Best Big Ideas Poems

BIG IDEAS


UNG!!!!  Fire was the big idea
Flaming Woolly Mammoth on a hot stick

OHH!!   The wheel was the big idea
Woolly Mammoth are heavy

Caves...

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SUCH BIG IDEAS

White man lies.
He is just a crack among the flies.
He is not blowing any minds.
He must know that the lives he contradicts despise...

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Mend the life set before me--
                   ...

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Ever wonder where big ideas come from?

Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly, 
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted...

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The Martin family lived in a rented house across from us,
and some of the kids were forced to sleep in a converted bus.
There were thirteen...

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Bring back the astute listeners
to old rooms with fireplace smoke.
Ears open and widening hope
Big ideas going for broke.

Bring back the wise travelers
with their wild gestures...

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Make a list of objects worthy of merit
They must sparkle in the dark
Glow in the light of day
And cost you your life if lost

No diamonds...

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I Pity the Poor Protester 
as he tries to make his case 
discredited at every turn 
by the ones who run this place 
now he’s...

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THE INVISIBLE BAN

I’ve known so many men who’ve left and I prayed they’d never come back
And then there is this one dude who left the...

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He wasn't such a bright kid,
big ideas filled his head...
my advice was always useless,
see him now in his madness!


He thought he was a genius,
flashing hundred...

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Little moments; big ideas; grand schemes and flops!
Intimacies shared; secrets held; pennies saved in a box.
Friends laughing; enemies kept close; bills; brooms and Mops.
Every breath...

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"Candy Rock"



"Suck on my brain
like a lollipop,
fond regards"
she says,

"hard as 
Candy Rock"

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)

“Nude” / Radiohead
https://youtu.be/7XBXl1jWSnY



“You paint yourself white
and fill up with noise
but there’ll be...

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and you register with all the temp agencies that you can,
because there are no permanent jobs anymore---
there may have been when you started working at...

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Dreaming lovely dreams
Hatching big ideas
Just working the plan
Late nights and early mornings
The entrepreneur for sure...

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We were tight — we were thick as thieves 
Only we didn’t quite know it then 
Isn’t it true that a friend in need
Is your...

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