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Poems by Culture

Chinese

We Stand on a Lofty Peak, Sonnet Sixteen

by Feng Zhi
Side by side on a lofty peak...More ...

Taipei 101

by Luo Chiao Wei
This gigantic spear, piercing the heart of the earth...More ...

Night in Taipei

by Ji Xian
There is a touch of autumn chill this summer night...More ...

Let Spring Start from Kaohsiung

by Yu Kwang-chung
Let spring start from Kaohsiung City...More ...

Black Map

by Bei Dao
in the end, cold crows piece together... More ...

City Life

by Wang Qian
Occasionally,... More ...
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American

The City

by Grace Cavalieri
This is an occupied country, this city,...More ...

Swamp

by Kim Roberts
The Lincoln sinks into the Potomac... More ...

Seventh Street

by Jean Toomer
Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,...More ...

Émigré

by W.S. Merwin
You will find it is... More ...

The Corner of Hester and Mulberry

by Davi Walders
Just before Thanksgiving. An odd,... More ...

A New-Fashioned Song

by Traci O'Dea
No more walks in the ‘hood...More ...
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German

Blackout

from Vanja Simeonova
The city is having a heart attack...More ...

migrants exchange market

by Martina Sens
Change past... More ...

The Magic of Cities

by Claudia Siemon
Not always... More ...

In Transit

by Matthias Kneip
When a foreigner... More ...

unfamiliar city

from Silvia Wendt
I love to be...More ...

Arrival

by Ingrid Schulz
get aboard... More ...