nomadicrhymer

Would like critical feedback regarding rythm, content and emotional responses (if any)

Thanks, Nomad.

New York! the hub
- of exciting pastimes
New York! the pulse
- of fashion & fine wines
Broadway musicals
- fantastic plays!
Those that have both found
- and lost their way
The heartbeat of culture
- come to the Theatre!
Moseying around
- in the Met Museum
Ride the West End Line
- to Coney Island!
A painted lady
- but not so dainty
Strung out
- with sparkling jewels
Strutting strongly
- but smiling gaily
She’s all at once lovely, but
- indulges in a little cruelty
Alight with laughter
- and dining divine
Home to both brilliant
- and mediocre minds
Burrows of ethnic smells and tastes
- separated
In their crowded corners
- clustered with families
Full of love or hate
– laughing or crying
Someone always critically living
- or dying
Depending on the Yankees
- winning or losing

Bustling and bumping - rapid street hawking
Stately, matronly and statuesque buildings
Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Church
Landmarks unending, great trees of Birch
Central Park tours on horse-drawn carriages
The Tavern-on-the-Green has seen many marriages

September 11th memorial in splendid effigy
Many thousands drawn to share the burden of misery
The Irish pub’s always ready to draw you up a pint
Down 5th Avenue, if you play your cards right
Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan
Connected to Long Island and the Staten
Passing by The Lady Liberty on the ferry
Allows you to observe her in all her keen beauty

Times Square for tourists
- astonished mouths open
The naked cowboy
- his guitar strumming
Ten- foot TV screens
- seem bigger than your house
Fast life, lights and action
- that’s what this city’s all about
She’ll hug you
- to her frozen chest
Suffocate you in
- heat that never rests
Derelicts, winos, desperately hoping
- for something, anything!
To take them away from their endless waiting

New York! is our intrepid Mother
Carver of attitudes
Potter’s wheel of fate
Poet, writer, she communicates!
Her splendid tresses curling in the night
Invites you to steep yourself in her delight

© nomadicrhymer