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Manhattan Poems - Poems about Manhattan
Manhattan Poems - Examples of all types of poems about manhattan to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Manhattan madness
TS Eliot said, “Paris is a strong stimulant.” It is - but it has nothing on Manhattan. If Paris is a Café Crème espresso at a café-en-terrasse under the stars. Manhattan is a ‘Black Tie Bawls’ cocktail at...
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
manhattan,
city, family, food, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Let's poeticize
Students everywhere feel a close relationship with summer. It develops early and you never lose it. It’s durable. Le’ts poeticize.. It was a youthful summer of unblemished mirth. In play, our youthful hours were freely spent. We bore...
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
manhattan,
home, humor, love, new
Form:
Free verse
Unpremeditated Manhattan
Their meeting, first time, was merry. The flip from her lips, bit airy. Her drink could sink ships. She takes sip and quips, “Would you like to eat my cherry?” ...
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
manhattan,
funny, valentines day,
Form:
Limerick
The White Line
Ever snorted cocaine? I watched some partiers snort cocaine last night, in a dark, Manhattan nightclub corner celebration. But I’ve never crossed that line. The white line. When offered some, with unctuous camaraderie, I shrugged and said, “No,...
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
manhattan,
celebration, drug, humor, new
Form:
Free verse
At Age Seventeen
*** At Age Seventeen *** At 17, the wooden heels of my boots echoed My audacious immaturity along my entire way exploring Manhattan’s south-end area. Its long blocks, I routed For the reason...
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Sally Eslinger
Categories:
manhattan,
angst, christian, city, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Gazes
Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (an NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?” Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.” Leong...
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
manhattan,
clothes, cool, fashion, school,
Form:
Free verse
Manhattan
Manhattan By LoLa The neverending cascade of looming city skylines Towering strangers captures her gaze and her hands Attempts to lift the veil from abandoned timelines Leaves her breathless where A Phantom Hurricane stands Relenting to the light from the cracks...
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Laura Dee
Categories:
manhattan,
angst, city, courage, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Manhattan Rhapsody
Merciless movement Atonal antipathy Nonsensical noise clarinet crescendo soaring above the collided cityscape Harried hordes Aggravating acrimony Terrifying tumult piano playing plaintively over the primal phantasmagoria Torrid traffic Alienated aliens Nihilistic neon soaring strings singing through the striking scenery...
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njv Tomcatx
Categories:
manhattan,
city, music, new york,
Form:
Acrostic
Manhattan Manahatta Memories
Upon my asking a lone Lenape what happened to their tribal home; so soulful that he barely told me the tragic tale of how it had gone. The white man thought he coyly took it a thing that he cannot...
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Greg Gaul
Categories:
manhattan,
earth, lost, memory, native
Form:
Rhyme
Manhattan Madness
Big Apple Bullies It was a...
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Panagiota Romios
Categories:
manhattan,
abuse, bullying, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Morning In Manhattan
Eight million people living here Yet on my morning walk, Deserted streets provided Not a thing at which to gawk. Behind each window there were souls In various routines – Asleep or in the shower Or engaged in breakfast scenes. I marveled...
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
manhattan,
morning, new york,
Form:
Rhyme
Sirens of Manhattan
The sirens of Manhattan Make a sound we always hear, Alerting all pedestrians And traffic to stay clear. It’s background noise that city folk Don’t pay attention to, The urban version of a field Of cows all saying, “Moo.” It doesn’t matter if...
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
manhattan,
new york, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Man From Manhattan
Man From Manhattan There once was a man from Manhattan Whose piggy bank his Dad did fatten He had tiny hands For such a large man But that never kept him from grabbing By Bill MacEachern...
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Bill Maceachern
Categories:
manhattan,
bullying, humor, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
I Love a Young Dancer Named Wilma
There is a young woman I met near Times Square; She's five-foot-eleven with lovely brown hair. We were both buying tickets at the kiosk that's there For a show at the Palace that starred Richard Gere. So she told...
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Roderick Molasar
Categories:
manhattan,
beautiful, beauty, dance, inspirational
Form:
Rhyme
Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Off the train I hit the streets and start laughing. This is ridiculous, incomprehensible. How can innumerable bipeds have individual inner lives. Why are they doing what they’re doing? I have no answer New York City but to also go...
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Robert Ronnow
Categories:
manhattan,
cancer, city, death, hero,
Form:
Verse
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