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Bulletins Poems - Poems about Bulletins

Roots - For Alex Haley

...Pensile clouds of a new Truth loom.
With them are selected versions of
Extinct grief.

Looking through the yellowness of a
Dog’s eyes, this aura of Truth, pervasive,
Sours my palate.

What sa...
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Categories: bulletins, eulogy, tribute,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberThe Day Cnn Shut Down

...If only love happened round the world
That would be a pretty slow news day
Actually CNN would have to shut down
No “JUST IN” bulletins, per se

Weather reports predict nothing but sunshi...
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Categories: bulletins, corruption,
Form: Rhyme



My Visit

...The little town is eternal or seems so as I come back to trace
my childhood down these sidewalks. Each house holds 
faded memories yet, creeps back into my mind until once 
again I live the mystic...
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Categories: bulletins, childhood, environment, feelings,
Form: Prose

Undaunted

...Tasteless pelt whiffs of mundane air
Against my nostrils numb with dread; 
Scarcely fathom I what spectacle fair 
Beyond this umbra curtain latent lies. 

Tetchy harbingers over dark corners
Lu...
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Categories: bulletins, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Premium MemberIt's Good To Be Seen

...There are things that you will hear only once or twice,                                                                                       and if you are wise, you will treasure them for a lifetim...
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Categories: bulletins, friend,
Form: Narrative



Take My Message Away

...Wake my news, take my message away
Communication became a red flag
Bulletins became a blind eye
Abduction, tourism, grief, and murder became my footsteps
Each time I had to open my eyes
Ignoranc...
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Categories: bulletins, change, community, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Intrepid Maverick Philosopher Returns

...To aerate, babble and procrastinate
decluttering man cave rubbish
welcoming this temperate
(Billy me) idle March thirtieth
tooth house sand nineteen

eventually to accomplish
sorting thru life...
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Categories: bulletins, betrayal, dark, environment, grave,
Form: Free verse

My Seven Thousandth Poem

...My Seven Thousandth Poem

This is actually it believe it or not.
I have composition books full of them.
They are even on all kinds and sizes 
of sheets of paper. I write them on
church bulletin...
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Categories: bulletins, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThe News Seller

...Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory

Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another 

Sort of a whiz kid at what he does and ...
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Categories: bulletins, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Love From the Uk

...This morn I woke before the sun
The sky was dark and menacing
Just like the man who yesterday
Shooting his gun indiscriminately 
Those innocent lives he took away
A massacre after a bright sunny...
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Categories: bulletins, grief, loss, love, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Condolences Forever Invoked - 9 11 2001

...Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

(I sit corrected for typing year 201, when most of America untrammeled by hordes of humanity, and probably far more similar to the garden of Eden, which app...
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Categories: bulletins, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Condolences Forever Invoked 9 11 201

...Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

Many unsuspecting innocent lives
     unwittingly found themselves
     at ground zero
     with absolutely no time
     to bid loved ones adieu,
and t...
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Categories: bulletins, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberCommunity Health Assurance

...Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and...
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Categories: bulletins, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberParty Animal In the Form of a She

...She was the best of us. 
She was gloriously fun and exciting.
She laughed like no other, throwing back her head, full mouth open.
She was outgoing, completely her own person, and outrageous.
We a...
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Categories: bulletins, confidence, girlfriend, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

The Missing

...Memories shift through generations; pictures yellow, fray across the currents of time, worn and torn. Hushed stories talk about a life taken away too early, bone fragments in the mud, saltwater grave...
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Categories: bulletins, memorial day, world war
Form: Narrative

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