Short Metropolis Poems

Forensic dictates
social trolled lobotomies
Metropolis bound...

Read More

Trees start to blossom 
Rising from the city streets
New York battles on 
Thousands of eyes look upward
Joy in the metropolis...

Read More

Urban sprawl 
The neon-bright skyline 
Towers over
The sleeping city,
Metropolis in full bloom.

         W.A. CHOLT . COPYRIGHT  Fergal O Reilly  2017....

Read More

The monopoly metropolis, o'er the mass.
The sun has set 'pon the great pass.
All for one and none for all, 
the old grey miser throws a ball;
...no peasants allowed....

Read More

This is for John John but you may read it as well
Boise isn't a thriving metropolis but it's famous as hell
For a certain poet friend
Over backward I'd bend
For this fine gentleman, from the rooftops I yell...

Read More

Metropolis didn't have any more phone booths which wasn't fair,
Clark Kent now having to change out in the open air, 
one day while he was changing,
elderly ladies started fainting,
thinking he was some stripper from Chippendales....

Read More

Slowly go out of the city lights.
Only the bright neon lights blinding,
Merging into a thin, thin thread.
Into the night skyscrapers,
The noise of the city was quiet.
And outside the metropolis draws
Bright scattering on a dark background....

Read More

Flash of red
    on the avenue 
  Streetlights turn from red to green 
   Car stops - money exchanged 
  A short spell of passion 
then the two of them go their separate ways
 Streetlights continue to shine 
This metropolis is full of pain...

Read More

FROSTY   DAY  IN   THE   CITY

Wetless day,  birdless trees,
Witless denizens of metropolis
Long await the bus into
The delights of Manchester.

Townless  bus waiters  -
Their earphones are essential
For Deaf  Man’s Buff  -
Tuneless music....

Read More

MACABRE 

Mayhem like flotsam wood.
Metropolis types out:
Murder. Victim floating -
Marred, strapped to slot machine.
Macabre tourist sight.
Mountains blue, green and RED,
Malice toward fellow man.

2nd Place
4/19/2017
Pleiades Form - M contest...

Read More

Exciting tunes
    of a city
  captured in music
Dance the mental dance
    we have know
         electric  lights appear in 
       our mind
  Shining lights 
Multi colored shining lights
     notes flying
through the air
        yes, we will find joy 
in the heart of the metropolis...

Read More

Flash of red 
    on the avenue
   Streetlights turn from red to green 
    Cars stops  - money exchanged 
   A short bit of passion
then the two of them go their 
    separate ways 
   Streetlights continue to shine forming wavy patterns 
on the ground
   This metropolis is full of pain...

Read More

This is for one, low and old.
Peterborough metropolis.
We have a Waitrose too, Vivacity has the power.
Metropolis genuine life, old and low.
Homeless, give them a Council House, there are enough.
M&S is sceptre special in Queensgate.
We are tired of working, Peterborough relaxes.
Genuine life, unreplaceable....

Read More

Her hair blown in the infernal blast
As the train hurtles pass
hot are the rains rushing past
Falling on an ashen hued metropolis
her form is framed in Furious winds 
lightning, as sight transcends this domain
Her hair fair as raven wings 
Heat ripples in waves of engines thunder
Into this incandescent night....

Read More

Marine metropolis,
manatees moving methodically,
mackerel moseying,
maiden mermaid muses,
many much moxie magical mermen,
magnetic, masculine, mystical,
masters melodious mellow maritime music,
midsummer marvelous, merry,
myself-moonstruck mania minded,
my mission- meeting mesmerizing,
mysterious, mischievous,
magnificent merman!...

Read More

Stars tumble from shattered edges
Charter in the sounds of daybreak
The other side of the planet

Leave this river after a few drinks
A man's teary eyes
Aiming for the bright lights of the metropolis

It can be seen in the distance
The crane let out a screech
Repairing the ripped sky

Written: March 21, 2023...

Read More

Something in the Times 
   today 
       about organizing 
the strippers
   Not a bad thought 
   These 
women 
provide 
a break 
   from the humdrum existence 
of many men 
    in our cold metropolis 
   Who out there in the darkness
remembers Cher's 
"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" 
     Every night the men 
 would come around and..........

Read More

Raining today 
   in the big apple 
  Yes, this metropolis is still here 
Despite the 
    fact 
that 
we 
have 
   been attacked 
Yes, the masses of people 
still long to visit 
this "Baghdad on the Hudson"
as O.Henry named it 
It is not Paris, Tel Aviv or London 
But it is the place 
   I call home 
Personally I think this city 
will survive ,flourish and grow...

Read More

Imagine that 
all the sounds of
the city suddenly 
   become still 
               imagine that the 
entire city's 
population opened 
    their eyes 
to see the reality 
behind the shadows
of the metropolis
      between the sand 
     know that 
  millions of 
other hearts   
    beat to the 
soft drumbeat 
   as thousands move
slowly
    urban tapestry
unravels...

Read More

There survives a burg, strangled by,

A fume as thick as thieves,

Where soaring glass stalagmites screen,

The adroit aggrieved.

Skyscrapers and broad avenues,

Where vast trains shunt and squall,

Where soaring glass stalagmites screen,

The vestige’s caterwaul.

Where night tide is perennial,

The gargoyles chill and ward,

Aged curves and finials resist,

Thick gnarling walls contort....

Read More

As the sun sets upon the asphalt homeland
Stars appear above 
the metropolis 
Weary eyes gaze up in wonder 
as the dots in the vast darkness
They are really suns 
some larger - some smaller 
The stars stimulate urban dreamers 
Starlight illuminates the lovers on the Planer Earth 
A heavy sense of peace 
descends on the city 
Did you not know that 
the universe is sending you its love?...

Read More

He's an urban redneck
Likes his George and Madflex
He's country and what's next
Metropolis with crops

From barn to the city
Farming in the nitty-gritty
He's surrounded by concrete
Too many suburb plots

Sticking to dirt past
Agricultural for the future
He's certain who are unsure
Aware of hidden costs

Plowing his own stake
And modern, make no mistake
He's in tune to the horizon
Up until he drops off...

Read More

On the August of the twelve,
 year eighteen thirty tree,
 Chicago became city.
 First skyscrapers here erected.
 
Railroad, not the canal
 made Chicago metropolis.
 In Chicago controlled first
 done atomic was reaction.
 
Fancy zipper from Chicago
 made the famous fashion show,
 brought convenience to us all.
 
American native name –
 spirit of great Manitu.
 Many nations have here home....

Read More

It is a game of musical chairs
We elect them in pairs
Out with one, in with another
A father replaced by a mother

We vote for the wrong reason
We rotate faces every season
They call it democracy, supreme
Designed to bring in the cream

The metropolis must work
The County, their responsibility must not shirk
No water at home; lights on the blink
An Expressway viaduct at the front gate, they sink...

Read More

I want to be a small town,
But am forced to be a metropolis.

I want to be a garden,
But am forced to be a field.

I want to be the north star,
But am forced to be the moon.

I want to be an eagle,
But am forced to be a flock of vultures.

I want to be a lake,
But am forced to be an ocean.

Either way,
I am beautiful,
And I am strong.

Let me be me.

Don’t force upon me 
What I should be....

Read More