Poems About the City by Top Critiquers
#city
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
446 reads
8 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 3:09am
18th Feb 2025 3:09am
Reconsecration
Reconsecration
Glasses stained in Stygian windows
With leopard spot rims for predatory effect
Met with sanguine lipstick heat
Her flaming kiss
Is a nitro-glycerin palliative
For Soho heartaches gone mad
When her Greenwich Village tastes
Like poems on all gallows night
That sing for her last supper
When slumlords hang
A no-vacancy brand of fascism
On the rookery gates to skid row
While the arterial Cathedral
For her sacramental corpuscles
Is reconsecrated to Aphrodite
Glasses stained in Stygian windows
With leopard spot rims for predatory effect
Met with sanguine lipstick heat
Her flaming kiss
Is a nitro-glycerin palliative
For Soho heartaches gone mad
When her Greenwich Village tastes
Like poems on all gallows night
That sing for her last supper
When slumlords hang
A no-vacancy brand of fascism
On the rookery gates to skid row
While the arterial Cathedral
For her sacramental corpuscles
Is reconsecrated to Aphrodite
#city
#oppression
#sensual
#spiritual
#women
47 reads
2 Comments
MalcolmG
Poem Published
16th Nov 2024 5:59am
16th Nov 2024 5:59am
The Star That Never Sleeps
Through the north window my chamber glows,
A star with uncanny light bestows.
Through long hellish hours of blackness and fear,
In the autumn of the year, when winds jeer,
From the north they curse and whine,
Through red-leaved trees, the swamp’s grim design,
Where mutterings in shadows creep,
Under the horned moon's baleful sweep.
I sit, by the casement's cold embrace,
And watch the star that holds its place.
Cassiopeia reels from her heights so bright,
Charles’ Wain lumbers through the night. ...
A star with uncanny light bestows.
Through long hellish hours of blackness and fear,
In the autumn of the year, when winds jeer,
From the north they curse and whine,
Through red-leaved trees, the swamp’s grim design,
Where mutterings in shadows creep,
Under the horned moon's baleful sweep.
I sit, by the casement's cold embrace,
And watch the star that holds its place.
Cassiopeia reels from her heights so bright,
Charles’ Wain lumbers through the night. ...
#city
#memories
#regret #stars
#regret #stars
69 reads
0 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
679 reads
18 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
10th Dec 2023 3:49am
10th Dec 2023 3:49am
by the slice
I feel it!
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
#America
#city
#prison
195 reads
4 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
17th Apr 2017 4:29am
17th Apr 2017 4:29am
Crossing the Divide
slippers worn to tatters
running on bridges
dotted with nails
shifting unstable
under running feet
living with nature's lights
water fresh from the gushes
of waterfalls in the forest
thats the great divide between
them and the rest of them
running on bridges
dotted with nails
shifting unstable
under running feet
living with nature's lights
water fresh from the gushes
of waterfalls in the forest
thats the great divide between
them and the rest of them
#city
#countryside
#nature
1387 reads
10 Comments
a_methyste
hlightdroid
hlightdroid
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 8:21pm
17th Jan 2025 8:21pm
Breathe
A suffocating air
The city is still
I want to breathe
I want to breathe.
The city is still
I want to breathe
I want to breathe.
#city
62 reads
2 Comments
faithmairee
Poem Published
8th Sep 2020 11:43am
8th Sep 2020 11:43am
Evil At The Wayward Inn
No more boarders,'
the inn keeper spewed
raising her arms in the air.
People once came to the inn in droves
because it was a quaint little structure
with flower beds surrounding it
It stood on the outskirts of town
a darling little place it was
that is until the unthinkable occurred
Some tennants were good renters
perhaps the majority of them were
Then came a drifter with a scraggly beard and shifty eyes
He tried to make the inn his home
much to the innkeeper's chagrin
There was something odd...
the inn keeper spewed
raising her arms in the air.
People once came to the inn in droves
because it was a quaint little structure
with flower beds surrounding it
It stood on the outskirts of town
a darling little place it was
that is until the unthinkable occurred
Some tennants were good renters
perhaps the majority of them were
Then came a drifter with a scraggly beard and shifty eyes
He tried to make the inn his home
much to the innkeeper's chagrin
There was something odd...
#city
#murder
570 reads
18 Comments
James_A_Knight
Poem Published
5th Dec 2022 5:13pm
5th Dec 2022 5:13pm
Public Travel Gloom (Depressing poem warning)
London Two P.M
The sky was dark
The day had died
Before it lived
Memories sang:
I wanted to thrill you all night
Then hold you softly till the day light
You liked to watch me suffer in pain
You wanted me to love you in vain
The plates crashed
The mountains danced
The hills woke up
Covered in grass
Man on the bridge
Hunch back, hunched over
Black overcoat
Searching for his last marble
Finding nothing
Losing the game
People pass Frightened
Avoiding his lost eyes...
The sky was dark
The day had died
Before it lived
Memories sang:
I wanted to thrill you all night
Then hold you softly till the day light
You liked to watch me suffer in pain
You wanted me to love you in vain
The plates crashed
The mountains danced
The hills woke up
Covered in grass
Man on the bridge
Hunch back, hunched over
Black overcoat
Searching for his last marble
Finding nothing
Losing the game
People pass Frightened
Avoiding his lost eyes...
#city
#UnrequitedLove
#travel
474 reads
2 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
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
635 reads
23 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
21st Dec 2024 2:04pm
21st Dec 2024 2:04pm
Got A Postcard From Catherine
Richard got a
postcard from
Catherine in
San Francisco.
It has a photo
of her naked
on a local beach.
postcard from
Catherine in
San Francisco.
It has a photo
of her naked
on a local beach.
#beach
#city
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#sex
164 reads
0 Comments
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