Rooftops Poems - Poems about Rooftops

colour-less bleak sky raindrops murmur on rooftops ...Read the rest...

The more I figure something out, the less the words impact When trading dreams for cogent schemes, the verse comes weak and flat The more I chase the clouds away, the clearer are the doubts That misty haze around my...Read the rest...

High above the sidewalks Of the city’s concrete tangle Perched atop the houses From a somewhat tilted angle You may find that there exists A great...Read the rest...

Keep it to yourself and keep looking around Do you need to be there? Can you see the light under the neon? Can you read the lips of the gaudy? Change is sitting there somewhere With a glass, weary-eyed Wondering what...Read the rest...

Here, in the heart of New York locked within the concrete maze of buildings, avenues and taxis, I hear the perpetual cacophony of noises echoing all around me. Looking up, a taste of freedom Freedom from the masses that move relentlessly...Read the rest...

If Christmas came several times a year I would surely be a very happy guy What a true treasure having family near If Christmas came several times a year I would enjoy the carols I love to hear My spirits...Read the rest...

RUNNING ROOFTOPS TO RUINATION Long Island had raised me but the island wasn’t long enough And everyday I had upper-middleclass b******t to rebuff Day after day I’d stride the stairs to the roof of a building where the...Read the rest...

I used to live for everything; for the naked trees in the autumn, for the smell of hope in the spring. Every time that smell came I would breathe deeper. I would look out of...Read the rest...

It’s a year later and the wind has calm. The hard rain now just sprinkles and the rooftops are empty. Empty of the hands reaching up to sky hoping to be rescued from...Read the rest...