Broken Glass Metropolis

Jett · 03-01-2010, 11:46 PM

I really enjoy poetry and free verse and thought perhaps starting a thread and throwing some of my old works in it will give me a nudge to write more often. I'll add more as I sift though.

I'll start with a favorite:

ETA: (I wrote this one before using the screen name Metropolis... so in that, the use of the word metropolis is not in reference to myself)

Broken Glass Metropolis

City at night-
City of light
Offer up your riches
and promise so sweet
You lift them high
up to the sky-
Then throw broken bottles
at my feet

Hope smouldering
in aged smoke stacks
lighted silently
by faint moon-
The clouds scurry
churning swiftly
as stars come to see
the city swoon-
Its concrete arms
reach threatening.

City at night-
City of light-
Broken glass metropolis
turn me inside out
take me
break me
Lift me high
above the night
Make me
whole again

Whispering
midnight winds
come lay me down
beside wet streets-
To tell me
of the sweetest dreams
then throw broken bottles
at my feet.

03-01-2010, 11:46 PM	#1
Jett Member How Do You Identify?: Hardcore bullheaded grown-ass Tomboy Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: she loves my shaggy hair Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The backroom of a night cafe plotting world domination Posts: 1,028 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 3,299 Times in 568 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Broken Glass Metropolis I really enjoy poetry and free verse and thought perhaps starting a thread and throwing some of my old works in it will give me a nudge to write more often. I'll add more as I sift though. I'll start with a favorite: ETA: (I wrote this one before using the screen name Metropolis... so in that, the use of the word metropolis is not in reference to myself) Broken Glass Metropolis City at night- City of light Offer up your riches and promise so sweet You lift them high up to the sky- Then throw broken bottles at my feet Hope smouldering in aged smoke stacks lighted silently by faint moon- The clouds scurry churning swiftly as stars come to see the city swoon- Its concrete arms reach threatening. City at night- City of light- Broken glass metropolis turn me inside out take me break me Lift me high above the night Make me whole again Whispering midnight winds come lay me down beside wet streets- To tell me of the sweetest dreams then throw broken bottles at my feet. __________________ .......... In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus Last edited by Jett; 03-02-2010 at 12:45 AM.