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Tag Archives: City
Shame in the City
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night #211 (posted by Grace) Tenants in the Bronx are tortured by chill ill winds outside and in. Families, elderly, ailing, boil water in large pots to warm a tiny spot on kitchen … Continue reading
New York Redone
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 25 Write a remix poem. For the chapbook challenge, try remixing one of your poems from earlier in the month. I have remixed Day 13 in which we had to … Continue reading
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Tagged City, Etheree, lighting, remixed poem, romance, skaters, tree
New York City
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2017 Chapbook Challenge – Day 13 Pick a city and make that the title of your poem; then write your poem. This city’s skyline shines in pretty sapphire and white lighting up night. Women and … Continue reading
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Tagged City, Golden Shovel form, skating, skyline, Winter, Written for Challenge
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Absence Of
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Silence (posted by Sumana) Where to find that soundlessness? Is Silence merely absence of sound or more than that? “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of … Continue reading
Reconnecting to New York City – FYIs
Written for: Poetic Asides #414 – Write a connection poem. The poem could be about a physical connection, like holding hands or building a bridge across a river. Or it could be about social connections, like at a party or … Continue reading
Black and White Dreams
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #38 (posted by Whimsygizmo) Today, I want us to DREAM together. We called it Tar Beach. If you could reach the roof, tar was your sand, rooftops, your ocean. Superman was a possibility. … Continue reading
Flat Iron
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Weekend Mini-Challenge: “Buildings” (posted by Kim) Today’s challenge is to write about a building. It could be a specific building with a name that we would all know without directly naming it. It … Continue reading
Tokyo
Written for: Carpe Diem #1142, Honshu, the “main island” “Well our journey has started and today we will go on with our journey through the land of the rising sun. We have arrived on the airport of Tokyo on the … Continue reading
NYC Night Lights
Written for: dVerse Poets, Poetics: Night-time Panorama (posted by Kim) The challenge is to write a poem about a city at night, using the photograph as a starting point. You can write about your own city, one you have visited … Continue reading
Avenue
Written for: dVerse Poets: Haibun Monday #23, “Contemporary Cityscape” (posted by Bjorn) This week I thought we would take the haibun to a contemporary haibun. It will be making a few diversion compared to the traditional haibun. Still I would … Continue reading
