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Best Detectors Poems

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Premium Member Hypocrisy Democracy and the Seven Day Weekend
We have fences around homes...
locks on doors
bars across windows
video cameras-
motion detectors
and panic rooms.
To protect the only sanctuary that we have.
Even heaven has a vetting gate...

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Categories: detectors, america, corruption, rap, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gun Shy
If guns don’t kill people 
Why are so many people dead
Another moms child 
shot in the head
Blackboards white chalk
splattered in Red
A teacher killed
For something she...

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Categories: detectors, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand...

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Categories: detectors, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
Sunset
The ripples flow steadily then flutter away
The illusion of an impossible feat
The Earth consumes the sun at the end of the day
A beautiful sight, a...

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Categories: detectors, lost loveearth, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Empyreal Heart and Soul
O Nebulae of Heart and Soul!
In infrared portrayal WISE,
your colors grace the stellar skies.
Have you a core celestial role?

Supernal presences you seem
that steal one’s fancy...

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Categories: detectors, allusion, heart, inspiration, love,
Form: Ekphrasis



Monster Scare
Frank N. Stein began to whine,
  He has been accused of awful crime,
     Scaring little kids in their bed,
Setting off...

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Categories: detectors, children, funny,
Form: Limerick
Everything of Yours Must Go Now, Even If It Burns
I write about my ex a lot,
we didn't talk much, but our tongues touched,
we used to have sex a lot and 
it was so hot...

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© Pippi B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detectors, break up,
Form: Free verse
Ricky Fontaine
I'm living in the moment & you're looking for forever, I'm being the best worse me, I am way too clever, I can lap you...

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Categories: detectors, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form: Narrative
The Deafening Silence
There is an explosion in all of us, we try to keep hidden away
But when we decide to get even, everybody must pay
There are so...

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Categories: detectors, social, song-urban, people, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Data
Sometimes I feel like Data
     an android
     an autist
     binary and metal
 ...

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Categories: detectors, humanity, science fiction, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anything Goes -- 2020 Election Version
(Updated in such form that Cole Porter would sue)
 
[Intro]

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since Nixon got the shock 
When he crashed on...

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Categories: detectors, corruption, humor, integrity, satire,
Form: Lyric
Frank N Stein
Frank N. Stein began to whine,
    He'd been accused of awful crime,
      Scaring little kids in their...

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Categories: detectors, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Arcangelic Takeover
Archangelic takeover
of heart.

Mass marketing concepts of
“The New Spiritual Awareness”

Stolen secrets
 of the sweat
  the sundance
   Halau 

Arum Wanders
and Ghost dancers 

Dreamers who...

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Categories: detectors, lifelife, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snazziest Wheels In Town
The very first automobile that I ever owned,
Was a 1937 Ford sedan that was many times preowned!
I bought it when I was a junior in...

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Categories: detectors, funny, teen, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Taking Chances
Time it passes without any warning
I remember when I had a lot of hair
In a flash the hair is all gone
It isn’t much any more
It’s...

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Categories: detectors, introspection, people, philosophy, life,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs