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Lot's Wife
by Wislawa Szymborska

They say I looked back out of curiosity.
But I could have had other reasons.
I looked back mourning my silver bowl.
Carelessly, while tying my sandal strap.
So I wouldn't have to keep staring at the righteous nape
of my husband Lot's neck.
From the sudden conviction that if I dropped dead
he wouldn't so much as hesitate.
From the disobedience of the meek.
Checking for pursuers.

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The City In Which I Loved You
by Li-Young Lee

And when, in the city in which I love you,
even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
andI mount the scabbed streets,
the long shouts of avenues,
and tunnel sunken night in search of you...

That I negotiate fog, bituminous
rain rining like teeth into the beggar's tin,
or two men jackaling a third in some alley
weirdly lit by a couch on fire, that I

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O' Toronto
by Lee-Ann Azzopardi

If I die here, let it be known
You were my happy place
Not Disney
As the smell of the sewers
Cascade into my nostrils
I think, one day, I'll grab the literati
Of this city and be praised
O' Toronto let down yr hair
And save me from these small town doldrums
That put a chain around my ankles to

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A Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,

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Borderland
by Henry Lawson

I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went --
Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent;
I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track --
Burnt a lot of fancy verses, and I'm glad that I am back.
Further out may be the pleasant scenes of which our poets boast,
But I think the country's rather more inviting round the coast --
Anyway, I'll stay at present at a boarding-house in town
Drinking beer and lemon-squashes, taking baths and cooling down.

Sunny plains! Great Scot! -- those burning wastes of barren soil and sand

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O' Toronto
by Lee-Ann Azzopardi

If I die here, let it be known
You were my happy place
Not Disney
As the smell of the sewers
Cascade into my nostrils
I think, one day, I'll grab the literati
Of this city and be praised
O' Toronto let down yr hair
And save me from these small town doldrums
That put a chain around my ankles to

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Roses in Gold
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Roses in gold sheen
glinting fire at hot June noon
Sun washed garden blooms
Sparkling city paved in gold
in scents of summer so old

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And the City Again/І знову місто (Ukr.)
by Halyna Myroslava

і знову місто проникає в тебе нотою мі
фонити без перерви саксофонним гуком вулиць
мі мі мі
місто
вмістилище містики
міст

викладений щільними ярусами
як велетенська надбудова
над стисненою від страху ріллею

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Terraced Iron Mountain
by Ayatullah Nurjati

My neighborhood is flanked by terraced iron mountains
Dark clouds seemed to surround him
The river water is also murky black
They say they are victims of urbanization

A city that always beats 24 hours a day
Its activities have been bound in a labyrinth
Modernity displays the face of emptiness
I, who live there, find it very, very difficult to meet and chat with honesty


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Uproar
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Scurrying people
windy city wind whistling
Wet animals flee
Blue thunder, silver slick streets
Hued blooms close their perfumed rooms.

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  • Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman (53 poems about City)
    31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 / New York / United States
  •  Homer
    Homer (40 poems about City)
    Disputed - c 850 B.C.E. / Disputed
  • Henry Lawson
    Henry Lawson (35 poems about City)
    17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922 / Grenfell, New South Wales
  • Alan Seeger
    Alan Seeger (20 poems about City)
    22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916 / New York City, New York
  • Khalil Gibran
    Khalil Gibran (16 poems about City)
    January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931 / Bsharri
  • Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg (10 poems about City)
    June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997 / Newark, New Jersey
  • Czeslaw Milosz
    Czeslaw Milosz (10 poems about City)
    30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004 / Kedainiai
  • Constantine P. Cavafy
    Constantine P. Cavafy (7 poems about City)
    29 April 1863 – 29 April 1933 / Alexandria
  • David Lehman
    David Lehman (7 poems about City)
    June 11, 1948 / New York City
  • Arthur Henry Adams
    Arthur Henry Adams (5 poems about City)
    6 December 1872 – 4 March 1936 / Lawrence / New Zealand
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