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Weekend in New York | Ivan Jenson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Weekend in New York | Ivan Jenson

We know
that the sorrows
of this world
are round
as we circle mother’s
earth
like thoughts on a plane
waiting to land
in the rain
in the night
and then we arrive
at our destination
famished and holding
our cell phones to our ears
like everyone else
expecting to see someone
on the other end
of this journey
to the center
of our self-worth
and then we spot
a smile in the terminal
condition of being human
and soon we will be
at our home
away from being
so very alone

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I Love New York | Ivan Jenson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

I Love New York | Ivan Jenson

Do not
fall
in love with this city
its jungle of squares
the curves of walking women
swimming up streams of men
Do not become infatuated
with the magic fog
rising from the concrete night
and the sea life symphony
of traffic and psychological pollution
Do not let
yourself succumb
to hypnotic reds
and blues
of broken hearted Broadway
because this town will never
return your sentiment
you cannot sleep
in the arms of a twenty four hour coffee shop
you cannot tiptoe
to kiss the big lips
of billboards
a cabby
can only be your ten-buck
psychologist for the short ride
The fleet of high heels,
hands, hopes and frustration
will never truly be
your family
when you lose even your darkest powers
they just have to
get to where they are going
I tell you
the city cannot gratify your
greed in the bedroom
Miss Liberty
is only green copper
on a river
and at night
when you close your eyes
she never
sleeps
she is seeing other men
millions of them

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