Urban Renewal Poems - Poems about Urban Renewal

...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ......

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...Salt City Syracuse, You dwell in Mid State, You are used for testing new products, Rebuild, rebuild where you are, 15th Ward East, Southside of town, 81 came it decimated you, Know home you know......

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...Where have all of my childhood memories gone? I often see visions from an earlier time Imbedded deep within my mind, They take me back to my boyhood days, Where everything was done in simpler way......

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...There was a long serving counter, high revolving chairs, and café smells. There was a special taste of hamburgers served at this southern segregated café. My first encounter with the café and the t......

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...December rains Hurl aqueous tears; Salty aftertaste ~~~~~~~~~ Monsoon season Wet and wet again; Abrupt mood swings ~~~~~~~~~ Seek knowing Beyond word count; Awareness sums ~~......

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...Street alley stalls Tourist bazaar fare; Souvenirs to go ~~~~~~~~~ Seasonal fruit A yearly dessert; Duku escapade ~~~~~~~~~ Old colonial shophouse Freehold property; Modern fac......

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...fin - début what human has created, sapien can asunder it's not ours to keep forever defaulted through ignorance, avarice, prideful blunder it's only some created civilization after all the neighbo......

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...The young ailanthus tree grew in a narrow yard Behind a rowhouse in a block facing the boulevard, And anyone could tell it never would grow tall; Only its shadow loomed immense at evening on the w......

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