'SOS'
...Dear Security,
In this long and never-ending plight, I’m sending out a ‘SOS’ to you tonight…
Why do you elude me so? Why do you hide from me like the sun hides from the night? I search ...
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Categories:
billboards, anxiety, care, emotions, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Hollow City
...(The Hollow City Cycle include:
The Hollow City
I Remember You -- the city speaks
Last One Left)
No footsteps echo on broken stone,
only wind dragging secrets through dust.
The city si...
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Categories:
billboards, sick, war,
Form: Free verse
IN MY SECOND HALF LIFE
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Wandering in my darkness of soul
the city cries like a wounded animal
the sky wears a bruised dusk, half-forgotten.
Neon veins pulse through pavement cracks
a river of headlights bleeding in...
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Categories:
billboards, allegory, america, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
THE STORY OF LADY GREYHOUND GREETA
...A Greyhound Racing Dog
More than Bite and Bark
A Champion Breed
Determined to always succeed
A winner with a proceed
Greeta’s face pictured on Campaign Billboards
A look
Aim to attract for Ad...
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Categories:
billboards, adventure, appreciation, character, class,
Form: Rhyme
Sunrise like a poem
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I sat by a boulder, then an image grew
A goddess with a pen hovered over the stone
She said I'm a muse, with a mission for you
To write a song titled "sunrise like a poem."
I said "nothing rh...
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Categories:
billboards, art, creation, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
What Is Fashion For Me
...Everything you see is fashion
From just simple tattered dress
A carpenter hammering a nail
A boy riding a bicycle
A lady poses for a selfie
Throng of people walking the street
A taho vendor in ...
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Categories:
billboards, art, fashion, life,
Form: Free verse
Vacation
...I pack a shirt.
And pants.
And toothbrush.
Did I pack a shirt?
Should pack another and another?
A pillow, for sure.
I’m sleeping on the couch.
So maybe a foam roller for aches.
Food? Drinks?
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Categories:
billboards, travel,
Form: Free verse
Everything Trees
...Everything Trees
They’re shade
From the sunshine
Shield from the rain
Pulp for the paper
And wood for whittling
They’re body’s
For climbing
Arms for a swing
Markers of time
And fr...
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Categories:
billboards, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Two-Edged Sword
...I followed your success,
I heard all of your music, and you sang them great,
what progress,
Names on billboards,
Bet men waiting to be your date
Awards,
What? Who?
That's not me, wait --
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Categories:
billboards, allusion, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme
Fiendish Hub Anita Blake Series Tribute
...I've heard of the Circus Of The Damned;
By all accounts the rumors are true;
The graffiti makes it seem so grande;
Filled with copper and turquoise blue
billboards have you longing to attend;
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Categories:
billboards, dark, emotions, gothic, horror,
Form: Terza Rima
Neon Blind
...In streets adorned with neon lights,
We're sold a dream of grand delights,
But beware, for what glitters gold,
May only serve to leave us cold.
The market's claws can gouge and bite,
While we ...
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Categories:
billboards, society,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Jesus Take the Wheel
...The phrase was made popular
From a song to encourage all
I travel many highways
And love to observe my surroundings
Many deer love to feed
On the border of this road
Then one day I came
Acros...
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Categories:
billboards, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Anti-Poem - Snaking It To Venice
...Anti-Poem — “Snaking It To Venice”
(Poet’s Instruction: Play “The End” by the Doors loudly, while reading this anti-poem)
it’s you and me baby inside this gliding duster
this ’74 green plymout...
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Categories:
billboards, memory, music, youth,
Form: Free verse
Wheres the Beef
...Where’s the beef? The old woman said.
I still see her bulbous nose, parading in my head.
She opens the bun and the hamburger is dinky.
My thoughts about this oldster are incredibly kinky.
Where...
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Categories:
billboards, america,
Form: Rhyme
Nation Building
...Nation building
The blond warrior on billboards
of yore has lost relevance
Germany is a tanned nation.
The language is simpler; if
not Grammarly correct.
They sit in last chance saloon
th...
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Categories:
billboards, anti bullying, birth, corruption,
Form: Blitz
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