Jazz on a Billboard
Jazz on a billboard,
a flash of notes,
Urgent beats, syncopation, improvisation,
and impromptu solos but why jazz on a billboard?
What’s the hap’s on that?
Man, what is the impact of the word jazz on a billboard anyway?
Syncopation is alive,
solos breaking free,
and a temporary show,
but is jazz here to stay?
Does a billboard for Jazz tell us about all the
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Categories:
billboard, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
A billboard of Mercy
Stuff I don’t deserve
As I swerve through this life
A reflection in time
Jesus is the One
Who takes me to my prime
My life has been a billboard of mercy
God the Father flows and
Shows the love filtering from His Heart
Stuff I don’t deserve but
He allows me to swerve through this life
My life is a billboard of
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Categories:
billboard, love,
Form: Free verse
Billboard
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
|I am a billboard available now |
|for advertisement of anything |
|like product you want to vend |
|or some dream you like to sell |
|I stand high lighted day - night|
|in full view of loitering people |
_
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Categories:
billboard, image,
Form: Shape
One Billboard Changed Me
I have always thought if I stayed in my lane
If I angered no one
If I used a soft voice
If I hid the real me
I would not be maimed or murdered.
Be unassuming, my mind said.
Above all else, do not show the real you.
Then I saw a billboard that said this:
“The world needs who you were meant
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Categories:
billboard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Highway Billboard
A highway billboard reads:
If you died today
would you be ready for hell?
My parents died,
I feel a distant sorrow
that grows tighter
like a vine as the years pass.
My dog dies, I shed real tears;
a sour sap pools in my gut.
Five thousand souls perish
somewhere far away -
nothing.
I suspect heaven is a tattoo
over this world’s blemishes.
Maybe Hell is just
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Categories:
billboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Billboard Sign
billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now
temptation
hungry bear
buffet line
plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch
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Categories:
billboard, food,
Form: Free verse
Billboard Sign
billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now
temptation
hungry bear
buffet line
plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch
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Categories:
billboard, humor,
Form: Free verse
Billboard
The billboard on the highway
Had no product there to sell
But asked a question: Will you go
To Heaven or to Hell?
Below, there was a number
You could call or you could text
So you could get an answer as to
Where you’re going next.
I wonder just how many
Will give in and make that call,
Though hopefully the truth would be
Nobody
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Categories:
billboard, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Billboard
A highway billboard reads:
“If you died today
would you be ready for hell?”
My parents die,
I feel a distant sorrow
that grows tighter
like a vine in my dreams.
My dog dies, I shed real tears;
willow-sap pools in my gut.
Five thousand souls perish
somewhere far away -
nothing.
I suspect heaven is a tattoo
over this world’s blemishes.
Hell? Maybe it’s just a
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Categories:
billboard, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Heaven's Billboard
Just before the sun rises
and just after it sets
The sky's majesty bursts forth
Rapture's carnival in jets
of brilliant bold colors
so rich and so deep
clinging to Heaven's billboard
ere they give way to Time's sweep
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Categories:
billboard, beauty, color, sky, time,
Form: Rhyme
Naughty Billboard
Picture a man's hooha on a billboard downtown
Ladies would be late, spill coffee on their gowns
With their mouths all agape
Their makeup in bad shape
Those ad boys sure know how to clown around
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Categories:
billboard, silly,
Form: Limerick
Every Human a Billboard
Every human being a is bill board
On each on the roadside of life
Devils advertise vices attractively
Angels teach virtues with humility
Skeptics deny everything outright
God records responses quietly
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Categories:
billboard, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Flesh: a Billboard
Immeasurable,
unlabeled, word-
less by
studded
tears
and
voice,
APHONIC.
Only death by
tenderness
swoops down
as eternity
and her hands,
soft as fire;
as time
the flesh;
a billboard
the soul
neon lights.
:: 11-06-2017 ::
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Categories:
billboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Billabong Song Is Neither a Billboard Nor a Bull Breaking
A transparent parrot makes a very big noise when seed arrives to visit. Mr and Mrs seed have fifteen children, eleven thousand grandchildren and one great grandchild. It is interesting to note bar levels for bar levels are neither bare back riders, billionaires, biscuit barrels or broomsticks breaking beers. Carrier pigeons call most effectively in
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Categories:
billboard, adventure, africa, assonance,
Form: I do not know?
One Last Billboard
So many billboards placed around you
and the trailer played in your head time and time again.
But denial disguised himself as belief
while it stood as your counselor
to think a Bull will someday become a Lion.
No one has hit perfection
and no one ever will do so
but there are wrongs worth of great attention
and some turn-offs worth
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Categories:
billboard, betrayal, break up, change,
Form: Epic
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