Underpass Poems - Poems about Underpass

Concrete Requiem

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Written August 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by Vanya Evangeline

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Orpheus in the Underpass,
strummed not strings but a tape untied, 
melodies mut...

Where Brenda Sleeps

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[verse]
My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long.
Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong.
For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger.
A strange logic, but to reality they...

Street Crows

...Mr. Seagull,
Have you seen Mr. and Mrs. Crow?
Oh my, I'm worried about them, 
Where did they go?
The Ravens' answer,
"They didn’t say, we don't know.
Eviction dispelled them far away, 
and ...

Umbrella

...Umbrella kisses rain 
under a darkly sky 
unknown lovers pecking    
underneath a moonlit 
underpass. The rain 
unites then unravels 
unafraid, they linger.   


April 30,. 2021 
Contest Na...

Hobo Christmas Past

...HOBO  CHRISTMAS PAST
					(Hannibal, Ill., 1960)
	
				Old toothless queen with rheumy eyes, 
				I'm seeing you again, across a smoky fire–  
				near an underpass, hillside grey with weather. ...

Come Home Partner

...I noticed you there lost in all this dreariness 
I'd catered to your morbid since of norm
unable to notice a young mother her hungry family
pleasantly destined to survive a war gone bad

a broke...

Alliteration Always Answers An Allure

...Whimsical wisps of forever fantastical feelings
Pass passionate purple periwinkle pretenses
Uniformed unicorns unleash underpass of Unitarianism 
Alluding alluring angst of alliterative adjectives...

You Stupid Spas All the Things Asarah Has

...let it be spoke
you are a joke
you've got no life
you've got no bloke
you've got no brains
you've got no hope
you've got no humour
you are a user 
and you're useless
with no looks
with no l...

To You, Tainan-I

...In the beginning it was just a smell 
a smell i could not quite make sense of
a smell that the city was, a smell that the people in it were

in the beginning it was just a smell
a smell that dra...

The Underpass

...The Underpass
By Lola 

It was the right place at the wrong time
They had the right words but not the ryhme
They lay trojans in each others broken minds
There was evidence of passion without th...

Out of Quietus

...No ... there would be no happy end to this story ...

No shining horizon or shimmering visions of tomorrow,
No joyous rhapsody of angels to greet us at the end of THIS tunnel.
The Big Apple w...

A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1

...The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...

As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly th...

Haiku Maze 17

...Songbird acapella
Early morning hymn;
Balcony recital

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Blurry haze
Burnt ash off-odours;
Surabaya harvest

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Bridge underpass
Homeless man dozes;
Happy dreams l...

Cut-Price Poetry

...Why am I drawn
to this scowling girl
selling her poems
in a Shinjuku underpass?

Every Tuesday she is here,
next to a Nikon ad,
threatening commuters
with her cyclostyled angst.

Busy peopl...

A Coyote's Howl

...A Coyote's Howl
 They lurk in the grass through the field on a hill
 Traveling through hedges of bark & Elm 
 One look at the moon the coyote's howl
 Pull back the covers from my brain
 Shattere...

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