Downtown Poems - Poems about Downtown

music lingers streetlights shine stars man and woman sleeping in shadows the library’s closed an intimate voice on the radio as I drive home midnight the spell is cast midnight as I drive home on the radio an intimate voice the library’s closed sleeping in shadows man and woman shine stars streetlights music lingers ...Read the rest...

Best way to hear the local news and meet new people...Read the rest...

The escalator keeps descending; Seemingly, it’s never-ending, Taking riders deep into The bowels of the earth. Everyone around pretending That they’re fine, of course, depending On their circumstances and Just what their time is worth. When the platform’s reached, there’s waiting. Scrolling signs are...Read the rest...

The noise and the grime the mushrooming crime junkies and beggars abound Strange folks in your face steal your car, spray some mace Who...Read the rest...

Grand Hope Flower CA Hospital over a century of healing Construction din all of downtown one enormous construction site with all its might peeling into daylight Executive traffic thinks it’s funny, whizzes as acorns drop onto windshields and...Read the rest...

As I walk the city streets and listen to the city...Read the rest...

high-rises touch sunset skies and are bathed in many hues fast cars bright lights raucous noise eclectic beauty frowns and smiles people laughing on the way to a new day in the now vivid fashions sophisticated heart of the city red sun not long...Read the rest...

there's a place to go the lights are much brighter there if you're that crazy you can blow up an RV and let the whole world stare...Read the rest...

Feed My Sheep He Pled By David J Walker It turns out that my Atheists friends were all wrong Jesus is real And he hangs around on a cross-town traffic light Over the bricks laid by prisoners In the streets of...Read the rest...

In downtown, middles turn square, streets bend then end Out of sight, day begins to climb the mountain sky With a glow light lost on the fading fog on the horizon Less incognito, glass panes fill up with...Read the rest...

In the middle of downtown, streets bend then end Where day begins to climb the mountains range With a glow light on the horizon less than incognito Glass panes fill up with peoples silhouetted forms Concrete surrounds windows opened...Read the rest...

A nurse takes time To hang a DNA rainbow strain Of Christmas bulbs Along my gray window ledge He plugged them in Bringing a campfire glow of embers Under my lids And to the shirking corners And the inflating machines shushing the room Below In...Read the rest...

Beneath the city the river fishing is good. I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms Wound around the cement underbelly of bridges Devouring the guts of the city’s glamour Down here where shadows are long as...Read the rest...

The tired sun sets over an everbustling city Blinding dazed commuters heading west Their cars in single file attempt to scatter I hear a sound of hush descend over the cityscape While towers scraping as high as they can...Read the rest...

We're going round and round to the downtown Tonight the stars ain't here Cause in my eyes I'm looking at the brightest It feels like I'm dreaming Don't wake me up Drown me with your eyes Touch me with your heart I'm dreaming...Read the rest...