Happy National Poetry Month!! All month long we will be bringing you the best poems from our ongoing That's So Miami project, a joint venture with O, Miami Poetry Festival.
While all the submissions are being posted on our Tumblr page, we are curating the best of the content here on our website. Check out a few of our favorite submissions below and give us what you got here.
Leslie Fraser, Twitter:
Magic City
2001 - home value $100,000
2005 - home value $600,000
2010 - home value $75,000
Home equity loan $500,000
#thatssomiami
Jesus Rojas Torres, Orlando, FL:
That’s so Miami, eighteen years of living in the US,
this city has thrown me into mental disarray
making me believe I’m living in America
what a joke,this is not!
crooked attorneys,
failed relationships,
illusory hopes
whether in businesses, studies or love
almost everyone comes
with hidden aspirations or goals
wanna partner with me?
artificial city exhales only pretensions
impression, ostentation
filled with star-struck wannabes
yes, it’s sunny, yes it’s warm
there’s sex and there’s party
what is up Miami?
is that all you’ve got?
show me your spirit
and hurry up
you must grow up!
Lauren Fernandez:
Exciting and Extravagant.
Guajiros in Bentleys.
Tostones and Champagne.
That’s so Miami.
Theresa Bramblett:
Oh, stuck in traffic
Oh, stuck in traffic,
So much for that half-penny,
That’s so Miami.
Leslie Fraser:
80 yo broken hearted man
with a machete in one hand tackled
by FL State Ag Czar as they chop down
his beloved citrus tree. That’s so Miami.
