Best High Gear Poems

(1.)  Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series

Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard

At the start comes just a solitary word
oft from a distant echo, it is heard.
Imagination steps on into high gear
through deep, overcast clouds all is not clear
yet as...

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Its easy to become what you fear..
                 Could bring you down,or shift you into high gear

             ...

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Can't Walk Away


Oh, this obsession, and the need
     to reach that high once I've begun;
so hard to stop, can't walk away
     till this addiction's had its run.

Oh, please, you know I cannot stop,
    ...

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Fueling Autumn's color change each year
are shorter days and cooler, longer nights,
and a plucky October breeze that bites.
Vermilion, crimson, and scarlet appear
as emerald canopies disappear.
And Jack Frost glints under the Northern Lights;
fueling Autumn's color change.

As though pulled by strings of a puppeteer
leaves dance, one of...

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My memory is like an ill-tempered old car
that refuses to start
on cold, miserable mornings...
or sometimes stutters
and shudders to life
in fits and starts with rattling parts

Names and faces of those behind me
shrouded and clouded in thick exhaust fumes
'til memory resumes and smoke starts to clear
...oh, what...

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You can be my hubcap if you let me be your wheel.
The love I have for somebody like you is real.
I can give you plenty of loving.  I aim to please.
I will be your radiator if you will be my antifreeze.
You are so attractive...

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A very touching version of Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. A warm tribute to all dispatchers & police officers everywhere.

T’was the night before Christmas, and all throughout comm.
We sat at our consoles, expecting it calm

the Dispatchers with their headsets, the CAD in high...

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    "A David for David"



investigated strange events from week to week
paranormal phenomena brought great fear
science fiction challenges while theories peak
as Fox Mulder, The X-Files lept into high gear.

a graduate of Yale, David Duchovny 
received doctorate for his poetry.

"Magic and Tech in Poetry...

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Mom and dad tried to raise us kids right,
tucked us into bed early each night,
taught us we should always say a prayer,
because the devil lurked everywhere...

That the Good Lord would keep us safe,
no matter what problems we faced,
that He'd watch over us from above,
that a...

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THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there forever its time for him to go 
Against good advice I’ve decided to handle
A run...

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Luck Rides a Stick Horse
By Tom Wright

If good luck is what you're counting on
A stick horse will always be your steed.
Choose God and a job to rely on instead
Not Casino's or lottery to fill your need.

You can tell yourself that someone
Always wins and it just...

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My country's media tells me there's a man with nuclear weapons over in Iran that I really need to fear.

The new Boogeyman in the sand is bad as Stalin, guilty as Hitler, named  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I've never met the dude but they say he's crude...

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She tore me apart
under a rockabilly sunset;
Set me free from the 
sway of pop culture jive
with her bass-line booty. 
She smelled like gasoline, 
tasted like cherries, 
and made my heart rumble like a .454 
And she knew she had me,
when she dropped her hair 
outta...

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The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few more feet and we will be there." 
Says my brother, older...

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Form: Monorhyme
Indigos, light workers, empaths are hear
Struggling to change the errors of yesteryear

Power, money, corruption and greed
Will no longer be the motive that leads

The 60's, the freedom, they tried with defiance
The ones in power had them silenced

Like darwins theory of evolution
We are born for the...

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