Best Double Time Poems
...A night in Venice (in sotto voce)
Moonlight shimmers over the Adriatic sea
Stars dancing on the waves in perfect symmetry
We talk of ancient adventure and gallantry
Masquerading dancers beg......
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Categories:
double time, desire, night, passion, romantic,
Form:
Terza Rima
...MY SPIRIT SINGS
Almond eyes speak: "Take me home please--
bonnie green fields where I may wander,
chasing butterflies and darting dragonflies
dear......
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Categories:
double time, bible, celebration, god, joy,
Form:
Abecedarian
...Very loosely based on Robert Palmer’s song Addicted To Love – I understand the lyric is often mis-quoted hence the title.
The lights are on, were both at home
Your todger has a mind of its own
Our h......
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Categories:
double time, sexy, song,
Form:
Lyric
...Hearts hurting, whatever this is ain’t working,
your pride’s always gunna come first and
looks like I'm finally learning
Never once crossing your mind,
my feelings hurting double time,
you......
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Categories:
double time, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love
Form:
...When she was only one, standing beside the couch,
heard the music's beat and began to dance about.
At nine, in ballet, she impressed us with her grace,
tap danced as if born to it, jitterbugged ......
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Categories:
double time, dance, journey, joy, life,
Form:
Couplet
...Some sez m a loss caz, I contain ta many flaz
Just becaz m not subjec to ya lawz.
Lizen t ma speech, m hear ta preach
Ma wordz, well byond ya reach
Wot ya hearan iz more than a screech
U tink ya to......
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Categories:
double time, discrimination, emotions, feelings, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
...I know it, I'm a bit more than broken
I wish I could be more in your face
instead, I hide behind nice
away there in a corner by myself
I want to be seen
I want to be loved
Even though I don't ......
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Categories:
double time, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
...cat, dog, food, humor, mom, pain, summer,
I tripped over feet
My shoe laces both came undone
Slid in my 'spilled' milk
Cut my finger on broke glass
My blood now was mixed in milk!
I sat ......
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Categories:
double time, cat, dog, food, humor,
Form:
Tanka
...Her cognition is sporadic
Longing for her to relax
And display calm tactics
Lay on my chest like it’s a hammock
When she isn't calm
I can't stand it
Cause behaviors like these in women
Can eas......
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Categories:
double time, beauty, blessing, crush, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
...Boring summer
Idle time and
Empty streets
Endless days
Watching cars
And spinning dreams.
Sitting
Feet on the ground
Looking down
For something to see
Music drifting
Through open windows
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Categories:
double time, lifeme, old, me, old,
Form:
Narrative
...Striding into the snowy fortress my tepid heart at double time
paces
Entering a pine colonnade sprouting a wintry mane, saddled with
velvety laces
Cloaked with icy needles forming a brittle......
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Categories:
double time, adventure, animals, nature, placesheart,
Form:
Rhyme
...
My D.I.
Written: By Tom Wright
3-16-2008
I’ll say when you eat & I’ll say when you sleep
And from your recruit mouth I’ll hear not a peep
You’ll visit our barber and get an Army issu......
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Categories:
double time, bullying, military,
Form:
Couplet
...EVERYBODY WRITES A BOOK
They write a script,
A poem on quips,
A paragraph,
A typed last draft,
He wrote a play,
She wrote today,
They wrote together,
A score that's clever.
It takes ti......
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Categories:
double time, books, dance, music, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
...From the killing fields of pain
Into a steady, melancholy rain
Physically exhausted, mentally drained
Conscience with dross of war stained
Structured existence of automaton gone
Into freelancing......
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Categories:
double time, depression, war,
Form:
Rhyme
...The majority of the following poem was
lost forever, except for a portion recalled
by the author's lady friend, many years after
his untimely death. I will post the recollections
of Mrs. Shew-H......
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Categories:
double time, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme