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People Watching
Selected by UrbanCrow
Description

Poets are skilled at catching glimpses and images of people. In these poems, the poet is "people watching" so to speak.
Synopsis

Images that capture the human spirit and psyche.
 
Poetry
I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson
Madam and the Phone Bill by Langston Hughes
maggie and milly and molly and may by E. E. Cummings
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls by E. E. Cummings
I am the People, the Mob by Carl Sandburg
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio by Carl Sandburg
Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
To Elsie by William Carlos Williams
Listening to jazz now by Jimmy Santiago Baca
What is Broken is What God Blesses by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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