Words about the city

Words for city poems: from the pavement to the skyscraper, from the simit to the neon signs, from the crowd to the quiet of a balcony. In Poetry Game's city theme, every round draws two or three words from this list.

• alley
• apartment
• asphalt
• avenue
• bakery
• balcony
• bench
• bicycle
• billboard
• brick
• bridge
• bus
• cafe
• chimney
• clock
• commute
• concrete
• corner
• crane
• crossroads
• crowd
• district
• escalator
• fountain
• graffiti
• honk
• hurry
• kiosk
• lamppost
• laundry
• light
• map
• market
• metro
• midnight
• museum
• neon
• night
• noise
• office
• park
• pigeon
• queue
• rain
• roof
• rooftop
• rush
• sign
• siren
• skyline
• skyscraper
• square
• stair
• statue
• stop
• street
• taxi
• ticket
• tower
• traffic
• tram
• tunnel
• turnstile
• vendor
• window

You can use these words on your own too, as a writing exercise: pick three of them, set a five-minute timer and write four lines that use them all.