Best Arcade Poems

viscera wound tighter
   than the tightest rubber ball
   never mind bouncing off the walls
   guts like a pinball machine
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the light breeze
   cooled the morning sun
daytrip Venice
            had begun
vantage views
 ...

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    "Pinball Wizard"



strange sounds hypnotize from an ARCADE
challenging me to a dual escapade
silver balls wait in line
for fingers to opine
female transforms to...

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Delight and laughter are your stock and trade,
With rhyme you carry our worries away,
You’re much more fun than a penny arcade.
Words sparkle like an egg...

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Behold the lit splendor of an arcade

that bleeds her copper shawl, its final glow

awaiting dusk to grasp last flares of blade,

when decimal of time changes...

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Here is my dreamiest, dream job.
I will get to drive a fire truck and use the sirens - all the way to work and back....

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Shining like a golden beacon 
in the early morning sun
a joyous place to take a stroll
where everyone is having fun

Meandering down the decking
opens up spectacular...

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The Fairground
 
I remember the fairground when I was a child, there
was the candy Fairy Floss machines, and you could 
See them spinning the spider...

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was sitting in a crowd but felt so all alone
No communication, everyone staring at their phone
I just wanted to return to the life that I...

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The day was short and I was tall,
oops, got that backwards after my fall,
for I was mixed up and worried,  befuddled I say
on this...

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Shana Aubrey Harris – 
 whose existence begat by dada and da mama; aye
revel your bursting at figurative seams viz maturation, and know by
chatting over...

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 A pair of tiny orphans
in haystacks their mother made,
near an orchard by a lake,
with pine tall as an arcade.

Sheltering them,I brought milk
to the lonely...

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Sun wakes up
                      ...

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“Warrior” 

When the Argonauts, came across 
the abandoned Starship, they 
found within the wrecked 
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message. 
It took several attempts...

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I remember waking up to the melodious sound of my mother singing happy birthday,
the aroma of bacon and pancakes wandering through the hall, invading my...

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