Beauty Urban Poems

Tonight 

I rediscovered 

Boulevard of Broken 

Dreams on a jaunt through 

Glasgow’s October-lit streets. Rain 

drippin’ off chin. Momentarily wishing 

I was more like I...

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paper lanterns afloat
in a crowded, narrow street
true urban beauty

04/04/2023
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Condors and skyscrapers
Concrete walls and glass walls
Are outstanding landmarks of a city
Blocking the view of the sky and greenery
Cars and heavy traffic
Highways and flyovers
Add to...

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"...I don't know its name"

BUT! 

Someone once said we were slaves to Fashion   
I think they are right we feel sad depressed happy...

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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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Her hair blown in the infernal blast
As the train hurtles pass
hot are the rains rushing past
Falling on an ashen hued metropolis
her form is framed in...

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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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See the girls on the corner 
In tight tanks 
And micro minis
Popping gum
Locking eyes 
Driving boys wild
See the sunlight 
Outline their curls in gold
Memories of...

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it’s 2 am in paris 
and we have locked arms 
as we walk-run
down the rue des rosiers.
the soles of our shoes
smack against 
the eight hundred
year...

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I sidle a hand through the ink-bleeding screen,
My automaton heart now a fistful of glee.
For a flickering vigil in Purity's name,
Lie comatose dour mockery of...

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when industry
stood on this soil
with chimneys that 
spewed sweat and toil
the furnace fires 
relied on mines
through arteries 
of railway lines.

now looking back 
to charcoal skies
through...

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the relentless unbroken light 
breathes in the fathom night
walking darkness one last time
tousled red silk strands ignite 
dying strings for bleaches smite

ruthless emerges the sun
hits...

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Who is this woman?
Who has made a sudden apparition?
Who lilted as she turned to look at me through the silvery haze of the fog,
Her Compelling,...

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The lights at night
have much to say
a different story
than the day

They shine and glisten
here and there
in coolness of
the evening air

The street lamps glow
to light the...

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Fleet me as I'm needed!

Guarantee's are as greedy as I have seen them,

I'm always plenty,

I'm never on-time to my disease-

who am I then in a...

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