Best Hijacks Poems

We are facing the sunset, in the afternoon light,
while shadows stretch eastward over the hills.
Music selected from the radio waves
has blinded my senses in reverie's...

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Call me in the morning

Preferably 3am

When the world is quiet, your mind cloudy

Your soul is a double agent

He hijacks your body

He tells me all of...

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Being in the NOW

This is a simple secret of happiness. It is so simple, that one may wonder, “How something like ‘Being in the NOW’...

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The dull drip, drip, drip of thick, blackened blood pours
into the veins that beat a path to my heart,
with each feeble pulse, bit by bit,...

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Rainy weather
Unpredictable;
Drenching everything

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Mother and child
Dance with drizzle;
Laughter and giggles

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Happy lives here
In my house;
A welcome guest

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Chinese ghost festival
Lunar seventh month;
Wandering spirits tour

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Prayers and offerings
For dead ancestors;
Win-win...

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Tell thrilling tales
Spell sparkling sales


Hate hijacks heart
Ask anxious art


Dreary doom darts
Soul stakes sure start


Charm crimson cheer
Free fleeting fears


Mindset makes mood
Glimpse gracious good


Sense succinct soul
Wonder works...

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Corona is grabbing the headlines

Threatening like receding hairline

Attacks the lungs and spreads like a pandemic

Hijacks the cells and multiplies like an epidemic

 

He is called...

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Rest and watch
Bird focus sharp;
Wonder excites

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Wide angle worldview
Venice sojourn;
Latte pit stop

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Sad white wine
Full yet empty;
Story incomplete

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Joy comes again
Hurl of fond fest;
Jest claims wit

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Here and now
Pain...

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Festive party
Celebrate something;
Warm humanity

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One by one
People walk pass;
Lonely man waits

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Dog walking fast
Master in tow;
Barks fine command

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Two sparrows
Practice on wood bench;
Gospel of birdsong

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Sea of faces
Hurry takes...

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Dawn comes swiftly
Eyes shocked awake;
Sunlight dazzles


Weary body
Sleep does not come;
Rest fatigue hijacks


Another day dawns
Celebrate now;
Tomorrow looks vague


Overtime work
Pulse of earthly stuff;
Promises to keep


Old friend calls
Buzz...

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I fly wide-eyed into the glinting night, 
Along valleys with man-made stars aglow. 
Thrills and sorrows on both sides line my flight, 
Neon rivers flow...

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Creativity emerges with two wings,
One aids her flying.
The other like a sting,
That aids her on intuity piercing.
But she looses her wings,
Left with one but nothing.

Music...

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Doubt inflicts a pain lonely hearts bear,
facing truths you wish would disappear.
You realize fate isn't always fair,
dredging up memories steeped in fear.

Rejection hijacks feelings of...

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The in-store music is country-slow,
the vibes twangy.
I pick through the tack and tinsel,
dig for rough diamonds.
Squeezing past other consumers,
sharp showers of oven scourers.
A toilet brush,...

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Pain wears a face
In awkward trace


Pain hijacks feel
As hurts now grill


Pain comes to show
In teary flow


Pain stabs and cuts
Beyond mere gut


Pain follows pain
To hurt again




Leon...

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