Poems About: CONCRETE

This shovelling concrete is a bore
I feel tired can't take much more
All this working like a slave
Will ge me an early grave. read more »

Concrete claws challenge the sky
Sacred stairs towards a glazed heaven.
Glass and steel that shimmers
Like statues of gods standing high. read more »

for uncle nestor and auntie helen marchan-alindajao and family
Mandaue City 2002

sight touches bountiful scenes read more »

There is a mall in your town
Were people go just to walk around
Wandering here and wandering there
Spending their money without a care read more »

Moon illuminates
World with silver rays
Make no division
Thatched roof or concrete roof tops read more »

I pound the concrete
Way too wired to sleep;
In just the ecstacy of it all
And the brillant colours of Fall; read more »

Breathe in your oxygen
blink back your tears
before they start asking questions
they just want to interfear read more »

In the middle of this concrete and re-bar jungle teeming with death and life,
I think of you, Cadereyta. This maddening jungle is shocking, choking,
I think of you Cadereyta, I seek escape. read more »

I was flying.
I was sinking.
I was so hungry for life. read more »

Dreaming On a Concrete Stool

I painfully remember the stool under tree,
where we, as newly arrivers to the city, read more »

Rain on tinned roof
Rain on concrete
Rain soaking into sands
Rain on soft earth read more »

Today the circus poster
is scabbing off the concrete wall
and the children have forgotten read more »