Superman Comics, Cuban Cigars
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Five-and-Ten, a ‘Mom-and-Pop’
just down the road
Ye olde-fashioned ice cream shoppe
Round the corner a little bit
an old barber’s pole
Enjoy the flavor of candy-cane ...
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Categories:
announcements, america, memory, nostalgia, old,
Form: Rhyme
Out of the Office
...She left me.
I’m getting groceries by myself.
I don’t like it, but I don’t like to starve.
Announcements make me jump.
I want to leave, but need to survive.
My therapist is out of the office.
T...
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Categories:
announcements, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Requiem for Elmer
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*After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in...
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Categories:
announcements, humor, murder,
Form: Narrative
On Appreciation
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Within today's giftee's coup d'etat
Gratitude receives no big hurrah.
A gift was expected
gift cards are accepted
But thank yous are not a rule of law.
Announcements/invitations ...
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Categories:
announcements, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick
Me On a Radio and Megaphone
...Loud announcements on my radio and megaphone
Heard all over the school ground and parking zone-
It’s raining prof drivers, take extra precautions,
Drive slowly on your route, looking in all direc...
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Categories:
announcements, care,
Form: Rhyme
Anthology Sos
...Missed my submission of poem in the first PS anthology
I think I was travelling that time or in a very long journey
Second submission, I think I’ve missed because I was so busy
Perhaps focused on ...
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Categories:
announcements, confusion,
Form: Monorhyme
Night Tour
...Then there is the night
with its backstreets of characters,
masked, intractable, unwilling
to leave the comfort of their
lifelong haunts. They call out
then turn away in fear
of being known.
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Categories:
announcements, journey, night,
Form: Free verse
Shanira and Her Guardian Faerie
...Shanira was standing on her tiptoes on the softest bluebell of all.
As she stretched toward the moon, she felt elongated and tall.
The moon winked his approval and gave her permission to be.
She l...
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Categories:
announcements, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Conversation With a Dumb
...It was in church (I'm Catholic by birth)
We had just finished the main part of the mass
By main I mean the Communion was already over
And we were into announcements
I brought out my phone to chec...
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Categories:
announcements, miracle,
Form: Free verse
The Railway Station
...Neon lights outlined stalls
in braids of red and green
in the dim cavernous hall
of the railway station.
Muted drum taps of passing feet
and crisscross talk were pierced
by stabbing announcemen...
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Categories:
announcements, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Announcements
...a chill breeze
whispers of winter
a squirrel’s tale
a cool fog hovers
a snake lays motionless
awaiting the sun
a bell rings
yellow crusted kid pods
heed its call
September roses
blush...
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Categories:
announcements, autumn, nature, seasons,
Form: Senryu
How Flying Feels
...This is how an airport feels -
Crowded, hot and teeming.
Lines that wrap around and ‘round;
Babes and toddlers screaming.
Masks on every face except
So many noses showing
And no one to remind...
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Categories:
announcements, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Saving Face Campaign
...Nonviolent designers
of Public Service Announcements
Like "STOP"
smoking
shooting up
drinking
trashing
burning
ignoring various morbid diseases
sinning
sundry mental/spiritual pathologie...
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Categories:
announcements, green, health, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse
Epidemic
...The rush of emotion,
The thud of adrenaline,
Amidst the commotion,
Scouting for medicine,
Those who speak, keep others in line,
Patience they say and all will be fine,
Those who seek...
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Categories:
announcements, people,
Form: Rhyme
Didnt Get the Memo
...Public service announcements seem to not work any more.
The stress of our circumstances seem to confirm our righteousness.
We never listen to anybody but we listen to our pity.
We praise and...
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Categories:
announcements, allah, black african american,
Form: Free verse
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