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Depression Urban Poems

These Depression Urban poems are examples of Urban poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Urban Depression poems written by international poets.


Cars Traveling On Infinite Planes
Blackened shells gliding through finite shadows,
their engines burning like the dead's desolate fires.
Wheels devour roads, unraveling beneath them,
miles swallowed, expelled into an endless ether.
Time bleeds...

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Categories: urban, allusion, america, anger, art,



drawbacks
there's something there, that draws me in,
like a mosquito to a flame. 
my sorrow blooms, it swells away
so swiftly - keeping me at bay.

i glance...

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Categories: urban, corruption, depression, meaningful, memory,

Lonely cab First Draft
Sitting in the passive seat
No one cares to even greet

Delicious kisses
Holding her hand
Having the best time
I never had
In the back of my cab

Memories never made
Coward...

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Categories: urban, car, city, dark, depression,

Bound
…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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Categories: urban, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst,

Incandescent Night
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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Categories: urban, addiction, age, allegory, allusion,



Suburban Wastes Ii
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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Categories: urban, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,

Dystopia
The book says, people have no face and we have no eyes.
Yet we are expected to drive through.
Irony at its best.
The enemy at our gates,...

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Categories: urban, allegory, angst, anxiety, confusion,

Why Love India Only
state unleashed terror against muslims
such was delhi violence
why love india only?

state leaders burned muslim homes
as communal project
such was delhi violence
why love india only?

state turned into...

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Categories: urban, depression, islamic, murder, patriotic,

Monday's Blue
My eyes are red,
   My mouth is blue;
My body is on the bed,
   But the work is due....

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Categories: day, depression, november, urban,

Stuck
Stuck in the game
while being stuck in my brain
anxiety i battle every day
never seems to go away
mental health is serious i never play
about that situation...

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Categories: urban, anxiety, depression, growth, mental

Poor
POOR 

As we built up the castles 
For the firm that's devoid .
They rank the bloods 
For the richest survive.

We hope our pulses,
Grant ours better...

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Categories: urban, career, cry, depression, emotions,

Sunrise Over Sodom
A steel sky, wan and dull, littered
	With ragged clouds and
		bitter dregs of a world girding for
	Sleep
		But no rest
by day, draws a frame over grim roofs...

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Categories: city, dark, depression, urban,

A Penny For My Thoughts
A penny for my thoughts
I'd be a millionaire
Constantly my thoughts are racing
My mind is everywhere
Should I stay or should i go
Will I win or lose
Can...

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Categories: urban, abuse, childhood, depression, devotion,

Premium Member Bukowski
Was it said before? Sure.
Was it said this way? I doubt it.
Perspective is in no way obscure,
And his works are nothing without it.

His motivation’s observed...

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Categories: urban, abuse, addiction, america, culture,

Myself In Urban Chaos
Here I go again, focused on myself.
Remembering, analyzing,
Memorializing tragedy.
Thinking, endless thinking.
Suicides, death of grandmas, past loves.
Pining about passions and losses.
The condo I had to let...

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Categories: urban, angst, change, city, depression,


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