A Second For Us All
...In buses, on bikes, as passengers in Ubers
Faces blur and deeds collide.
Sprint down streets, stuck behind the slow,
always in passing I see stories unfold.
Quick check behind in case of cars,
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Categories:
beeped, car, uplifting, urban,
Form: Free verse
PROTECTOR NOT PROTESTER
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We attended a peaceful protest yesterday…but that word protest…I must reject it…
because, in our minds, we are not protesting our American Democracy…
we are trying to protect it.
Standing on t...
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Categories:
beeped, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to the Three-Minute Poem Plop
...In the study, bright and sunny,
I thought I'd try something funny.
Three minutes, that's all I need I cried,
As I set my timer, pen and paper aside.
I brewed my thoughts, to nice and hot,
Clic...
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Categories:
beeped, food, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
It was a throwaway
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The cursor blinked as I thought about my response
See in my head it made sense
You get none of the chances of being stabbed in the back plus the added bonus of not having to buy a round
I know...
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Categories:
beeped, poems,
Form: Free verse
Arguing With Inanimate Objects
...Arguing with inanimate objects
Can be very distressing
To them
My Roomba drove itself down the stairs
The Keurig switched to decaf
Alexa told me where to go
Siri filed for a restraining order...
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Categories:
beeped, humor, technology,
Form: Free verse
Mum, Do You Know the Postcode For Warwick Castle
...mum said she needed a stiff drink
me, at the wheel,
closing my eyes and actually praying
a rented car, a wide car
narrow roads
tractors and horses
getting my brexercise
not knowing how t...
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Categories:
beeped, car, cat,
Form: Free verse
Live In Happiness
...Happiness, something we all yearn for. It can come at any given time of the day, and sometimes it can come when least expected. But if you really want to live a life of happiness, more times than not...
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Categories:
beeped, happiness,
Form: Haibun
My Watch
...It’s Sunday morning, my watch shows that it’s 33° and 5:58 am. Surprisingly, half of us are up and motile. My excuse is that I’m scheduled to volunteer at the hospital this morning.
Leong just came...
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Categories:
beeped, boyfriend, music, relationship, school,
Form: Free verse
Space Buggy
...They built an A.T.V.
and sent it to Ganymede.
It was programmed to go
here and there.
Time passed,
NASA diminished,
there were staff depletions.
The unit sensed
that it had been abandoned...
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Categories:
beeped, poetry,
Form: Free verse
30 Best Minutes
...She was born and cried for her daddy
I was there to hold her in my arms
She gurgled, with a slight giggle
My heart dropped right then
At goo goo, she hand me in her hands
I can surely say, witho...
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Categories:
beeped, abortion, absence, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
30 Best Minutes
...30 Best Minutes
She was born and cried for her daddy
I was there to hold her in my arms
She gurgled, with a slight giggle
My heart dropped right then
At goo goo, she had me in her hands
I c...
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Categories:
beeped, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Had a Dream
...I had a dream, a pleasant dream,
A dream in which was only peace…
No wars, no hate, no crime, no tears,
Only peace each day for men.
All evil ways were cast away
And only good deeds did man...
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Categories:
beeped, dream,
Form: Free verse
The Last Call
...Hectic day, the device beeped incessantly:
Salient, superficial, attended all, not to skip,
the vital from the plethora of logs.
Voices buzzed interminably : known, alien,
the bulk superfi...
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Categories:
beeped, absence, angst, anxiety, character,
Form: Elegy
Dumbstruck-Dk
...Example for my contest.
DUMBSTRUCK-DK
I drove past this girl...on Sunset & Vine
I couldn't see her face...so I beeped at her behind
When she turned around...I nearly hit a caravan
Becau...
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Categories:
beeped, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Appointment Lady
...Had to get some blood work
As my doctor did demand
So I walked up to the lab
With my appointment in my hand.
A few were there before me
As we checked in one by one.
They would text when they ...
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Categories:
beeped, today,
Form: Rhyme
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