Poems About the City by Top Critiquers
#city
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
4th Mar 2023 2:27pm
4th Mar 2023 2:27pm
People are Not What they Used to Be ( Humor Sorta )
People have always sucked
But now worse than ever
Simple manners vanished
Why ?
Too busy texting walking down the street
I could have told you to look out for that dog shit
You wouldn't have heard me
Too busy
Now busier scraping shit off your shoes
Hope you have a lot of grooves on the sole
That will keep you busy for awhile
Off your frigging phone
Some people say I have a bad attitude
I say nothing that a cheap bottle of vodka and a blow job won't cure
I also say go fuck yourself
I...
But now worse than ever
Simple manners vanished
Why ?
Too busy texting walking down the street
I could have told you to look out for that dog shit
You wouldn't have heard me
Too busy
Now busier scraping shit off your shoes
Hope you have a lot of grooves on the sole
That will keep you busy for awhile
Off your frigging phone
Some people say I have a bad attitude
I say nothing that a cheap bottle of vodka and a blow job won't cure
I also say go fuck yourself
I...
#anger
#city
#TruthOfLife
#CallToAction
#StreamOfConsciousness
154 reads
40 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
28th Feb 2023 00:30am
28th Feb 2023 00:30am
Silken Ties
#betrayal
#politics
#city #lover
#city #lover
220 reads
8 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
2nd Jan 2021 7:01am
2nd Jan 2021 7:01am
Golden Empire
The landscape changes every ten miles in each direction
Ranches and fields to the south and west
A brown panorama due to fracking in the north
And large farms to the east, leading to the mountains
To the southern tip of the Sierras
Although most of the town is flat
On the outskirts
The roads move up and down with the terrain
Where the land is open and wide
On the highways you can drive for miles
And see nothing but fields
You can see the migrant workers
Working under the hot summer sun
Working in the harshest...
Ranches and fields to the south and west
A brown panorama due to fracking in the north
And large farms to the east, leading to the mountains
To the southern tip of the Sierras
Although most of the town is flat
On the outskirts
The roads move up and down with the terrain
Where the land is open and wide
On the highways you can drive for miles
And see nothing but fields
You can see the migrant workers
Working under the hot summer sun
Working in the harshest...
#home
#city
#nature #LifeCycle
#nature #LifeCycle
328 reads
8 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
22nd May 2022 9:16am
22nd May 2022 9:16am
The International
We live in the age of the dimming wit
Where hearth holy flames of domestic bliss
Are all too often...algorithmically split
In consternation to the neutral Swiss
Who every day display the peaceful way
To model behavior for all to see
(Whether you are straight or savagely gay)
When Geneva is on a convention spree;
Where chocolate is great and the wine first rate
On every hotel floor diplomatic...
With official Red Cross cookies of state
By pastry chefs...ably programmatic,
And the coffee cups are all heaped with foam
Perking...
Where hearth holy flames of domestic bliss
Are all too often...algorithmically split
In consternation to the neutral Swiss
Who every day display the peaceful way
To model behavior for all to see
(Whether you are straight or savagely gay)
When Geneva is on a convention spree;
Where chocolate is great and the wine first rate
On every hotel floor diplomatic...
With official Red Cross cookies of state
By pastry chefs...ably programmatic,
And the coffee cups are all heaped with foam
Perking...
#city
#earth
#utopia
#redemption
#philosophical
137 reads
0 Comments
brokentitanium
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k.
Poem Published
13th Jan 2023 4:16pm
13th Jan 2023 4:16pm
Blindsided
Dark in the city shines our girl
combat boots in summertime
bringing the fire to all things new
sunrise and untapped love
she's all ideas and possibilities
never pausing to grasp reality
you stepped right into her fast track
unprepared
and now scorched earth is where you stand
caught up in her orbit
sunburned without a plan
blindsided
And she shines so bright
you were blindsided
Under the chaos shines our girl
gritting her teeth in wintertime
daring the fire to shelter her
midnight...
combat boots in summertime
bringing the fire to all things new
sunrise and untapped love
she's all ideas and possibilities
never pausing to grasp reality
you stepped right into her fast track
unprepared
and now scorched earth is where you stand
caught up in her orbit
sunburned without a plan
blindsided
And she shines so bright
you were blindsided
Under the chaos shines our girl
gritting her teeth in wintertime
daring the fire to shelter her
midnight...
#love
#city
#fire
#music
#passion
205 reads
23 Comments
CaraPecosa
Poem Published
11th Oct 2022 5:59pm
11th Oct 2022 5:59pm
The Unchanging City Life
This wonderous city of dreams
Is the place where your screams
Frequently get drowned
By the blending sounds
Of the homeless with their carts
The bangers tagging art
Construction underway
It’s constant disarray
As taxis fight with bicycles
Stop and go, stop and go is the cycle
Heels strike against the pavement
Caught in the grind of enslavement
“Hey, I’m walkin’ here”
In the crowd, I disappear
Is the place where your screams
Frequently get drowned
By the blending sounds
Of the homeless with their carts
The bangers tagging art
Construction underway
It’s constant disarray
As taxis fight with bicycles
Stop and go, stop and go is the cycle
Heels strike against the pavement
Caught in the grind of enslavement
“Hey, I’m walkin’ here”
In the crowd, I disappear
#identity
#city
#LifeCycle
140 reads
4 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
26th Sep 2022 9:30pm
26th Sep 2022 9:30pm
Take a ride with me
I want you to play a game with me.
Look at the dots on the wall here.
They tell me where we will go next.
Random journeys into the unknown.
And at night we are only shadows.
Simply moving from place to place.
Through this underground network.
A strange world woven in the city.
With points of metro schemes.
Look at the dots on the wall here.
They tell me where we will go next.
Random journeys into the unknown.
And at night we are only shadows.
Simply moving from place to place.
Through this underground network.
A strange world woven in the city.
With points of metro schemes.
#teens
#city
#travel
#risk
#ThrillSeeking
445 reads
56 Comments
Naajir
Poem Published
20th Jul 2019 7:02pm
20th Jul 2019 7:02pm
Fahrenheit NYC
NYC...
has been sold to the highest bidder
buildings are going up higher..
rent even higher
skyrocketing...politician pocketing bribes
it's greed gone gluttonous
with no logical thought in sight
no insight whatsoever
impending ecological disaster
coming faster and faster
all this 'progress' has become a drain
on the infrastructure
over taxed just like the residents
strained to the max...
trains coming to a complete halt
power outages inducing
outrage...heatwave heightens
frustrations in this...
has been sold to the highest bidder
buildings are going up higher..
rent even higher
skyrocketing...politician pocketing bribes
it's greed gone gluttonous
with no logical thought in sight
no insight whatsoever
impending ecological disaster
coming faster and faster
all this 'progress' has become a drain
on the infrastructure
over taxed just like the residents
strained to the max...
trains coming to a complete halt
power outages inducing
outrage...heatwave heightens
frustrations in this...
#corruption
#politics
#city #greed
#city #greed
274 reads
2 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
16th Dec 2022 6:07am
16th Dec 2022 6:07am
Haight/Ashbury
Haight/Ashbury
Haight Street Long Gone Past Ashbury
Where the purple crowd gathers
For a convocation of beggars
One holds alms cap for coins
Fresh from the heavenly mint
Hoping for Sacagawea’s progeny
As silver dollars emancipated from the pockets
Of passersby on the road to Highway miles
Where a pouch
Hangs on a stick for luck of Louisiana
“I have purple and gold in my mind”
His Baton Rouge mind blitz
Borrows my billfold
Into an opening
That unfolds like a memory
Of terracotta roofs
But his beatific...
Haight Street Long Gone Past Ashbury
Where the purple crowd gathers
For a convocation of beggars
One holds alms cap for coins
Fresh from the heavenly mint
Hoping for Sacagawea’s progeny
As silver dollars emancipated from the pockets
Of passersby on the road to Highway miles
Where a pouch
Hangs on a stick for luck of Louisiana
“I have purple and gold in my mind”
His Baton Rouge mind blitz
Borrows my billfold
Into an opening
That unfolds like a memory
Of terracotta roofs
But his beatific...
#happiness
#city
#homelessness #surreal
#homelessness #surreal
96 reads
0 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
28th Feb 2023 12:10pm
28th Feb 2023 12:10pm
Highway
so he came
next to me
looking for heat
or out of fear
or even pain...
huddled over me
throbbing
and jumping
trying to stay
trying to run away
trying...*
in the empty city
his name
everywhere:
walls, cars,
viaducts, on the streets...
everywhere,
his name repeated
to zero exponent
of obsolete.
to remember that love
is abstraction
even when
exorcised in concrete.
climb
the blue paper walls
of drawn flowers
with care and zeal ...
next to me
looking for heat
or out of fear
or even pain...
huddled over me
throbbing
and jumping
trying to stay
trying to run away
trying...*
in the empty city
his name
everywhere:
walls, cars,
viaducts, on the streets...
everywhere,
his name repeated
to zero exponent
of obsolete.
to remember that love
is abstraction
even when
exorcised in concrete.
climb
the blue paper walls
of drawn flowers
with care and zeal ...
#love
#city
#mirror
#myself
#philosophical
50 reads
4 Comments
Adelphina
Poem Published
9th Mar 2022 3:41am
9th Mar 2022 3:41am
Graffiti Electricity
Raptures of concrete
Five stories high
Legacies of the streets
Inherited with backdrop skies
Tattooed walls for outlaws
Society of the untamed
Chasing crazed brain fame
Stolen bricks of unsold gold
Colors exposed and paroled
Escaping an incarcerated mind
Sketches showcasing mankind
Spray can dreams that combine
Gangster calligraphy
Kilowatts of creativity
Graffiti Electricity
Five stories high
Legacies of the streets
Inherited with backdrop skies
Tattooed walls for outlaws
Society of the untamed
Chasing crazed brain fame
Stolen bricks of unsold gold
Colors exposed and paroled
Escaping an incarcerated mind
Sketches showcasing mankind
Spray can dreams that combine
Gangster calligraphy
Kilowatts of creativity
Graffiti Electricity
#city
#art
443 reads
18 Comments
silent_lotus
Poem Published
6th Oct 2021 12:33pm
6th Oct 2021 12:33pm
Summer’s Aplomb
#relationships
#inspirational
#city
#LifeChangingMoment
#dance
321 reads
4 Comments
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