Chicago Poems | Examples of Chicago Poetry

The lady with red dreadlocks Toni Townsend Johnson henry she was one rasta Andrews female drug dealer from the devils triangle in Tampa outside USF where I received mental health treatment for my severe anxiety...Read the rest...

I wanted to be everything in my life but not a writer I wanted to scream shout and fight for everything but my timid self couldn't be a fighter, And now  It feels like writing has become an...Read the rest...

As I sit wandering about the south side of Chicago captured effortlessly by the tall dandelions watching the lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails we often lit them just before the sun sets over George...Read the rest...

It was 1986 I was setting in after giving birth to my first son after wearing wires pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...Read the rest...

. for public domain Sometimes my shadow, more inviting than me, a dark apparition on city walkways, catches the passing cast down eye, more so than the benched shadow caster nearby. The shadow invites no one to speak, to open one's...Read the rest...

We finally arrived after going through metal detectors passing through so many children mothers praying for their sons then there was us my curiosity of it all passing the guards I felt strange this place...Read the rest...

YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...Read the rest...

We suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk while waving to the hidden Walter Payton nooks wandering steel of recycled metal forming beautiful...Read the rest...

Patrick Jovial, Inquisitive, Wise and Poetic Brother of Brian, Daniel, Andrea, Mellissa, Jamil and Anwar Lover of Freedom, Poetry, and Video Games Who Feels...Read the rest...

How incandescent she, glance for what he's trembling for. The dillusional inside sparks brightest like never, seedlings of hopes arouses fancy over. Hours left by gossiping, some mornings included. Retrouvaille he lost within. Utter-oblivion yappings relentlessly they carried, seem never...Read the rest...

Three or four blocks from ground zero, I watched the fires after a fallen hero. It was one long black night in Chicago. "Goodbye Martin"; To new heartaches, "Hello". Mayhem in the streets like a rushing river flow. Improvements, yes;...Read the rest...

U can 2 was on the license plate of my store manager brown Benz where a dead man was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan...Read the rest...

There was no easy day going under cover with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor I was just a young mother of four actually expecting again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...Read the rest...

Shopping during the winter trying to keep my hands warm by placing them in my pockets but how can I carry my purse walking down lake shore drive the horse carriages stroll by the geese...Read the rest...

I didn't know him as a serial not exactly at least not at first even though I'd overheard the plotting of arson from a dim lit restroom searching for tissue only to find several guns rifles...Read the rest...