Syracuse Poems - Poems about Syracuse

...OCTOBER 6, 2022 Fall in the Finger Lakes, a meeting in Canandaigua, a nature reserve visit on West Hill north of Naples, the season at early peak, all the colors including green, the thick, ......Read the rest...

...GUN VIOLENCE BLUES - corrected They built a gun-violence memorial in a god-forsaken corner of my struggling city A collaborative effort of a few academics, a handful of neighbors, a preache......Read the rest...

...GUN VIOLENCE BLUES They built a gun-violence memorial in a god-forsaken corner of my struggling city A collaborative effort of a few academics, a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two, ......Read the rest...

...There was an old dude lived in Syracuse Went naked outdoors without an excuse Got sent off to the looney bin, Joining both his kith and his kin Far as I know, he was never let loose....Read the rest...

...Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams That country wench bewitches your heart? Hell, her most beguiling art’s hiking her dress to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness! Sappho, fragment 57, loose t......Read the rest...

...Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms; hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches; then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fou......Read the rest...

...The mayor of the city of Syracuse Was widely known as a nasty old recluse He absconded with some funds, Along with cloistered nuns And announced that he had a sacred excuse....Read the rest...

...POEM BY BASHO We were quiet now, still breathing deeply from the sexual exertions of our late middle age, guided by the music, gliding toward a landing through the ambient haze of unconditio......Read the rest...

...AT THE WINDOW She had cut her hair and wondered if he liked it “Not a problem” he said acutely aware of her perpetual pattern of cyclical change She was a Cynthian spirit, a sensual soul, a......Read the rest...

...TAKING THE OATH For those who are born again through the Oath of Citizenship at the Onondaga County Courthouse, Syracuse, New York! The morning prayers over the neighbor’s car cold, the ride......Read the rest...

...SYRACUSE DEPARTURE Twelve degrees at seven AM and the weather a sharp bitter force off Lake Ontario The daybreak is luminescent gray, the bright star rising, the cloud cover glowing like the ......Read the rest...

...For a love I would sacrifice my sanity, sleep and whole lifetime dedicated efforts; heartache won in the meantime from cradle to rubout life; you are innocent not to requite ingenious angel.......Read the rest...

...I loosen my belt and remove my shoes So, dear, what's going on in the news They blocked the streets; tore down statues No surprise there; of what were they accused The protestors, nothing......Read the rest...

...Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor! Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler! I implore you......Read the rest...

...Salt City Syracuse, You dwell in Mid State, You are used for testing new products, Rebuild, rebuild where you are, 15th Ward East, Southside of town, 81 came it decimated you, Know home you know......Read the rest...