Best Jackknife Poems

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride 
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The road may be bumpy on the highway of life
 So fasten your seat belt and hang on tight
Watch for those steep curves or you may jackknife
Keep your eyes on the road and your goals in sight
The road will get smoother, the sun will shine...

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You are rock and bone,
sturdy eyes and heavy leaden shoes
line up by the doorframe like splinters.
The wood is peeling, and the 
stairs cave beneath our feet in surrender.
My papa’s new wife would place glass paperweights
on every surface of the house, like tiny orbs.
I wonder know...

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crazy steam whistle 
wakes me to a cooler ‘morn
blown loud 
moisture piercing
rock rock rockin'
on grease
on iron
on splintered sleepers 
creaking through 
frost blown meadows
do I jump?
do I stay? 
next station comin'
station bull gonna ride you away
blackjack swingin'
applejack head ringin'
raggedy wine bard
mad mad mad 
for the reach
the...

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Fanatics in feigned fury forced fellow fools for fait accompli
Laying lies as labyrinth loyally to murdering Lord,
Haggard Haters in hounding habits and hypocrisy as honor hunched,
Bearded Blackguard blazes bright sword amongst blinded buffoons,
Jabber with Jackknife judging jaundice with Kind “Jihads”,
Happy to hack the Innocent whose...

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Above the lowly metro din,
we climb through earnest efforts
to slopes of grouse and goats.
Where skies brim pale and pure,
trails narrow, plummet, climb,
and jackknife over the granite jumble
of broken planetary bones.

We glimpse a momentary thaw
in a world frozen in icy fingers.
But we don’t whisper this to...

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Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly

youthfully blocked out more
rapid than an elegant eland
vibrantly, regally, magically,
and gracefully skirts borderland
which favored topography
constitutes grassland or woodland,

far more pleasing to observe,
than reading adulterated brand
of aforementioned...

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Wildlife cannot remain contained;
Life in a glass dome is so secure;
Strife lines the broken trail to success,
jackknife just to watch basic shatter;

Sunlight isn't gifted glitter like splinters;
Rewrite is a creative's closest consort;
Recite what they say in a new way,
smite polite I want to make art....

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After about fifty years as married wife
the last three fraught with strife
obvious telltale signs of terminal illness rife
hysterectomy irrevocably didst jackknife
at the least severely incapacitated
think pitted, riddled,
and rounced her tortured life.

Ovarian cancer affliction
on par with megadeath
bald pate (color of bleached skull),
and crossbones characterized mortal death
oxygen...

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You never think what is to come.
The little kid you smiled at
is a well-known author now, 
a thousand miles away; you found
the trash-filled lot you didn't care about
is now a church—              ...

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A staid old art collector in Quincy
dotes on cats but with people is chintzy
He willed old shoes to his wife
and to his son a jackknife
His tabby got a Monet and Da Vinci

Written 2/13/22...

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I remember so well that Christmas date.
The year that things changed - I had just turned eight.
I was no longer a child in my view,
And I hoped Santa had seen that, too.
The time for toys and candy had now passed.
I was learnin' to rope and...

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Through every spin and jackknife,
you peer into my soul's keyhole;
Far beyond this condensed life;

Written with stars onto my scroll,
our story long ago branded boundless;
You are my other half, my whole;

No matter how difficult it gets,
absolute bond nothing can sever;
A broad mote surrounding a fortress;

Impenetrable when...

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Take a look who’s behind the kit,
he’s not our regular drummer;

Make no mistake he’s taken a life,
with that jackknife to a pounding heart;

So notorious, his beat’s ferocious.

He’s ransacked an alley and the bar,
on tour he remains midnight’s shadow;

Take a look you have seen him before,
in...

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Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done... 
generating thunderstruck ac/dc current
hmm... maybe due comeuppance 
being scammed to the hilt)
suspicion toward comportment of people rife
with deliberate intent to jackknife
cumulative net...

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