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Family Urban Poems

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


Jack 58
Surviving with little money
Life really isn’t funny
Raining even when it’s sunny

Don’t wanna run this rat race
No chance of keeping up pace
Falling on my flat face

But...

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Categories: urban, community, conflict, emotions, environment,



Premium Member Neighbours
siu mei aromas
waft up through open windows
community news...

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Categories: family, food, urban,

Of Some Mad American Empire Iii
We sit in our idle houses
plugged-in to the world wide web 
of digital madness and make-believe. 

We text tweet posts from on far and shadow...

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Categories: urban, abortion, abuse, age, allegory,

Premium Member Urban Math 101
the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break...

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Categories: urban, chicago,

Patience
patience! 
a virtue 
of souls 
young and old 

patience!
personified.....
what a sight to behold...

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© Jp Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: urban, cheer up, earth, family,



Late Evening Musing
People pass by and moonlight causes shadows to 
appear in the metropolis
Where are they all going?
I surmise that some are going to see family
while others...

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Categories: poetry, poets, urban,

Premium Member Block Party
Dance, Ladies, dance!—
By the light of lanterns.
Let your red skirts swirl
Like the tops of carousels—
Candy-apple red.

Dance, Children, dance!
With your glowing adornments—
Rainbow blue and green—
Firefly green.

The...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: urban, children, city, dance, family,

A Third World City With a Revolutionary Aspect
A third world city with a revolutionary aspect

The poor crouched among the estates;

for the poor, the SUN crashes to the ground!

The hum of the city,
...

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Categories: poverty, urban,

Damdam
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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Categories: adventure, creation, imagination, urban,

Forgive Me For Being Lost
I live in a world where kids Cancer, Women get raped, and teenagers get shot
Government take us to war, Police kill innocent people
We're all judged...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: urban, courage, deep, meaningful, society,

Premium Member To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner
As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted...

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Categories: urban, assonance, black african american,

My Facebook Friends
My Facebook friends,
They are those I describe as universal family.
For, some bring inspiration to what I write
As they motivate what I do daily,
The good ones...

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© Ike Boat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: urban, analogy, friend, friendship, hello,

Liverpool
Liverpool

When night ends, the fog begins
Heavy as lead!
Shrouding the town:
Once grand
And home of grandeur.
The grand mansions
of old times!
Now in ruins: off white!
Harboring the ghosts of...

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Categories: urban, allegory, appreciation, assonance, city,

Premium Member Hip Hop
Give me a beat and mic
I’ll recite what I write
Let me tell you a story of the hardships of life
How to survive poverty and strife
It’s...

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Categories: urban, community, culture, family, hip

From a Piglet To a Hog
Inspired by a family member

"The building of a so called crystal stair"


When he was a young boy
and first put his feet on the block,
He was...

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Categories: urban, hip hop, poetry, spoken


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