City Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about cities. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Your wavingWhen we were passing by and my eyes met yours, your head was tilting right, your eyebrows were laying down, your eyes were almost closed and your lips formed your smile until your little dimples...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Verse
Haphazard CityAlthough hubby and I don't live close to downtown Dallas, we sometimes have occasion to venture 60 miles south down the freeway taking the exit we took many years ago when we both worked in...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Monoku
Make my vision disappear,,Just don't look, focus on something else", my therapist said.
I stopped: ,,What should I do?"
,,Do the hobbies you like, what do you like to do?"
,,Boxing"
,,Then go boxing, your thoughts disappear"
,,Nothing just disappears"
,,What?"
,,No, thanks I...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Blank verse
AppearancesThe distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...
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Categories:
city, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
THE BEAUTY OF DUBAIDubai, a marvel nestled between nature's grandeur and technological prowess, enchants with its mesmerizing beauty. Skyscrapers reach for the heavens, their sleek forms kissing the azure sky.
Once tranquil fishing villages along the Arabian Gulf, now...
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Categories:
12th grade, city,
Form: Free verse
A City of Splendor and GraceWe are bound for a city of splendor and grace,
Where farewells are never the case.
Heaven’s realm is beyond earthly scenes,
Where mansions are prepared by heavenly means.
With Love as judge, the verdict is clear,
Everyone is invited...
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Categories:
city, encouraging, heaven, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The BuffaloNo one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky stampede
How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...
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Categories:
animal, city, earth, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Eager Bard Imbued Part TwoLemon tinted phase
gilded skyline blown
by ethereal fused mist
eager bard imbued
opal dream flotilla
beyond tarnish while
flash point chariots
of gleam-well canvass
astir or astern perforce
taunt a hued vase
porcelain image fest
for staunch earthbound...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, character, city,
Form: Free verse
Renaissance
Metro Cardigan
with a slim fit.
Be in your thinking mature.
Hero of the day.
Atlantic Starr
Moving steadily besides the still waters.
May goodness follow me.
Ensemble Cymbalta.
Skyscrapers on top of cloud atlas,
Vanilla sky fools delight of a purple sky.
Rotating around...
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Categories:
city, adventure, appreciation, art, black
Form: Free verse
A SmidgenGive a pigeon just a smidgen
And his friends will flock to share
While each sparrow’s focus narrows,
Wond’ring if it’s worth the dare.
Soon a robin may come bobbin’
Though he’s just consumed a worm
Which the grackle tried to...
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Categories:
bird, city,
Form: Rhyme
i smoked a cigarette and left the city behindI asked the owl:
“What is love?”
She said to me:
"Ask God."
I asked God:
“What is love?”
He said:
“Ask your wife.”
I asked my wife:
“What is love?”
She replied with a smile:
«Ask the owl»
I smoked a cigarette and left the city...
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Categories:
city, love,
Form: Free verse
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
america, christmas, city, evil,
Form: Free verse
Passport~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
time
traveling
through the
city's
passport
of medieval
colors...
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Categories:
city, color, travel,
Form: Monoku
The forestSoon the forest would reveal its dark secret
and I don't want to be there again to see
instead I'd be walking the world on my own
cuz I already know what's in there
I told myself so many...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Little SquaresEvery building in my view
Has perfect little squares
Of windows lined up neatly
Which I gaze at, unawares.
From where I sit, I cannot see
The curtains, shades or blinds,
The distance meaning if I stare,
Then no one really minds.
And...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of City Poems
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