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Taxicabs Poems - Poems about Taxicabs

St Vincent Calling

...How dare you I thought to the questioner
Out of bounds

The NPR reporter asks Annie Clark aka St. Vincent
Are you, are you, you know ok?
Referencing her latest song Smoking Section
Ok so maybe ...

Categories: taxicabs, art, celebrity, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

More Than a Cellphone

...I’ve left it on rock ledges
  in elevators and bars

Taxicabs, backpacks, 
  motorcycles near and far

It’s laid on the Great Wall,
  as I started to walk away

And fell out of the raft
  i...

Categories: taxicabs, voice,
Form: Rhyme

Early Morning, San Francisco

...The building tops are shrouded
By a thick persistent fog.
The sun, despite his name day,
Must be sleeping like a log.

I watch the darkness lifting
Very slowly, from my perch
Twenty-seven stor...

Categories: taxicabs, city, morning,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A River Called Ebola

...Thathud, boom boom boom 
Thathud, boom boom boom
I listen
As drums beat in Africa
Voices rise above the pounding
Mourning 
Crying out for their lost
For their feverish
Helpless people dying o...

Categories: taxicabs, africa, bereavement, death, education,
Form: Free verse

Passages Here 2

...Sit here and watch
Buzz of bazaar crowd;
Adrenaline rush


Chinatown fragrance
Odd and strange;
Familiar nostalgia 


Old men staring
Blank faces recite;
Long forgotten tales


Age bri...

Categories: taxicabs, irony,
Form: Haiku

Moonstruck

...Late late hours
Moonbeams glimmer;
Magic moments


Sky canopy
Stardust sensations;
Flight of fancy


Joyous rapture
Stars come out to play;
Moonlight sonata


Drizzle trickles
Windy h...

Categories: taxicabs, devotion,
Form: Haiku

Wednesday Haikus

...Evening cascades
Distant bright lights --
Sleepless I write


Bedtime stories
Adult word play;
Curious mind stalking


Wee hours conspire
Sleepy world drifts;
Double espresso


My darling sleeps
Glim...

Categories: taxicabs, change,
Form: Haiku

Mid Summer In New York

...The mercury reached 104 degrees farenheit today 
The masses swelter and it becomes difficult 
evne to walk down the street
Yet the city lives on since New Yorkers always stand tall 
when it comes...

Categories: taxicabs, urbancity,
Form: List

Once Upon a Law

...Once Upon a Law


Long lines at midnight bring cheers
to the cathedrals, immune to forgotten laws.

Circles in the sand, circles in the air, around
and around, laws are thrown against the sky,...

Categories: taxicabs, philosophy
Form: Free verse

Don'T Bother Asking

...The door slammed - they walked out
They had had enough
          Bright beams of sunlight
Made it difficult to see where they were going
             Yellow taxicabs
Hurried by on a busy street
...

Categories: taxicabs, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form: I do not know?