Short Urban Poems
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the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break
Tunnel
A mountain the man blasting through it.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 17, 2010
Poetic form: Monoku
buildings
collapse
when
clocks
strike
noon
DUST ECHOES
Teasing me with freedom
Understanding finally dawns
Voyeuristically I hide
Watching myself drift
As I move away from reality
evening appointment
noise over the city's roofs
the crowd of the crows
most curiosities which
completely don't understand
Shivering
in gusts of black ice
night owl stuck
in grim spot
enshrouded by stern dark gauze
yet smothered grit reigns
The boy just lay there
eyes dulled, vacant stare
Needles spread all about
another sprout, its life snuffed out
Rappers represent
Modern day correspondents
In the hip-hop age
Producers present
Orchestrated sound agents
Musical front page
The City makes me work for them.
Time to sort my trash.
And then they tell me "Rinse it off",
they charge the bill for cash.
dark in missouri
large underground city
a subtropolis
I have never been
not fond of caves or the dark
but it still exists
Trees start to blossom
Rising from the city streets
New York battles on
Thousands of eyes look upward
Joy in the metropolis
Forget cocaine
You can sustain,
My daily need;
'Tis not the weed,
That calms my soul,
With your soft voice,
There is no hole.
Trains passing by late at night
depths
Heads home filled with people
Blacks, Hasids and others
(originally published in Poetalk)
there is a man outside
my house
it is dark
and i cannot
see his face
he is masked
or so it seems
the robber
is outside my house
Hate, love, hope
It's all gone
Disgust, dispair, loyalty
All dissappeared
Kisses, hugs, love?
All fake.
Nothing can be repaired.
Form:
Today I dropped words
between cracks in the pavement:
half-written screenplays.
My muse, a cappuccino,
conjures romance while I sip.
Running, breathing, jumping, dodging,
Chasing, huffing, sprinting, spitting,
Quckly thinking, turning, beating,
Running hard, getting tired.
Form:
Cutting through the dark
City lights keep shining on
Each one lights a home
There are millions of stories
Too many for one heart to bear
Lavenders “allure,”
they “lure” bees, butterflies, folk,
toxic air immune,
flower on spike, fragrant vent,
evergreen shrub in svelte perfume
They wasted my time.
I have moved on to bigger
And much better things.
Wrote Fall 2004
while student @ University of Louisiana-Monroe
If I could have....
One flower
I would know
this is the one
to have and to put into motion
beyond words
descriptions
pieces...
Ghetto dreams, ponder
Broke hydrant, cement
Only leaking tears
© Drake J. Eszes
Submitted to Charles Henderson's: "Haiku your way" contest.
High snowbanks surround
Slush puddles frozen on street
Seagull atop pole.
An Haiku from Your Window contest
Carol Fillmore
See Tom
SEE tom run see tom run
See the bus run see tom
See tom run for the bus
See the bus run from tom
Tom is late for work anon
'Scepter and Crown
must tumble down.'
wrote a poet of a long past day.
For want of renewal,
must so many a school
not tumble but crumble away.