Spring In an NYC Tourist Area, a Haiku

Posted on by P. A. Harper

Image by Frank Nürnberger from Pixabay

I wrote Spring In an NYC Tourist Neighborhood last Spring. I live in one of the most popular tourist areas in Brooklyn. Due to a lack of city planning and greed, the area has quite a few more issues than other neighborhoods. One of my favorite ways to deal with stress is humor. I hope you enjoy my poem.

Spring In an NYC Tourist Neighborhood

Snow melts from trash heaps,
Seven AM truck Alarm Beeps,
Tourists erupt from the trains.

If you love Haiku and want more, check out The Day to Day Haiku Project.

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And here’s a link to my poem Pink Bike.

Pink Bike, a Poem

Posted on by P. A. Harper
Pink Bike

The following is a short poem I wrote when I got my first bike. It’s an old poem, but one I still love.

Pink Bike

Cute princess bike, last one in the store,
Cheap bright pink paint,
Plastic streamers sprouting from the handlebars,
Banana seat with cartoon flowers,

Rode as fast as I could downhill,
Wind in my face, hands in the air,
Hit a pothole,
Wrecked it,
Skinned my knee,
Scraped the pink paint,
Smiled.