Short Metropolitan Poems

Unfamiliar flag,
It's up and down
Today I saw it
Weeping on its knees.
Murmuring students
Hold tears, someone
Else is dead again
The university mourns.
Death, why in our abundance
Is your harvest so rich?...

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Times Square
Intersects the television screen.
At the crescendo of the scene
A starlet sings a melancholy song,
Hiding in a costume that disguises
The method she employs
To hypnotize the audience.






Copyright © 1997-2018 by Benjamin Toney.  All rights reserved....

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Rusty rotten dirty domes,
Wound the Heaven’s azure heart,
Chimneys’ souls rise to part,
Black giants’ filthy foams.

Metal hooting centipedes,
Pierce the hills’ rocky chest.
Shaking the jungles’ breast,
Roaring saw on trunk feeds.

Life’s teasing irony,
Knife to cut on the barks
Save trees in the parks!
Man’s mocking destiny......

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Oh!  Omaha what with your Woodman Tower 
Not covered what it's higher First National Bank 
As the mighty Mo!
Missouri River separates Nebraska and Iowa
Two strong mighty buildings that towers
That touch just below the clouds floor
Oh! Nebraska's biggest metropolitan City


12/13/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Jennifer
Genuine, artistic and talented genius
Daughter of Dennis and Shirley
Lover of creativity, globetrotting and big dreams
Who feels the world is her oyster
Who fears breaking promises and not making deadlines
Who would like to see the end of poverty on earth
Resident of metropolitan Montreal, Canada
Wicks



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on February 25, 2021...

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TERM LIFE INSURANCE JESUS CHRIST

You are of the tribe of Judah
If you wanna whole life insurance
A whole term life insurance
No need for
TRAVELERS, 
MUTURAL OF OMAHA
METROPOLITAN
COLONIAL
NEW YORK LIFE
Try, JUST renounce your sins be born again...
Try! Jesus
Jesus Christ

(IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PHYSICAL DEATH BOUT THE POSSIBLE SPIRITURAL ONE)

1/21/18
By James Edward Lee Sr....

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Fantasy in a red gown
Face as beautiful as dawn
Figure to make men weep 
Filling the Met with my voice
Feeling the music soar
Finding high C with ease
Flowing, soaring, caressing
Fascinating the audience
Fabulous final aria              
Footlights up, flowers, curtain calls

          Oh..to sing at the Metropolitan Opera


For the Fantasy Character contest......

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dry white snow rasps the asphalt
attempting to reclaim the purity
of a metropolitan morning

coating the concrete pillars
brushing with tender touches
the grates and allies

dusting the bottom lands
of bordering belted swamps
with leggy aplomb

the icy shavings take flight
on the whoosh of winter
in hushed whispers they move on


First Published by The Tishman Review January 2015...

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I visited the Met* today
And came to this conclusion –
My spirits were revived as if
I’d had a blood transfusion.

For two long years I’ve stayed away
And all of my seclusion
Has weighed me down and filled me with
The sadness of exclusion.

But walking through the galleries,
Enjoying my inclusion,
I feel prepared to join the world
And shed my disillusion.

*Metropolitan Museum of Art...

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I don’t know why crowd cover this,
Atmosphere full of air pollution
River full of chemist contamination 
I don’t know why seedy cover this.

There are buildings stand sturdy
As the inner of economic
As the base of legality
As the nodal of metropolitan cosmic

But slumber still mushrooming
They have and they haven’t contrast
Too hard they are still humming
Scavenged in every time on trust...

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Fantasy in a red gown
Face as beautiful as dawn
Figure to make men weep 
Filling the Met with my voice
Feeling the music soar
Finding high C with ease
Flowing, soaring, caressing
Fascinating the audience
Fabulous final aria              
Footlights up, flowers, curtain calls

          Oh..to sing at the Metropolitan Opera


For Christie’s Fantasy contest
Unfortunately, I can’t sing a note....

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Sunlight pours through
my window
    It's time for
the show to begin!
Trucks, cars, people
        The   
        City 
        Awakens
  Now we'll taste joy
In the knowledge that we're 
part of the Metropolitan machine
 We'll finish putting up buildings, churches,synagogues, parks 
and museums and the
       the beat-beat-beat of the asphalt homeland
begins to pound
          Such,such are the urban joys...

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sean hoare,
the first journalist to blow the whistle on
andy coulson at News of the World 
for being fully of aware of the
phone hacking which was going on at the time
was found 
dead
yesterday morning.

i wonder if the cops who found him 
are the same that worked under the former
commissioner of the metropolitan police only 
a couple of days ago,
prior to his resignation. 

nahhhhhhhh, 
it’s just a coinkydink....

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Sunlight pours through 
my window 
   It's time for 
the show to begin
Trucks, cars, pedestrians
            The 
            city 
            awakens
Now we'll taste joy 
In the knowledge that we're 
part of the metropolitan machine
We'll finish putting up buildings, churches, synagogues, parks
and museums as the beat - beat - beat- of the asphalt homeland 
begins to pound out ists music
  Such, such are the urban joys...

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Memory of Liberty

  Ballroom entanglements of crush induce dancers,
  Flouncing hem of skirt of my lady the Royal Queen,
  Wavy as ocean, swiveling and sweeping in spiraling
  concerto,
  The sea of floating headgears bobbing up at the simms,
  Footfalls on the parade paved hill tarmac of many
  destinies,
  Lives held in captivities in the jaws of colonial
  metropolitan,
  Imploding, searchlight to conquer the fun-fare frontiers,...

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Fog rests on the city,
like a cold sweaty hand,
hiding intent, as yet unclear,
aloft  look down and pity.

Urban mesh, wet and cold,
conceals in dim places,
it’s secrets, entombed in the night,
stories as yet untold.

Metropolitan petri dish,
cultured over millennium,
wood, stone,concrete, glass,
armour plating natures wish.

Aloft look down and pity,
history secures continuum,
until one story yet untold,
nature reclaims the city....

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I heard this City is Singing 
By individual voices and tones 
Each is Singing free by willing 
And interwoven into a holy symphony
 
People sing by making different sounds 
The sky sings by pushing the clouds to move
The Wild birds sing their own tunes 
And the sun sings by sharing sweet smiles
 
The wind makes the plants dance 
To sew the voices into a joyous song
I sat in the wooden chair to listen
The harmony the metropolitan plays on...

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As dawn arrives
   I sense the delightful morning sun 
rising over the land 
   A taste of green tea 
and I'm ready to face my day 
    as an ESL writing assistant
The city glows 
     almost super naturally 
and the metropolitan scene 
     comes alive 
As I walk to work 
    I sense the joys of urban life 
the masses of people off to work 
    in this fantastic
creation built with the sweat 
and blood of countless white and blue collar workers...

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Double G, Grace,
(or Leggy),
was the talk of town
and her legs in black-seamed stockings
were put out in ads
in London's parks 

Women thought of these ads
on the Metropolitan
and thought how their legs might lead them
into fancy ways
with certain boyfriends
gathered after dark

How they thanked Leggy!
So Leggy had letters
from all over London
giving lurid details of 
legs' adventures on mattresses
in London playtime larks  





4/23/2015...

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A youth walks down a darkened street 
There's someone there that he should meet 
for a moment under a street light 
Her lips curl into a smile 
His eyes lit up all the while 
The dreams of a million hearts 
Begin to blossom when summer starts
Something has begun this warm night 
As darkness follows after light 
Life is strongly dependent on chance 
So goes the urban dance 
Don't you see the truths in metropolitan night? 
With a little luck I think you might!...

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These terrorists caused another conundrum.
They set off a few bombs in Brussels, Belgium.
Numerous innocent lives were blown away
in that city's airport and metropolitan subway.
This Middle-Eastern group wants to perpetrate fear.
Why would they want to do it in a city like here?
Europeans should safely have their lives to lead.
Terrorists attacks are something they don't need.
The wounds of innocent people continue to bleed.

from a recent news story.
...

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Washington crossed the icy Deleware
In 1776, on a freezing Christmas Eve
In a small boat, rowed by trusted soldiers
The course was changed, so it is believed.

They struck a blow for freedom
And surprised the British troops
The Crossing captured in large scale
By the German Emanuel Leutze

Its grand in size, 24 feet long
You must stop and sit and gaze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This artist's work surely will amaze.

Emanuel Leutze..1816-1869


For Brian's contest....

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