Short Harlem Poems
Short Harlem Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Harlem by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Harlem by length and keyword.
Harlem Globetrotters
most famous trotters
clowns of the court
and best of sport
watching the game
never the same
performers they are
they really gone far
Categories:
harlem, basketball, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
The Globetrotters haven't had enough
Thrilling crowds with their magical stuff
Magic it was
Creating a buzz
A hoop at the bell was sure up to snuff
Categories:
harlem, magic,
Form:
Limerick
Spice
Spanish Harlem
Tequila under sunset
Sweet/salty spice
Margarita
Sin
Tango
Salsa
I dipped my umbrella
Sweaty ambiance
Face flushed
Feel you
Peircing eyes
Desire
I dipped my umbrella
Categories:
harlem, body, culture, desire,
Form:
I do not know?
Iconic, late African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
Dropped "John Mercer" from name; paid his dues...
As one of the leading voices in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poem, "Dream Deferred," deemed his piece de resistance.
Date posted: 07/28/2021
Categories:
harlem, art, celebrity, people, poetry, tribute,
Form:
Clerihew
from Caribbean
queenie harlems queen of crime
ran the neighborhood
dressing to the nines
a civil rights activist
financial wizard
she taunted gangsters
to steal her territory
in newspaper ads
a gang war ensued
forty people were left dead
killer queen escaped
Categories:
harlem, history,
Form:
Senryu
Red x trane
(a black arts movement kwansaba)
by ‘bro.zayid’
Garvey greased Harlem struttin
Baraka bluuuue New Ark floats
Chicago ‘sippi blood thick
Watts fire ibeji badd
Big Eazy polyrhythmic
Dee stroyed broadsided lovin
A red X’d Trane flyin home…
@2015 all rights reserved
Categories:
harlem, inspiration, memory,
Form:
Kwansaba
Mother
your name has you bind,
but is that the reason you are so kind?
not a selfish thought
not a careless feeling
you mother are truely a wonderful being
made of soft spoken words
given to a child not even harlem deserves
blow to blow
you stand up
weakness you never show
mother you truely glow
Categories:
harlem, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Some are born Harlem Mercedes
and cast their shadow wide
Turn the world around
with love and peace
Sapple as a Jamaican Calypso
you rode the island Sun
and gave your generational heart
An Aladdin's legacy of activism
of civil rights with Martin King
and the antithesis of Bush and Trump
Wisdom as cultured Wine
Categories:
harlem, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Variations in c note
On the scales arising nocturn
Bellows swing tapping onto Harlem
All rights reserved
A.Camacho jr.
1996-2015
Categories:
harlem, cool, dance, music, new york,
Form:
Haiku
Me and my wife went to Harlem, New York
We were stand-outs, and I looked like a dork
An angry man with a knife
Came up to me and my wife
And he said... "do you know where to find me a fork"
Sweating and shaking, I said, "I don't know...
But if you want, I'll find one, let me go"
He said. "okay, see you soon"
I said, "I'll see you in June...
Hold my wife, on my way...to Idaho"
State Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsor Kevin Shaw
7--16-2019
Categories:
harlem, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Looking back on those tumultuous summers
from nineteen sixty-five through sixty-eight:
Recalling
Harlem and Newark
Detroit and Chicago
Watts and even LA--
Young folks have asked me, Could JFK have saved the day?
Here is my answer
Don't know if it's right
After all I'm an outsider, I'm white
Yet it seems to me...
LBJ's civil rights legislation
somehow, one way or another
failed miserably in its implementation
~ igniting 'uncivil riots' conflagrations.
Categories:
harlem, chicago, conflict, new york, race, rights, summer,
Form:
Rhyme