Your #NYcityverse Poems About the Five Boroughs

April was National Poetry Month, and WNYC challenged listeners to write tweet-length, original poems about the five boroughs.

Here, in no particular order, are some of our favorites. Listen above to hear the poets themselves read their submissions. And check out all of the poems on Twitter, using #NYcityverse.

Manhattan:
Man That Cannot be mine.
Skyline, ground-bound i adore
You:
too Brilliant to be held, so Brilliant to behold! #nycityverse

— Wyman Meers (@Why_Man52) April 20, 2017

@WNYC Oh Brooklyn, please make me some stuff,
Handmade licorice, artisanal fluff.
Drowning in twee loveliness,
I think that's enough.#NYcityverse

— Chris Falcinelli (@ChrisFalcinelli) April 13, 2017

#NYcityverse

you clearly
missed it
this ain’t no
piano district @thelitbar
¡home grown!
~bronx ~

shoo flies
go “discover”
elsewhere

— Emmanuel Garcia-Lesy (@ManiScience) April 7, 2017

A Staten Island haiku for @BrianLehrer
(am not a poet!):

Remember: us girls
on Victory Boulevard
golf course sledding, free#NYCityVerse

— Rachel Lyon (@manateesintrees) April 14, 2017

Jackson Heights, where/⁰no one thinks it odd/⁰for Southern Baptists⁰/to worship Sundays/in the synagogue/that once was Sizzlers #NYcityverse

— Richard J Newman (@richardjnewman) April 24, 2017

#NYcityverse

Woman on the R Train

Pink lipstick kisses the folds
of her coral pink hijab. Her lips match, exactly.

— Safia Jama (@safiaPOET) April 24, 2017