A Lonely House in the Steppe - 2
...A Twist of Fate
Can a single action change destiny’s flow?
A friend called him up just yesterday, you know.
It had been ages since they last met,
Memories stirred, and their hearts were all set...
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Categories:
airstrip, prayer,
Form: Free verse
E-Y-E Rhyme
...CONTROL TOWER No PoWeR FROM-a SNOW SHOWER BlOw hOuR,
AIRPLANE,
InSaNe
PATHWAY,
AsTrAy
BY-WAY
DeCaY
AIRPORT,
DiStOrT
TARMAC,
FaRbAcK
AIRSTRIP,
A-bLiP
BOWER,
ScOuR
STAND...
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Categories:
airstrip, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Amalia's Sea
...the sea is beautiful
rocking
with foamy waves
storm and flightless
The sea was once
her airstrip
hiding the borders
sky's sea and earth
she loved
fly
clouds and wa...
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Categories:
airstrip, love,
Form: Free verse
My Last Las Vegas Ces
...My Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours...
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Categories:
airstrip, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Martha's Animal Logic
...We agree before any trip
Exactly how livestock will ship
But with notice not
Venezuelans got
To the Martha’s Vineyard airstrip
Author's note: Pundits and politicians say Governor DeSantis o...
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Categories:
airstrip, abuse, animal, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick
The Wheat and the Tare
...They crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our q...
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Categories:
airstrip, community, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Narrative
Microlight
...Microlight
When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles
dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene
blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning bree...
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Categories:
airstrip, africa, change, culture, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Rag Bagger With Notes
...__________________ RAG BAGGER
What is a blowboat
which way does the warm wind blow
Im lashed to the mast
GINSU - KNIFE EASTPORT , MAINE USA
Ginsu ...
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Categories:
airstrip, adventure, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
When I Am Broke I Write a Poem
...When I am broke
I write a poem
I make myself the hero
In my poem, nobody can stop me
Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz
Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip
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Categories:
airstrip, analogy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Let's Go To Robotville
...I have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said.
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time
I did not drop my I-pad...
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Categories:
airstrip, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Lust Is a Broken Engine
...Lust is a broken engine,
operating with aviation fuel.
It flies victim up in the skies,
and lands not in airport,
not even in airstrip,
but in the leveled gardens,
of someone’s heart....
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Categories:
airstrip, lust, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Musinga
...From Rusizi in Rwanda
lies a historical site that is linked to the Musinga history,
a palace next to the elegant tree (umuvumu) in the Rukali village
behind the Kamembe Airstrip in Rusizi distri...
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Categories:
airstrip, africa, child, community, cousin,
Form: ABC
Disputation
...It doesn't matter how long
I have been on this ship,
it doesn't matter how long
I have been on this plane,
nor does it matter the time I spend on this road,
looking for solidarity,
It is just ...
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Categories:
airstrip, forgiveness, friend, friendship, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Pip Pip Hurray
...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
teletyped an unripe heliotype. ...
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Categories:
airstrip,
Form: Verse
Sympathy For the Visitors
...though i’ve no sympathy for the “devil”
(as there exists no such thing),
i got to feel that one must have
sympathy for the visitors---
if any self-respecting alien
felt the need to stop their space ...
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Categories:
airstrip, life, universe,
Form: Free verse
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