Best Skyrockets Poems

Ascending from a fertile earth
The graceful Willow flaunts it's birth
Toward the sky it's branches rise
Like skyrockets in disguise

Then bursting with a  rockets flare
Creating star bursts in the air,
They gently fall back toward  the ground
And weep without a sound


Bob Quigley
Sept 30, 2011

Dedicated to Andrea...

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Buoyant on the North west winds;
Shredded clouds expose a half moon eye.
An eye that stares cautiously at
The hyphens of cars below.

Stratus sunsets trace the highway,
That leads to my refuge, 
and shields me from the voyeur and the oncoming night.

I sit upright against unforgiving vinyl,
on the...

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Now in my time echoes
  I remember then
  my full days in a life
  when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow 
  much greater 
  at the gates of Eden
and its dormant crater.

We’d climb its heights
  and to...

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In Kenya, they are called value-added taxes, “yani VAT”.
They change and increase every year
And are placed on everything under the sun.
The prices increase daily, 
But they say it would lead to everyone paying their fair share of tax. 

They are better referred to as poverty...

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Blended with fragrances
And the joyful carols,
The con games of children
Looking for gifts full of fun.
Kris Kringle’s cock-and-bull 
Make them rosy and lull.

Adorned houses with odorous candles
Christmas tree ornamented with red ribbons and jingles 
Marzipans fruitcakes and roasted chickens 
Caramel cookies and plenteous chocolates,
The night illuminated...

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Like diamonds into jet inlaid,
    Ethereal fireworks displays,
    Skyrockets, shooting stars, cascade,
    With crystal fountains, rainbow rays.

    Ethereal fireworks displays.
    Florescent flames that interlace. 
    With crystal...

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Lord, often times as we talk
I don't even know where to begin
My life and soul belong to you
I reserve my heart for my wife
As I look out my window the 
bright of day is engulfed by
the darkness of the approaching
storm -all turns grey
Suddenly in perfect...

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beyond reasonable doubts
behind rabid regrets
beneath a bleeding world
below bombing cyclones
between raging atmospheric rivers

I slide around in a pit of digital snakes
I track my disintegrating limbs
I observe flashing lights rushing to disasters
I ruminate over lost causes
I persevere without purpose

the End is neighing
the horses are noisy
the noise...

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Awakening - not my forte per se, 
With a new dawn perspective rather grey, 
Lolling in bed I stretch and yawn until 
Coffee aroma nibbles my nostril. 

The mere thought of it stirs my core to rise, 
The first sip opens up my droopy eyes,...

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Watch out! watch out! there's a vampire about 
He is hungry for blood there is no doubt.
The lights are low, the shadows are moving
He has found you, it is you he has chosen.

He taunts, he teases, does as he pleases
Sends spine chilling breezes that never...

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Q.1.What is your first choice in the room?
Q.2. Are you freezing in search of warmth?
Q.3.Do you believe in skyrockets?
Q.4.Have you shred your own morals?
Q.5.Can you show us your diplomas of romance?
Q.6.Can you afford four marriages?
Q.7.What is the difference between a grizzly bear and adulthood pressure?
Q.8.Do...

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She dances alone on New Year's Eve.
I watch her as I wait for skyrockets to burst
Against the starry sky in colorful obliteration,
While my breath hangs in frosty plumes for midnight.

Framed in a picture window she dances,
With forgotten drapes left open to me.
Around her the powder...

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Short Arms Limerick
By Tom Wright
10-5-2019

I had a best friend facing two court dockets,
Judge said pay your fines or trouble skyrockets.
Then it came to light,
This man wasn’t tight,
“He just had short arms and deep pockets”
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