A Consuming Weather
...Clouds in a Walmart mirror.
The galvanized roof is
eclectically painted and rattling
its shifting shadows.
Some mutter,
hurry to the unmanned checkouts,
some seek a deeper shelter in the
spo...
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Categories:
calculators, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gotta Go
...Books to the library
photos to family.
Paint cans and lumber
from renovations years ago.
Most of the furniture
including the piano.
Fastest way to do this
is rent a dumpster.
On the interne...
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Categories:
calculators, bible, books, computer, family,
Form: Free verse
Calculators of the Heart
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Generals measure the cost of war in human lives
Soldiers toast its value in the cheapest of dives ...
Their stomachs in knots all night and day
Mothers find war's price too st...
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Categories:
calculators, life, mother, soldier, war,
Form: Couplet
What Is Happening
...What Is Happening?
Yes, the little Genie asked
What is happening?
Children aren’t being taught
To tell time,
They can’t look at the clock and
Know whether it’s one o’clock
Or it’s 10 o’clock...
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Categories:
calculators, art, baseball, books, flower,
Form: Prose Poetry
Anothingwholeordyword
...don't worry i'm fine
this trance takes a minute
I’m not at all confused
after imagining whispers
among the bushes in my garden
all calm if an imaginary specter
pass and see my sleepy eyes
thro...
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Categories:
calculators, drug, imagination, sound,
Form: Free verse
School Days
...School day memories,
Were Maths and literacy,
Did compound interest, you see,
Before decimal currency,
Had no calculators,
Used our brains, good for later!...
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Categories:
calculators, children, school,
Form: Free verse
It's a Tie
...I agree with sacred teachers
who advocate I best not feel resonantly privileged
while meditating
to take part in something special
like sacred mysteries
of sabbath revolutions.
And yet,
I on...
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Categories:
calculators, community, education, feelings, health,
Form: Political Verse
Reaper and Binder
...Reaper and Binder
Our thumbs do the talking nowadays,
The cyberspace filled with thoughts, expressions of different elements of the 21st century 's creativity.
I am talking inventions, engagemen...
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Categories:
calculators, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Double Blind 20-20
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See what!
Don’t let a let a lot of
skyjack noise
cloud your IQ vision
Radar babies make sonar decisions
for the latest batch
of tech toys
They be so double blind batt...
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Categories:
calculators, metaphor, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
System of Stars
...Stars turn out in unknown numbers vast
Blanketed in a field of smokey mist
Who will count them but the children
Rolling across the greenery of hills
Falling off the cliff from infancy
Into infin...
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Categories:
calculators, age, children, creation, life,
Form: Free verse
Too Damn Old
...
I was here when television wasn’t…
Movies in color were still a new thing
Cars were mostly black
I was here when jet planes weren’t…
Telephones were bulky and hung from the wall
Most...
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Categories:
calculators, age, change,
Form: Monorhyme
The Formula
...The world rotates and life moves forward,
I see a straight path but im spinning!
The confusion between me and them:
How we separated- the split and turns
The additions and multiplications;
Divi...
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Categories:
calculators, deep, image, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Fate's Footfalls
...Way back when I was still in school
I saw the most ingenious tool
They called the thing a sliding rule
A smart man rose out of a fool
It could multiply and divide
Hung on a belt there by your ...
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Categories:
calculators, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond Description
...BEYOND DESCRIPTION
If you took all the words in all the dictionaries.
The words of all the books in all the world’s libraries,
You’d still not have enough to tell of all God’s love
Or describe ...
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Categories:
calculators, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Sixty Plus Verses Teenager
...Can remember when being a teenager
so free and easy could see no danger,
but things you do seems a lot stranger
mobile phones, computers, life's arrangers,
must have been boring without technol...
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Categories:
calculators, age, father daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
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