Lunch on Third Avenue
...Had lunch with a friend
And we sat in the shade
In a sidewalk arrangement
The restaurant made.
I live on the east side
And she on the west.
We meet to catch up
At each other’s request.
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Categories:
bulldozers, friend, new york,
Form: Rhyme
MORE WILDLIFE MADE HOMELESS
...We see but grey where once was green
As bulldozers now scrape,
Turning a joyful rural scene
Into joyless landscape.
The area was green-belt land
With forest and pasture
But as our numbers s...
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Categories:
bulldozers, animal, environment, nature,
Form: Ballad
The Deserted Town
...I woke up this morning in the silence of my mind and looked outside
Not a sign of life was moving, and the city has lost its pride
I looked up at the skies above me searching for an answer, but t...
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Categories:
bulldozers, america, angel, break up,
Form: Narrative
Replaced
...Lumbering bulldozers grind
and rip trees and shrubs
from the empty lots, competing
with gas fumes, the noise
of trucks, and honking horns
on the busy thoroughfare.
Two gracious houses,
on...
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Categories:
bulldozers, change, culture, philosophy, sad,
Form: Free verse
My Eyes See
...Written By: D. Collins 5/20/24
1,200 for 30,000 is pretty simple math.
Annihilate the residents, then take their land.
No o...
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Categories:
bulldozers, analogy, rude,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Generation X
...Written By: D. Collins 12/12/23
I'm noting how the new generation will not be fooled.
Lead into going all out in deep throating the Jews.
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Categories:
bulldozers, youth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Keep It Simple
...If you tell me what you need we can work out a plausible deal, if you tell me what you want we can solve this historical debacle in an unprecedented miracle.
You have been running around the wor...
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Categories:
bulldozers, appreciation, arabic, business, change,
Form: Narrative
Ptsd
...Staunch, spine straight as a flagpole
Chin tucked into neckfolds of flesh
Face itch, lips blubber incessantly...
Hips thrust forward... twin bulldozers
Life expectancy, a speck in ...
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Categories:
bulldozers, anxiety, mental illness, pride,
Form: Free verse
Snow Ploughing
...arctic muskoxen
carve out a niche in snowdrifts ~
natures bulldozers
Winter Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Howmanysyllables 5/7/5...
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Categories:
bulldozers, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Haiku
Clumsy Oaf
...in her people’s wisdom,
The author said,
"No Native language has
a cognate for “human” as
separate from other beings."
The NPR interviewer sighed and
became excited by the unity
of all things ...
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Categories:
bulldozers, angst, anxiety, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Millennium Park
...Millennium Park
a reclaimed landfill
once succumbed
to the deafening shriek
of sea gulls and bulldozers.
Now a rolling hill
gazing down on the skyline
of The City of Boston.
A blanket of gree...
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Categories:
bulldozers, environment, irony, nature, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Childlike
...recall your childhood
when you were so unaware of being a child
walking with swinging arms
babbling with chatter box like a brook
unencumbered by opinions, beliefs
unspoiled by graces and airs
...
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Categories:
bulldozers, childhood,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here wa...
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Categories:
bulldozers, holocaust, race, racism, truth,
Form: Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
...Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade...
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Categories:
bulldozers, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Retribution- -
...Speaking to the world
up closer
never knowing what to say
getting far away
running from the bulldozers
malicious Humanity
and when it's all said and done
and while I'm still yet...
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Categories:
bulldozers, allegory, analogy, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
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