‘Art Pub’ / ‘City Life’ (2 Poems)

Summary

ART PUB

Art's Bar – a tavern

That serves pizza and beer

With a furbishing of crimson, yellow and gold.

It has a hold on clients that

Bustle like bees and clamor

Of people having a good time.

Behind the door that says

Employees only

Is a world of clinking spoons

And clanging pots.

On this side of the door

I see wrinkled faces like crinkled fries

Along with those who are

Absent of those lines that

Reflect time.

That's Art's Bar – a tavern

That serves pizza and beer

CITY LIFE

We live in a jungle of concrete and steel

Malls that display

What we want, what we think.

But,

No place to sit without the

Sounds of calamity and strife.

Too much investment in the hustle

With no gain in return

Preoccupied with tensions and worries

Of what tomorrow may bring.

It has taken from us,

The precious element of time

That rare gem that takes a

Lifetime to find.