Football Urban Poems

THE SOUND OF TOWNS


Announcing  my address in Gateshead
Usually started me feeling half dead.
The flames crackled as the Detroit  River  burned to Toledo
While...

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TRAM   BELL



Steep streets everywhere you played,
Where your football would roll away forever;
And sawdust spilt out of the butcher’s onto the steep sidewalk 
Among...

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Morning has come to the Lower East Side 
I get ready for the day 
After selecting decent threads 
I will decide what to do 
Meeting...

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The sun is 
shining red as it 
descends from the heavens

Outside my window I 
see its brilliant light 

This city is 
where the fate of...

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Sitting here listening to 
 baseball game on my radio 
   I feel the joy of the new season
Halloween and leaves changing 
...

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A city sight I sometimes spy
Floats, barely moving, in the sky.
It seems cartoonish in its shape
And causes everyone to gape.

It circles slowly, like a shark,
To...

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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...

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In the middle of the night, my eyes open wide!
Warm and cozy, my husband sleeps by my side.
Not a person is rushing; I hear myself...

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What's go great about New Orleans, Louisiana, is that of its jazz music and its voodoo culture. The city has been known as "The Big...

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I was on the other line
 Chit-Chatting
With a close homey of mine
About football and wrestling
Bin-Laden and Bush
After a half hour
I told him that I'll get...

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