How it is...

How it is...

 

 

 

New York streets are just different

the vibe is city-er than most

the concrete harder, but shines with graffiti poems

when the Moon peeks through the high-rise skies

and the skyscraper's eyes

 

the walk and the talk are like no other

attitude waits at the crosswalk

with glares and stares

and solemn oaths to find country

the thoughts shuffle along

echoing to themselves

 

conversations solo

striding into Soho

and Greenwich Village

to pillage inspiration

to write, spite or take flight

in elevator shoes

spreading the blues

with cigarette butts smoked to the burn of fingers

hopscotch minds pontificate

to a crowd not listening

 

they all have their own reasons for being there

for finding solace in the bottom of a bottle of ilk

and circumstance

 

New York streets are just different

even the silence is wary

the alleys fear themselves

as the dark night, the somber night

is a razor's edge of insanity

 

but when the daylight once again

shows its brilliant face

illuminated skies cry tears of joy

 

and the bustling rovers

with red faces and carefree incentive

come over...

as the street games

begin again.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

6/29/19 

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I been to New York and I agree. Different feel than most cities. I enjoyed your description of the city. I saw what you had written. Thank you Jacob for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome my friend.

[Tinabells]

wow! I feel like I've been to New York because of this! Thank you, it was inspiring!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Tina.
j.

[Chris Shaw]

I've never been to New York, but you certainly brought New York to me. Quite a place and although I was born in the city of London, I find that I have now have been converted to country ways. I have no desire to experience the mad rush and twenty four seven of the city. Happy to watch it from afar in the movies, but that is as close as I want to be. The city at night has its own ambience, its own stories of hardship and forgotten people. They are all a part of the whole. Excellent poetry Jacob.

Chris

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and i , too, am happy to watch it from afar...thank you for your thoughts about this, Chris.
Vermont in the summers ruined me for city life...i couldn't wait to get away from it.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Within the hustle and bustle every ant has its nest and no two nests are the same. And everyone has roots somewhere like NY. nice write J

[jacob erin-cilberto]

so true, andrew...no two are the same.
thank you,
j.

[Dhaye]

And how it is to be here, too? I was a newbie in this site 6 years ago...with my active hands and fingers putting down my thoughts and emotions into the screen. I had different groups of readers and I was an active reader, too. Now, this place seems to be quiet. My friends were not really gone, but they were not as active as before, just like me.
Sorry for relating this into WC, since I haven't seen yet NY city and its busy streets. One day, maybe.
Thanks for sharing this.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like how you paralleled it, Dhaye...thank you for sharing...how you related,
j.

[Dhaye]

You're.most welcome, sir. I am grateful of you as my reader and supporter for almost 6 years. I know I am not that good writer, just the one needing to express my random thoughts and emotions.

[Kelly Scheppers]

There's bravado in your every line, J. I agree with Sami - you do inspire!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Kelly,
j.

[Sami Khalil]

I can feel this great city holds a special place in the mind and heart of the poet fueling his passions and invoking his desires. The connection is tangible and powerful. The meanings of it all can not close a chapter but resurfaces in due times. Thank you sir Jacob for your wonderful.writes. You inspire.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review Sami...i do have memories of childhood in the Bronx...and imaginations of NY now...from all i have seen, read and heard...how much the same and how much different it is from when i was there.
j.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! You are welcome anywhere.

[kentuck14]

NY has always held a great fascination for me starting back in 74 when my wife spent a summer there completing her nurses training in pediatrics at CPH. Every other weekend I'd go down and we'd roam the streets, ride the subway and generally hit a lot of places in Manhattan . . . including the Village. Loved watching the taxi battles the flooded streets at Columbus Circle during a thunder storm. Felt the safest riding the subway uptown at 1:30 AM . . . cars filled with young revelers after a night on the town. NY was very dirty town then . . . Times Square a real hole in the wall with the porn shows and shops . . . went there only once! Been in the city several times since . . . but that first 3 months was the best . . . newly married, young and full of romantic fancifulness. Driving in on the GW Bridge in my Pinto with the worn tires, swallowed whole by all the passing trucks. Once went in by bus into the scary haunts of the Port Authority where as a returning GI from Europe was kicked in the foot by a cop who told me not to fall asleep in this place. Ahh . . . NY that talked about town . . .
T

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for sharing, Tom...I really enjoyed your story...and especially the subway at 1:30 am...read morethank you for sharing, Tom...I really enjoyed your story...and especially the subway at 1:30 am...
when i was kid in NY it was safe any time...how things change.
you saw the worst...and in the Pinto...oh those cars...:)
thanks for the visit and sharing,
j.

[adichie]

My goodness.... I got a really good feel for the city in this spoken-word song of tribute that is brimming with the five senses, and as many emotions and states of reality. Night or day, the city is a chalice of potent brew.

Your writing, especially the hopscotch minds pontificating to people who are not listening, is a psychedelic treat!!!

Adix

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind review, Adix..
j.