New york Poems | Poemist

Manhattan

by Ben Scott

You turned that night into a bad habit.

Second floor.
Tight wooden stairs .
Long bar.
Dim lit room .
Blood in a tall glass.
The famous dead rabbit.

Freezing winter midnight down on Broadway.

......

New York (Albanian)

by Pavol Janik

Në një pasqyrë të rrafshët
Të gjirit të pispillosur
Shënjat e një qyteti kockëdalë
Që I ngul thikën qiellit të shëndritshëm

Në detin e shëndritëshëm të llampave
Duke këkruar flirt lëvrijnë varkat
Fërgëllojnë mahnitëshëm
Në këmbët e tua të shqetësuara
duke lundruar në ultësirën e kuvertës

......

New York (Croatian)

by Pavol Janik

Na vodoravnome zrcalu
ispruženog zaljeva
strše šiljci uglatoga grada
zabodeni direktno u zvjezdani svod.
U blistavom moru svjetiljki
prekrasno stradavaju u brodolomu
zanosne lađice sa štiklom
na tvojima uzbudljivima nogama
koje plove u potpalublju
brokatne večernje haljine.

......

empire state

by Sarah A

helicopters circling skyscrapers
like flies orbiting giants
past and future meet
across your concrete streets
can’t love it until you leave it
a fading empire
but forever beacon
began to love you
from a distance

Summer Evening: New York Subway-Station

by Maxwell Bodenheim

Perspiring violence derides
The pathetic collapse of dirt.
An effervescence of noises
Depends upon cement for its madness.
Electric light is taut and dull,
Like a nauseated suspense.
This kind of heat is the recollection
Of an orgy in a swamp.
Soiled caskets joined together
Slide to rasping stand-stills.

......

Yesterday

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Blithe humour yearns for
Pridian vagaries before now,
Trusting the mooring of able
Ships on clear waters of
Mirror images.
Wistful, our call on the sere
Tongue of harmattan, when
Pines whistled in unison to
Welcome straying and returning
Birds – black confetti over

......