati is a beautiful place
Cities just aren’t for me....

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City Life

Alley avenues
Bustle in hues of twilight
Music flees through open doors

City rhythms rhyme
Tapping toes - hypnotic beats -
I dance down the sidewalk streets.

11-2-20
Contest: Spinning a Sedoka
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud...

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Populous grand malls
Clamor of vying hawkers
Metros, flyovers, clubs and parks
              
Quickened life style and 
Sophisticated culture  
Fascinate the dream city.

SPIN A SEDOKA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: nette onclaud 
Date: 01-11-2020...

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"VENTURE"


the world says a
man must love a
woman.
that he must love
her more than himself.
that he must be
everything she has
ever sought after.
the world has been
dying since it's creation.
thank the gods,
I am single.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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coral sunset warm
mother's fish curry

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attic
childhood memories dusted

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if petrichor were petaled 
jasmine-scented night 

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broken cistern
wafer-thin heart

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fast city life
smoky haze

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23rd March 2023...

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The others gather in the kitchen
between verses

The cabin in the nature center
shuns city life.

A hummingbird hovers at the window
fluttering my imagination.

I keep secret our conversation
while others make lunch.

I turn to nature, my muse,
when shaping poems....

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City Life busy -
All are running wildly from
morning till night to earn more
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In this whole process 
family, health is neglected 
Is this right way of living?
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Contest Name : SPIN A SEDOKA
Sponsor : Nette onclaud
Date: 11/1/2020 
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