Best False Alarm Poems

You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your...

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Picture it. 
		3:00 AM 
Niagara Falls, Canada
We are rudely awakened
by an intermittent buzzing
      	 very loud
irritating, nerve grating.
“What is that?”...

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Petrachan {Italian} Sonnet

A crash of thunder flashes through the night
while streaks of light illume the dreamer's farm.
He lies in slumber, not aware of harm,
fatigued from...

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shrill siren eye rolls 
           no one heeds
      the car...

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Falsehood reduces the number of pages from the bible
originality through many lips comes out hyped or feeble.

Mouth, linking to ears like a poisonous drug
and for...

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wrote this one in the hospital when I was admitted because of 'aneurysm-false-alarm-
thing'.

Lying on my bed in the heart of the dark,
Listening to the croaking...

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We flip through one hundred and eighteen glossy pages of magazine people.
None we know.
Wait!  Was that Dean Martin?
A throwback to the 60’s.
False alarm. ...

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Aye, let me say
It's not what ya think bout me,
For I'll always be that, just me!

Holler if ya want to,
I'm not listening,
For I'm not tuned...

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Whom should I compare her to! I look around
I think a lot, but I find none
She is my god~  ~  ~ ~my small...

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Crawl out of your peeping hole 
and face me like a man
You have been hiding for years
and paying people to do your sordid scam
For years...

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Though east is east and west is west, 
each corner lawyers will infest,
and one thing they’ll deploy with zest:
notorious, the “but for” test.

You want to...

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Recalled by failure
As if prank of false alarm
Zero to hero...

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"IT'S ALIVE"---The cry came from the hall
Which echoed off the gray stone walls
Then spilled beyond the castle grounds
Thus, rang through streets and filled the town

And...

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Characters on a page
squiggles, but meaningful ones
on the page.
Shuffle those around and put them on the page.
Shuffle them around and try again.
Think about them. 
Shuffle...

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Today is not a good day for you
and this makes me sad
because I feel for you in my heart
this makes me feel bad

Just come to...

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