Short Urban Life Poems

Quick, with gliding stride
Adapting to urban life
Coyote survives



Hard to believe..
but there are coyotes in San Francisco...

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Winds are billowing the sails of my ship.
I am sailing back to my home port now.
At last, our vessel can cut through the waves.
I can just see the land off the port bow.
It’s so close, I can smell it on the breeze.
I will return to my waiting woman.
Urban life will put my mind at ease.
It would be so nice to see her again.
This long voyage is coming to an end.
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Once I was rich and now I am poor
This is the reason I am kinda sore
Money I once had and now I do not
Never again will I see my favorite vacation spot
For now I am poor and nothing I own
All of my clothes must be hand sewn 
This is all new to me
For rich I once used to be
People I once owned
And now I am condoned
To a life of pity
A life all to sh itty for me
Never again rich shall I be....

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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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10,000 vacant dwellings
In Manhattan are for rent
Which even a vaccine would prove
Too late to quite prevent.

For people left in droves, their reasons
Obvious and sad – 
No jobs or money to sustain
The lifestyle that they had.

The city, minus all the buzz,
Is lacking in appeal
So all those bare apartments
Don’t seem like the greatest deal.

If even I, a city gal,
With New York blood and mind,
Is questioning the urban life,
Will any lease be signed?...

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Walk Home

In urban life, something is lost
Civilization is a plasticized life
Fashionable term of blindness

Oh, this is a wrong assessment!
We live in a contemporary world!
See lies as truth, and don’t think!

This is the key to modern life!
Drugged and deceived masses
By economic psychology, reined!

They enjoy this life
I am not domesticated
I am not urbanized

Live in nature
Without mass
And walk alone

That’s the life
Love of life
Meet with God
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