Best Default Poems

As we rode through a fog, my father and I,
the car we were in, seemed to know its way home
Hands on the wheel, without eyes on the road

We were numb from the cold.  No words left to say ....

We had prayed through the night...

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Nothing was wrong with the leap;
It was made according to plan,
but the design was interrupted
by the abruptness of the plunge.
Maybe… there was a change of heart
somewhere in midair.
It is marked by a yelp of despair.
The sound of his pain bounces like a jax ball
from the...

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The default fault line

If you can’t accept responsibility place blame.

11/21/2016...

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In default of,….
Stern reprimands are uncles to say for china mouths.
China would being force to say uncles and then fall.
In default of laws are china tyrants’ hearts.
Entire ways in depth are china loves with stunts. They are nasty nice.
Going into details all are china hegemony...

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O to live life in relentless outreach
And still stay put, stagnant, nowhere to reach,
To struggle hard, getting not so in hand,
To feign busy as if a butterfly,
Or a productive bee nevertheless,
O to say thoughtless yes in place of no, 
To make hurried choices on onward...

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Politicians ready to bet
Will play with the national debt
They think they control
How the dice will roll
But may cause a gambler’s regret


Authors note: Last time this happened, the Federal Government shut down and stopped making payments to its employees. The air traffic controllers who were working...

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By default it began
By default it commenced
In error, but ignored
Uniformed but never really significant
Watching as it falls
As it fails and resists
Pushing against the static wall
Refusing any obligatory responses
Eyes blackened out
     Sight evolved beyond recognition
Suddenly seeing all
     All...

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If nothing can be done
—do nothing

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)...

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Far from the din of madding crowd,
Away from the bustle of city life
I withdrew into a solitary spot,
To turn my thoughts into dazzling verse.
Shelley and Shakespeare came in view,
Emily and Eliot fell in line,
Their verses ringing loud and clear,
Their energy fanning fire within

I dreamt of...

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You lose by default
When you do not try
What are you going to do?
When your life passes you by
Just get at it
Be willing to take action
Open up your mind
Fulfill your obligation...

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My Dad always used to say

Better to win honestly and
with integrity in tact

Than by default 

Because your competition was
having a bad or off day

A hollow victory is still a victory
to some, it still gets your name
engraved on the trophy

Champion elect for the year...

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If you choose default,
who's to blame, at fault,
when fault lines fail?
Is it He/She or Me?...

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Right here, right now, every day of my life, 
I return to nothing at all,
Back to the place of four walls and a chair, 
Back to a lifestyle default,

Where I can hear the voice whisper to me, 
Close my eyes and see the voice dance,
Where...

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Nothing hurts more
than the blunted arrow
the grazing punch,
the half-slur.
Insinuation
from a sibilant slander 
whispered to a sleeping cat
haunts many ears.

She was a woman dammed to be
a love for me. My curse
was to desire her.
We were a cage-fight for passions
yet in the end
no one was hailed a...

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Government May Default

By Elton Camp

I admit that the details are far from clear
But I don’t like what it is that I now hear

If the U.S. cannot pay what it does owe
Then into a tailspin the economy will go

How about all of those highly paid folk
Some...

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