Best Payload Poems

"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like...

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Along the mountain pine valley did the Iron Horse roar,
A steam belching black demon, burning red hot coals
Within it's steel belly.
Speed's hell bound creation, driven...

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I was reading the paper... 
in the green room, 

you walked in the door, 
I didn't know you, yet, 
of you I wanted more... 

excited,...

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"The Forest, The Lot and The Carpetbagger"

In the middle
of it all, in 
The Forest,
I was asked
by a soothsayer
to choose 
a number

1, 2 or 3. 

I...

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I am not a sanctuary
do not come to me for sanctuary, 
I am a supernova,  the Saturn V rocket
prepared to penetrate the highest blue...

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Brand new thermonuclear detonation devices for sale.
Fresh off the factory assembly line! 
A revolutionary feat of engineering that can carry up to 
10 warheads, each...

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Marmite Man was enjoying breakfast, marmite on toast
When the officer on the bridge shouted "it's the Aussie coast"
The alarm for action stations sounded, men ran...

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My hourglass shattered somewhere in the Limbo
I found myself swiming towards stones instead of stars,
my heart,fragile & curious began to beat navely,bravely for my soul's...

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Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under...

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Long lines of vapour split blue skies asunder
Fly vengeful raptors, one thousand in number
Headlong they go, to brave death or glory
Stratosphere flight, part of war's...

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The pain of your love, pricks me to the bone
Like a pissed off praying mantis, I plead with tentacles
The pedigree of your love, powers me...

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With skip, screech and flourish 
  The belfry-housed bats 
Flew wildly and garish 
  Far madder than rats. 
Greasepaint teardrops a-flying 
 ...

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Empathic..... Taking on the pain
Of another as though
It bares your name 

Finding relationships
Wearing as you carry
Not only your load ,but theirs and the daily payload(to...

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It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea 
Created a baby that lifted its mommy
Now there is an elephant and...

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no white clouds to hide…
shrapnel tearing through her side
Death’s payload inside

Robb A. Kopp
© Nov.13.2012...

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