Neon Nights



Psychedellic nights
Filled with neon lights
Street gangs and hookers
And curious lookers
The cops on the beat
And the people of the street
The young and the old
The strange and the bold
They disappear at dawn
But it won't be for long
For when the sun sets again
The activities will begin
For the people of the night
Beneath the neon lights.

About this poem

Originally submitted in 2006. Still one of my favorites.

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Written on April 09, 1985

Submitted by chriss.44537 on April 20, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDDEFGHIA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 341
Words 65
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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