Best Throttles Poems

Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama or a wet swimming suit,
   
With my hands on my peanut butter and jelly toast,
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~Marionette Master~    

All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on

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The Moon slowly moves its way into my room
Dust pushes through my window making shadow puppets on my walls
The talent on my walls dance, scaring my...

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My body tenses.
The soft padding of footy pajamas
approach
tiny fingers grip my eyelid
lift it....
Bright eyes gaze into
the freshly opened eye.
A voice shouts....DA!!!
The other eye opens.
Yes I'm in here.
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In the center of a fresh pageant,
she throttles like a mythical woman
quick to dance among open flowers,
whirling like a hundred stars
with curves round and breasts oyster pink
as the trees, ovules, candles in her eyes
open the fingertips of near April.

Wild tempo vibrates on wispy notes,
until eyes...

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In froths of a sky never ever ending,
she throttles like a half—shelled woman
slow to prance in the midst
 of obedient breeze,
her movement wrapped 
like a hundred cider vines...

How orange are her nights.

This hue burnt by sways 
of corrugated leaves ; a crown 
adorned with pearlized...

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I listen to whimpers  as duskfall nears
Finding a gangly waif rile from  burnt skin;
My feet throttles along…his grin appears
With palm half-filled with dimes circling therein.

We talk warmly about this waif's despair
Of how prayers- heal abating such plight--
As he shares moist wheat-bread in hours...

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The Big Race

I qualified for the big race in May; my odds to win were long,
They knew I couldn’t win, but I had to run strong.
By lap fifty, I’ve moved up to position ten,
It’s a very long race, but I still felt I could win.

I’m...

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The weightless float of morn throttles
 like a softly-bathed woman: white, tangy and bubbling
 with a sprig of mint and dew;
 petals’ chests opening a gate of chastity, undressed.


A path of upturned twigs rips free and slides along veils 
of bridal mist; misty in a...

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Pearl, you are a diamond
I guess she always knew it.
A proper little helper,
helping through and through it.

She never gives a cheerio
or leaving like a plane.
She's always there to scatter sunshine
Even in the rain.

Pearl, you are a diamond
That no one can replace,
Chocking back the throttles
Just like...

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Elmo Elmo was an elephant seller
He kept a white elephant in the cellar
He swigged all the bottles
Down a hundred throttles
And was turned into a big screw propeller












Elmo Elmo (C) rajat kanti chakrabarty
2014...

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A girl was raped in a bus that night 
By six men, all drunk, who had lost their minds	
Ambrosia was the elixir of gods, it is said
But godlike men in this age aren’t born or made
Alcohol wrecks judgment, makes beasts out of men 
Deeds under...

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The motorcycle rooooooooared~~~~~
Like a ravenous lion 
	Over fresh kill, prancing, charging, pacing
It
	Moved through the hoard
Of migrating tourists, frightening the tamer
	More passive vagabonds
Lumbering
	Forward
		On cruise-control
The nameless helmeted driver
Melded with his machine,
	Head down. Spine arched, 
arms extended on the throttles~~
Blue-jeaned thighs embrace the chasse
A lovers grip..
	His forward charge...

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The lion hisses a roar in the farm,
as the chirps of the cat rents the air,
a hound slithers into den of the sheep,
the morning comes darkness is in the air,

The children work parents play in the garden
the goats are barking as the chicken are milked
the...

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As she mounts a wagon with few treasures, my middle-aged aunt begins to paint sketches of fields running like her summer skirt, of  lush grasses  traipsing  with autumnal breezes. Still elegant under a dying moon, her fingers reach out to a hum...

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It's just another day at the office for the dedicated Air Force crew.
They've had their briefing and now climb aboard the venerable B-52.
They complete their checklists as they've done so many times before.
The pilot throttles up to military power and down the runway they roar!

The...

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