Adventure Urban Poems

walking the suburbs
breath takes the smell of gardens
unlike the city center

living on suburbs
the stench of the city's smog
oft spoils the mood of dinner
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A nice Freudian Quote: " We are imprisoners in the realm of life,
like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."

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Row, row, the...

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In a dark lens, light reflects… 
   Fast... Glowing!
     In the glass, it shows, darkly our world 
 ...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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…on an Amtrak train.  
Business-class from DC to Trenton. 
It's the work rush.

There is a white man.  
Dark eyes. 
Gray temples…
Southern.  

Loud....

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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IT WAS SUPRISING TO HIM
HE DATED HER FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND
WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE HAD MARRIED
NINE MONTHS BACK, HE STOOD SHOCKED
AND AMAZED.
SHE...

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TISSLER, TISSLER
SHELAYLA SPOKE TO
ASK HER SISTER.
TISSLER IS THE FOOD
STOWBOUGHT?
TISSLER REPLIED, WITH A SPARKLE
IN HER EYE, NO SISTER
IT ISN'T STOWBOUGHT.
SHELAYLA SAID, SCRATCHING HER HEAD
WHERE DID THESE...

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Cruising the hardened streets,
Inhaling the bouquet
Of lively, wicked San Francisco,
Where chicks in heels
Somehow reveal,
An eloquent, famished soul,
Tending to knights,
On shiny pretty nights,
Cloaked in their fabulous
Gaberdine...

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Nothing beats a walking tour
To get to know a city,
To learn about the pretty spots
As well as those quite gritty.

In Dublin, with a guide named...

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Hill street blues, I got the Hillstreet blues;
I got the hill street blues on my mind;
and I haven't got time;
and I ain't got time;
Just ain't...

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In a far mountain area of Leyte
Located in the Pearl of Orient Sea
A South East Asian country

Lies a mysterious tale of Damdam
A wine bottled-size creature
Enormous...

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Slick urban sheen
Motion through shadow and light
Lights pass by
Glowing flight of time

Dark frames the picture
Figures glimpse out of sight
Lights break the dark mass
Speed through the...

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Makati, Philippines

Burg of hue and cry, lustily hairy gridlock of stiff mortals.


10.04.16


For Silent One's contest
"Where I Live One Liner"...

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The tides of the streams of Warri
Have been here with me
Since my wee school days in that town.

The brownish waters I guzzled
While swimming the streams...

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