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Urban Life Poems - Poems about Urban Life

Slice of Urban Life
Crowds in Times Square Tourists blend with locals and hit the theatre district hard Keep moving along with the throng or be trampled by their multitude of...

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Categories: urban life, eve, urban,
Form: Ballad
Shunned
Breaking down in the heart and mind. With all regrets that are truly not kind. Shocked at people are, so painful to see. Abused with hated and ecstasy. Violated and directed with torments Lost of words or comments. Hatred gushing out of life long experience. Reminding yourself to become absence. Coward and scared to even breathe. Like the feeling of knives unsheathe. Sharp but not...

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Categories: urban life, confusion, dark, depression, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Are You Under a Cloud of Suspicion
Are You Under A Cloud Of Suspicion? Do you feel you’re under a “cloud of suspicion?” Despite all of your efforts and “best intentions?” Have others found you “guilty” by a word spoken? And this has left you hurt and your heart “broken?” Perhaps you’ve tried the best way you could. But you often feel misunderstood. You may feel “cast off.” ...

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Categories: urban life, dedication, depression, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Hellbent On Not Becoming Hellbound
They speak boldly of bravery But yet cowardly hide from reality Falsely believing courage to be found in artillery, and respect in a casualty I hope they never have to watch life untimely leave When someone they think fondly of can no longer breath They talk errantly since their life is at ease In another part of town a mother weeps on...

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Categories: urban life, faith, urban, life,
Form: Free verse
Lovely Nights
Lovely days produce lovely nights and the sunset that transitions them; build memories of comfort and embrace The flowers of the field are adorn with complexion and fed by God's grace Like a sunbathe in darkness my skin glows shades of bronze, orange gold, and honey tones I'm entrapped by the wind and the scent of natural pheremones creating a balance of universal laws of...

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Categories: urban life, devotion, faith, family, forgiveness,
Form: Verse



God Brought a Healing To My Troubled Mind
God Brought A Healing To My Troubled Mind… I used to allow many thoughts to enter my mind. There were good and bad ones... Just about every kind. My family thought I was being a “good Christian.” I never did anything that raised “a suspicion.” I went to church every week and did the “Sunday thing.” I had no idea...

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Categories: urban life, brother, daughter, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme
This Life We Have
This Life We Have… This life we have is for a brief moment. On the road to eternity… It’s a “postponement.” This life we have will not be here for long. This world that we live… We don’t belong! This life we live isn’t really yours or mine. It was purchased by Jesus’ blood… HIS love divine! This life we...

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Categories: urban life, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
What If You Lost Everything
"What If... You Lost Everything?" What if your "luck has all run out?" "No one listens" no matter how loud you shout. What if your life has come to "a dead end road." You've lost everything... Even your car's been towed. What if all you have "suddenly disappeared." As the storms of life have “appeared." What if you got on your knees...

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Categories: urban life, confusion, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Here's the Good News
Here's The GOOD NEWS! I get so tired of hearing about “the latest scandal…” It makes me wonder; “how much can this world handle?” It seems like each day, on the news, it speaks of “another killing…” Are these types of things really a part of “living?” There must be more to life than what we hear on the news… More to...

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Categories: urban life, confusion, daughter, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Flatline
.LIL BOI IN DA HOUSE MOMMA LAYIN ON DA COUCH JUS GOT DONE SHOOTIN UP NOW SHES PASSED OUT BOI SAYS MOMMY WAKE UP BUT SHE DOESNT MOVE HE SHAKES HER N SHAKES HER BUT SHE HIGH ON DAT JUICE STILL NO SIGN OF LIFE LIL BOI STOMACH GROWLS BUT DERES NUTTIN TO EAT TONITE LIL BOI WONDERS OFF WHILE MOMMA IS SLEEP SHE LEFT DA DOOR...

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Categories: urban life, death, son, urban, life,
Form: I do not know?
In Our Adversity God Is There
In Our Adversity... HE Is There! There are circumstances in life... I wish I could trade! I can think of both good and bad decisions I have made. This is a most unfortunate situation I find myself in. Is causing a lot of grief and pain deep withini... The guilt I feel I can't "begin to explain." To be honest...

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Categories: urban life, dedication, devotion, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
I Heard Jesus Call My Name
I Heard Jesus Call My Name… I heard Jesus call my name just the other day. I told him. “Not now!” “Just go away!” It was his voice. It was clear and imminent. I was just “too busy”. This was evident! Why should I care? Why should I listen? There’s too many things, I don’t...

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Categories: urban life, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter Sweet
Tears already shot to the heart without bullets or a trigger, What a little world but time to make it bigger. Love isn’t a factor to subtract, Send me a memory but I’ll send it’s change back. Family already broken but a heart that’s still soaking, Drowning in pain but only in the shallow end with no one knowing, A face...

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Categories: urban life, imagination, urban, life, world,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Wrong Place, Wrong Guy
********************** Mario Rocha is an old friend of mine from California who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 7 years. He was stabbed several times while locked up, but left the State Penn. a seasoned poet! This one's for you Super Mario!*************** A child's life evaporated gone in a second's time arrived to a teenage party arrested for a gang...

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Categories: urban life, angst, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Precarious Lives
Public Figures live a life that is filled with angst and paranoia, always wondering where their enemies are, so they experience ambivalence when venturing far, Naysayers often crawl out from the woodworks, taunting and acting like jerks, The perks they get from notoriety is pale in comparison to the anxiety overzealous people bring, A precarious life is what they look forward to, so their...

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Categories: urban life, introspection, life, on work
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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