HARLEM

Urban

street corner conversation
while hands make exchanges,
bodegas bustling,
fire escape carpet dusting,
hot peas and butter,
salsa lovers,
determined single mothers,
hopeful kids home before dark,
play in cement parks
while a neighbors dog barks,
empty viles, and cigar filling
left from a cypher now gone,
escaping from things
they haven't done wrong,
twisting fingers braid
woolen hair while girls
play double dutch,
jumping in pairs as
a pastor bids farewell

Reviews

[Umar Hassan]

This is the dope. Quick as New Yawk. Everything works.

[MS. BABy]

you capture your audience quite quickly I am enjoying this

[Maya Storm]

Very vivid, I can see all these things actually happening and you put me in the middle of it... I did not like the pastor leaving
"...determined single mothers... woolen hair... double dutch..." Love the imagery.

[Bailey C. Writing]

What vivid imagery o.o You're really good at expressing what is happening or going on in a poem. Good job.
This was interesting, and I felt like I was there

[joshua deathdealer]

Great write, The imagery is so vivid that I can hear the dog barking!!

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

You took me into a world I have always been curious about but never visited. Well done poet!

[KimLove "The Beautiful ..]

Wow a reader can take so much imagery away with just so few words. It's like watching a trailer from a movie, seeing it all unfold right before my eyes. This was truly touching and amazing to me. xo

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

You took us all there...
You captured it in all of its essence
in only one take.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Nice prose, Rene. You have the ability to describe so much by saying so little. You are blessed, blessed I tell you.

[Ruth]

I actually think you capture life so well love...you convey every element to it, makes it real and felt! As though the reader has experienced it all! xx