Short Subway Poems

Oh, Budapest
At the subway
Girls so pretty....

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Going with the flow,
Even if it seems so slow,
To subway below....

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Life is a subway,
Sometimes people get on and,
Sometimes they get off....

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Traffic on avenue,
CROWDS flock to subway station,
yellow cabs hustling....

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standing 
on the subway
station
after a long day
worn-out
waiting 
to go home...

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riding the subway 

free graffiti art shows move 

in scenes of fast past...

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 underground breeze
throughout the subway platform
crowd of travelers ...

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I sat at the subway station holding a poem...the guy next to me said..."get a tin can they like the sound"....

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we get on
cell phone
talking  some walking
its a day of play
with so much to say
while rading the
SUBWAY...

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A man carried 
seven plastic bags
onto the subway
with shit in his sweats.

Everyone exited early,
laughing....

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Listen to poem:

running on empty
longing unfulfilled
hearing only echoes
deja vu enthralls
written on tenement halls
subway walls
...

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to some its a game
to some its fame
to some its bail
or ticket in the mail
for bumping and tumper
SUBWAY TRAIN JUMPER...

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Jousting courses -
Knight classes available. 



If you rise above your station,
You'll never catch that subway train....

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this is new
too
 they have very  few
can do what it do
run it self
with just a runnig belt
its a new day
we have a
new subway...

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hot, crowded platform
repulsive subway station
rush of rank damp air 
screeching heralds arrival
beast covered in urban art...

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Trains passing by late at night 
depths
Heads home filled with people
Blacks, Hasids and others
(originally published in Poetalk)...

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when it s rush hours
it like a rain showers
people or like ants
rushing for a dance
some carry lots of stuff
in these 
BIG CITY SUBWAY BUFF...

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Eerie whoosh of subway train
    aught but darkness in my brain

  Let me sleep in starless fright
    come the morn ~ Creation's light...

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• A subway ride home from work
• Such a relieving time
• It's good to know the boss ain't here
• To make you into his mime...

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It goes from Fern Rock
to Pattison Avenue
The Broad Street Subway
That's where Philadelphians
travel southward to the games.
...

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suspect compact
jet pack horseback
subway display
adverse immerse
Nurse Perce worst fear

12/10/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019 ©...

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push and shove
shove and push
keep your mitts
off o' my tush

so what we're packed
like sardines in a tin
don't you know 
there's no butting in...

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I see them everyday,
fellow commuters on the subway.
It's as if they can't wait to put their iPods on.
Before me gathered appear to be ear plugged drones....

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Spare change jangles
in my pocket
makes me lean to one
side*
your music warms the
subway station
I gladly give my
tithe

*New Scientist -
Dec. 1995...

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After twenty years the class bully, Mitch
Still takes my lunch money, without a hitch
Though this is still true
I'll give him his due
He sure makes a great Subway sandwich!...

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