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Summer Urban Poems

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

Summer Moon

Grimy sweaty dusk, 
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Categories: urban, city, dark, light, moon,

Pigeon Tai Chi

Park of unfenced wildness
          densely packed in light infused summer
city folk beat paths of free spirited...

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Categories: urban, bird, cinco de mayo,

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,

Suburban Wastes I

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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Categories: urban, addiction, age, angst, anxiety,

Street Sign

its tin metal somewhat mangled 
            from a moving van that fetched impairment
twisted signage...

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Categories: urban, appreciation, city, life, seasons,

New York

clear  Central Park day
      a bucolic tour reigns loose,
      a pluralism ride......

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Categories: urban, allusion, day, extended metaphor,

Urban Sprawl

Ancient Jurassic stone
casts out the grime
long gone the fog
of industrial crime.
Main thoroughfare
now left in peace
no local blues to sing
in the old coachman’s Fleece*.

When moonlight bathes
within...

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Categories: urban, feelings, nostalgia,

Urban Jungle Blues

Urban Jungle Blues

I am a survivor of the urban jungle!
Where walking in fear was a daily struggle.
Angry, violent, hostile people on mass 
transportation.
Cussing, spitting and...

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Categories: urban, abuse, child abuse, death,

Urban Seasoning Sonnets

If keen a goldfinch knits, loops and entwines
through hawthorn, urgent instinct loosens free. 
It's bright with flash that crimson blaze enshrines;
as summer scorches red, it...

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Categories: urban, nature,

Watermelon Gum: a Poem About Identity Crisis's In the City

The words “watermelon gum” and “stifling heat” shouldn’t be synonymous with the sentiments that ripped me to shreds during the month of July--and although all...

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Categories: urban, 11th grade, anger, anxiety,

Jeff Mart Jingle

Years ago I wrote a jingle for a real store.
They didn't know I did, but I did.




The soda pop shop
The soda pop shop
Be sure to...

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Categories: urban, food, funny, music, silly,

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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Categories: urban, children, city, dance, family,

Summer Heat

Summer has now come
flash of red on the corner
City full of pain...

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Categories: summer, urban,

Grand Theft Audio

lets shout it out 
lets move it to the streets 
bang that car spanked-out speakers
to the rumble of the mass beat  
 
now bass...

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Categories: urban, community, dance, freedom, humorous,

The Stoop

In a world gone by,
               there was the “Stoop “
More than...

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Categories: urban, change, community, home, life,