Welcome to Your Poetry Dot Com - Read, Rate, Comment on, or Submit Poetry. Browse Poetry Forums, or just enjoy other parts of our poetic community.
One of the largest databases of poetry on the net, now over 198,500+ poems!
Welcome to Your Poetry Dot Com    Poems On Site: 198,500+   Comments On Poems: 427,000+   Forum Posts: 105,000+
Custom Search
  Welcome ! Home  ·  FAQ  ·  Topics  ·  Web Links  ·  Your Account  ·  Submit Poetry  ·  Top 30  ·  23-November 20:26:58 AEST  
  Menu
  Home
· Micks Shop
· Our eBay Store· Error Submit
 Poetry
· Submit Poetry
· Least Read Poems
· Topics
· Members Listing
· Poetry Archive
· Public Domain Poetry
 Stories
· Stories (NEW ! )
· Submit Story
· Story Topics
· Stories Archive
· Story Search
  Community
· Our Poetry Forums
· Our Arcade
100's of Games !

  Site Help
· FAQ
· Feedback

  Members Areas
· Your Account· Premium Sign-Up
  Premium Section
· Special Section
· Premium Poems
· Premium Submit
· Premium Search
· Premium Top
· Premium Archive
· Premium Topics
 Fun & Games

· Jokes
 Reference
· Content
 Search
· Search
· Web Links
· All Links
 Top
· Top 30
  Help This Site
 Others
· Recipes
· Moderators
Our Other Sites
· Embroidery Design Store
· Your Jokes
· Special Urls
· JM Embroideries
· Public Domain Poetry and Stories
· Diamond Dotz
· Cooking Info and Recipes
· Quoof - Australian Story

  Social

City of a Million

Contributed by deadheadpoet on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 01:21:19 AM in AEST
Topic: Grief







I look at them
like thousands of tiny maggots
wriggling this way
and that way
feeding and ripping away
at the flesh of the earth.
(does she feel the pain?)

They emit odors which
leave me vying
for fresh
clean
country air.
(is there such a thing anymore?)

Clouds of their waste
waft about the land
choking life
plant, animal
and yeah,
even man.
(though some think they are invincible)

City of a million
where do you go?
Where are you to grow
from here?
You'll conquer the world
I fear one day.
(I don't want your concrete out my way)




Penned 10-19-06
Laura Horner




Copyright © deadheadpoet ... [ 2006-10-20 01:21:19]
(Date/Time posted on site)





Advertisments:






Previous Posted Poem         | |         Next Posted Poem


 
Sorry, comments are no longer allowed for anonymous, please register for a free membership to access this feature and more
All comments are owned by the poster. Your Poetry Dot Com is not responsible for the content of any comment.
That said, if you find an offensive comment, please contact via the FeedBack Form with details, including poem title etc.
Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by emystar on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 02:46:05 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
I'd say this a pretty good discription of it all.
I'll never ever forget those free ways.
Good work.
huggs, smiles,
emy


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by lillyjane on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 05:59:05 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
I agree they are ugly and cause pollution, great poem. xxx


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by faith_my_eyes on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 06:58:12 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
I bet you wrote that on Interstate 5... I hate the "concrete way" out there myself... em


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by Oneir8dude on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 07:11:33 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Nice work Laura,

I feel the same way everytime I see a corn field
being dug up for homes and businesses... pretty
soon we won't have corn to eat or fields to gaze
upon...

Maggots wiggling is a good choice of words to
describe these people who take for granted our
lovely panet...

Thank You Laura

Bill


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by crazyn on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 09:34:18 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Excellently Structured. good context too. well done.


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by shelby on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 02:05:18 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Bravo!! I loved the maggots part awesome!
Yes you can smell it in the air and the smog is awful, I spent most my time at the ocean at least the water is beautiful!! LOL

~Michelle~


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by jerseysue on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 04:06:01 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
This reminds me so much of a song written by Lidifarne. They used the reference to concrete, as multi play doh, Yes we all are doomed to live in concrete jungle I think, with the way this world is going. Thought provoking write. I enjoyed reading it very much. Sue xx


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by suupjordan on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 05:47:46 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
i love your concept here, i have reciently written a poem with this concept also.



Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by one-curly-fry on Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 06:54:20 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
I'm with you - I'm an Environmental student hoping to get into the conservation and education sector.
This world is beautiful - we need to keep what we've got and fix what's on a downhill slope. BTW there's fresh air in many places I've been to across Aust.
Good write and very good point!

- Tim


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by needledancing on Friday, 30th March 2007 @ 01:43:02 PM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
Incredible capture of the city...some love the hustle bustle....being born and raised in TO. I love the small town life. The impersonal city life is a place to get lost. This was great.


Re: City of a Million (User Rating: 1 )
by reprobate on Wednesday, 12th September 2007 @ 02:49:05 AM AEST
(User Info | Send a Message)
{Submit Now!}
You know where my sketch is 'from' and my thoughts regarding cities.
Unfortunately, they are a necessary evil. I just there was a method to impart some semblance of caring unto the denizens that insist on dwelling there. As for air quality, good luck with that. It seems that large corporations are spreading their filth and ignorance by buying up farms and homesteads and then conglomerating them with some pathetic, putrid purpose using the guise of 'supporting' both communities -- rural and urban. I have found that the only thing they support is themselves and their bankaccounts. Ask the mining communities in W.Va. or any of the towns near where a large corporate Pig Farm has started.
Apologies for my rant, it just that I despise the monsters they are and become.
thanks for sharing...




While every care is taken to ensure the general sites content is family safe, our moderators cannot be in all places; all the time. Please report poetry and or comments that are in breach of our site rules HERE (Please include poem title or url). Parents also please ensure that you supervise your children well when they are on the internet; regardless of what a site says about being, or being considered, child-safe.

Poetry is much like a great photo, a single "moment in time" capturing many feelings and emotions. Yet, they are very alive; creating stirrings within the readers who form visual "pictures" of the expressed emotions within the Poem. ©

Opinions expressed in the poetry, comments, forums etc. on this site are not necessarily those of this site, its owners and/or operators; but of the individuals who post items to this site.
Frequently Asked Questions | | | Privacy Policy | | | Contact Webmaster

All submitted items are Copyright © to their submitter. All the rest Copyright © 2002-2050 by Your Poetry Dot Com

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owners.

Script Generation Time: 0.052 Seconds. - View our Site Map | .© your-poetry.com