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Downtown Poems - Poems about Downtown

Downtown
• He should've been back by now • "Where did he go?" you ask • "Downtown in the straw market," I replied • "He tends to carry a flask" ...

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Categories: downtown, 11th grade, drink, people,
Form: Rhyme
After Karaoke
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 ...

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Categories: downtown, appreciation, inspiration, music, night,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Downtown barber shop
Best way to hear the local news and meet new people...

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Categories: downtown, people,
Form: Monoku
Heading Downtown by Subway
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 indicating When the closest train will come – That is, if you’re in luck. Minutes tick by, generating Lots more people congregating But you’ve made...

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Categories: downtown, new york, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vacation Downtown
The noise and the grime the mushrooming crime junkies and beggars abound Strange folks in your face steal your car, spray some mace Who wants to vacation downtown ... This year I'll cede culture to the buzzard and...

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Categories: downtown, bird, city, culture, vacation,
Form: Rhyme



Downtown Mission
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 hoods of the angle parked cars. Drivers jostle, spar in their car for the pathetic number of any available space...

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Categories: downtown, caregiving, culture, environment, good
Form: Free verse
City Beats
As I walk the city streets and listen to the city beats my heart keeps time with every sound ...

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Categories: downtown, environment, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunset Downtown
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 past the golden hour frantic above and below anticipating...

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Categories: downtown, beautiful, car, city, color,
Form: Dodoitsu
Downtown Nashville
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...

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Categories: downtown, crazy, suicide,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Feed My Sheep He Pled
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 our long ago downtown Watching the Salvation Army Marching the hungry children Stopping for a taste of his blood And...

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Categories: downtown, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Downtown
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 peoples forms Silhouetted on the floor, shadowed in the windows Concrete surroundings open like curtains in a room Apartments spread apart to...

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Categories: downtown, appreciation, change, fantasy, moon,
Form: Free verse
Downtown
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 like curtains Steel beams grow to towers touched by silent sides Small moons come in from other star systems As visitors strong on...

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Categories: downtown, change, city, confusion, moon,
Form: Free verse
Dancing With the Plague
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 the cobblestone valley of downtown Ballerinas of steam Spin From paper-pushed vents in the empty streets Window shopping on Washington Square Laces of faces and...

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Categories: downtown, dance, depression, fear, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Infrastructure Soul
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 green moss And the voices of old black dudes echoes to casts “Damn motherer, you crossed my line!” Splash. To catch catfish on a...

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Categories: downtown, city, fish, fishing, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cityscape Sundown
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 reach Just crave to punch their card and call it a day Hoping to wind down before they close their eyes The buildings...

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Categories: downtown, art, city, day, sun,
Form: Free verse

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