Best Dial Poems

Friends don't let friends drunk dial
or drunk text
for some reason when alcohol mixes into the bloodstream
it is like a "hit or miss"
some people get drunk or tipsy and want to fight and talk s%*#!
others have a sip of liquor or beer and everybody they encounter...

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THE SPIRIT OF THE SUN DIAL

I tell the sunny hours throughout the day
From dawn til dusk imparting my fair message
Evoking warmth and love throughout the day
No time for shadows hinting at dark presage

But when the shade of night engulfs my dial
A darkening of spirit, life...

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Yes, the topic we have for today
( We are on a ten second delay.)
would most surely be me!
Where would all of you be?
If I do not run down or nay say?...

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I can't seem to hear the dial on this broken telephone, 
staring back at the brick walls in this greco home, 
The tone becomes ominous the further i progress,
the depths of a broken soul from all those experiences before, 
another memory comes back to haunt...

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No dial tone to dote on
My memory is made
And my format is filthy
The tone is tempting
But the pause is pressing
My volume is voiceless
And the channels are changing
And a constricting clasp on cancel
Is my only option...

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Two clouds hugged the sun
Sinking on the horizon
Slipping day now done.



15.12.2020
HI-KU (2)
Brian Strand....

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Don’t take me for granted and don’t leave me alone,
Because maybe when you call next time I won’t be at home,
At home,
You should’ve known,
You set yourself up for the dial tone,
Dial tone,

I’ve been used,
I’ve been battered and bruised,
But when it comes down to it, 
I’m...

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I  only tell of sunny hours...
 where rays of warmth embrace the flowers
 or melt the snow laying upon the lawn;
but these momentary shadows creep quietly soured
 casting light between the trees and fawns
 while industrious humanity, creation's spawn
is blinded to nature's rhythmic song
...

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Willie in his 80s now
hadn’t made sense in years.
His wife understood his 
grunts from the recliner
where she propped him up 
till bedtime where snoring 
was music in the night.

His grandson told neighbors
Gramps had Old-Timer’s Disease,
an excellent diagnosis
with which doctors agreed.
It was time to move Gramps...

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They set their clocks by flower petal
As they open or close-
Bethlehem Star,Sowthistle
Julap,Field Marigold
or scented Evening primrose...

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fresh and new I choose
dialed back veneer new view
dial it back when

the hands of times send
myself back into the grace
life in heaven space

live new in mom's womb
to beginnings before back 
before now way back 


5/2/19
Dial It Back Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy...

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The Dial-a-Ride crew are here for you,
ready with a smile we go the extra mile,
take you door to door - who could ask for more ?
We take your wheelchair for no extra fare,
£3 each way is all you pay,
so you can afford to come on...

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The dial of time is eternal,
Its cogs never rusting,
Never cracking,
And never giving in.
For time is with all things,
Either in space or
In the cytoplasm of our cells,
Time is there.
However,
Is reality as strong as time?
Is it unyielding
 or does it let some things slip through the cracks?

Reality...

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Yo, wake up, Van!
Brother, you’ve been asleep for a good long while
Things sure have changed a lot;
reality took a dark turn,
being so boorishly bad is fashionably back in style
Like a rip in time,
Van, your thug gangsta days 
is now ancient crime
Whatcha did, and whatcha wanna...

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The Clock

dial bright-white
imposed with
bold-black numbers

scored sounding
repetitive

like 1-2, 1-2, 1-2
or
tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

dial colors
contrasted

tick-tock sounds
perfect precision.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
August 16, 2018 (Imagism)...

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