Your Original Poems, Inspired by Queens

National Poetry Month inspired many of our listeners to take our #NYcityverse poetry challenge, in which we asked you to send in your best, original, tweet-length poems inspired by each of the boroughs.

Week One was the Bronx, Week Two was Brooklyn, Week Three was Staten Island, and Week Four was Manhattan. Read some submissions for Week Five — Queens — below.

And you can see all submissions on Twitter with the hashtag #NYcityverse.

With one inhale in Queens, I exhale the world. #NYcityverse

— Nell Becker (@nellcherrybloss) April 24, 2017

We hide from the rest of the city, in the shade of a cherry blossom, eating falafel. #NYcityverse

— Nell Becker (@nellcherrybloss) April 24, 2017

The biggest borough
And most diverse. We’ve more tongues
Than the whole wide world#NYcityverse #queens

— saradani (@saradani) April 24, 2017

ten square blocks of JH and you'll fall into momos, samosas, pakoras, empanadas, arepas, gyoza, falafels, jugos, jugos, jugos #NYcityverse

— KC Trommer (@kctrommer) April 25, 2017

Dumplings in Flushing
Then to Elmhurst for Thai feast
Where should we eat next?#BangBang#QueensHaiku#NYCityVerse https://t.co/Dc73M7DXoW

— Richard Yeh (@ryeh) 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

take me out to the banchan
where 7s roam, young & grown
take their blue & orange on the chin
Moses ain't got nothin on you kid #NYcityverse

— chiara di lello (@thetinydynamo) April 24, 2017

We met sun to circumference,
U-N-I sphered reverence;
oh to sup from such silvercup feted!
Come quench the thirst you created.#nycityverse

— Wyman Meers (@Why_Man52) April 24, 2017

Here in Bayside Queens
I walk to work every day
Pleasing tree-lined streets#NYcityverse

— Lisa★Mertz (@lisamertz) April 24, 2017

Crossing Queens Blvd.
Dare I? Can I?
Now?
Go! #NYcityverse

— Jen Rogers-Brown (@JenRogersPhD) April 24, 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

To see all of Queens you must:

Fly from LaGuardia, due east

&

Fly into JFK, from the west

& then

Take the subway home#NYcityverse

— Justin Muschong 🌹 (@JustinMuschong) April 21, 2017

"queens haiku" sittin on the F/nobody's speakin english/pretty freakin cool #NYcityverse

— Rich Alexandro (@RichAlexandro) April 21, 2017