Best In Real Time Poems

...genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and ......

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...Little Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to  see age twenty four
None of them even  know what they're fighting for
Little Toy Soldiers going off to war

The world has always been......

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...Once

Only once in a dream tornadoes uproot a house
Spinning over black and white fields of corn
Straight through the open arms of a rainbow
Two companions cling way up high above the storm.

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...A Most Holy Vision Speaks in Mystical Tomes

Enchanted colorful images shine ever-brightly from
a wild cosmic fire appearing high in the evening sky.

As people gaze upon these unusually radiant......

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...The happy sound of the coffeemaker.
Or of a welcomed friend’s voice!
Using a real phone, not texting,
You sense  her in real time, a true joy

Maybe it is his sensual deep voice?Hmm?
That hungr......

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...Had it been my expectations  or was 
it betrayal.                 
The insights withdraw insanity 
climbing up with prayers 
In real time when I was never real,
In hopeless nights when I was nev......

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...Distant Things


Our memories are distant things
   that live among our yesterdays.
They live in thoughts, and each one brings
   those moments framed in many ways.

Like photographs and vide......

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...Friendship in a Covid world. (C) Arthur Abrahamson January 2021 

My Facebook friends photo stares back at me from the blue tinted screen

A 13 -year-old photograph, the hint of a smile, looking ......

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...(Sing to the tune "American Pie.)

I long, long time ago, I can still remember when,
Junk food made me smile,
And I knew if I had a chance,
That I could make my fatness dance,
And maybe I was h......

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...The Present

A fleeting moment in eternal time,
And ever progressive in real-time.

One’s “now” moment, then in history past,
Now in motion moving to future fast.

My words become history whe......

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...one night i dreamt i was surfing in cyberspace &
many images flickered in Adobe Flash
with every movement made, every keystroke &
slide of the mouse to & fro,
i hadn’t a clue (in real time), but i kn......

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"Artificial Iris"


Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar, 
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pa......

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...‘Sankofa’ In 'Safranbolu'

This bird from Ghana’s legends flies forward looking backward
                      In the Twi language twinned with indigenous souls and wisdom
the feathered friend su......

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...*written in real time*


       The clouds portended rain hours earlier
          But I chose to venture out anyway 

               I failed to heed the forecast
   The skies changed......

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"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal......

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