Commuter part deux
You've seen the sunlight
now you mask your pride
Friends tell you where to go
Keep on a straight line
peaceful shades of green
strides past you
There's a commuter strip demur
back to cover hes read his Daily Mail
the burglued fox languishes
Making sense of the passing years
Lost in a wherewithal
Is it time to change ?
to purify your soul
or cry to the
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Categories:
commuter, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The commuter
You see the sunlight amongst the scree
There was a man
who couldn't tell me anything
Where there was once the comfort
of the evenings telegraph line
he runs wild amongst shops turned into flatlets
Keep on a straight line
he has changed his mind
where once basson roamed
he guesses himself unfree
fortitude follows the wind
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Categories:
commuter, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Commuter
My constant friend,
The invisible commuter.
She’s always there:
On my phone and my computer.
Siri’s her name;
She always perks up at my voice.
I’d shut her down,
But she’d lose agency and choice.
Besides, I fear
That Amazon will flood my house.
Or even worse,
She’ll share our secrets with my spouse!
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(For the “Let’s Explore Digital Technology” Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Simon Rogerson
2/8/2022)
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Categories:
commuter, humorous, technology,
Form: Rhyme
The Commuter
As flowers fill with summer rain
Commuters board their rush hour train
Oblivious to all they see
They must get home in time for tea
Reflecting on their busy day
Decisions seldom go their way
The simple things that mean a lot
Just too busy – Now forgot
Magic times remain unseen
Now blinded by their dull routine
Tomorrows dreams stay in
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Categories:
commuter, business, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Heading To Chicago On a Commuter Train
They are looking out tiny boxes
traveling toward the city from the suburbs
wearing tennis shoes on their tired feet
Many have left their dress shoes at work
Some stop at a gym on the way,
these are the high brows who do not punch in
It is Chicago, nineteen ninety-six
My husband is in one of these jam trains
looking
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Categories:
commuter, city, people, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Righteous Riders
Ten thousand eyes will each day pass but not a single one will see,
for the folly of their hubris hides from harsh reality,
and when they pass by homeless people posted prone in poverty,
cold cloaked, they are invisible.
Ten thousand ears will each day pass but not a single one will hear
any proper prayers of the sullen
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Categories:
commuter, allusion, extended metaphor, satire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Urban Commuter Scents and Sensibility
Ten thousand eyes will each day pass but not a single one will see,
because the folly of their hubris hides the harsh reality,
and when they walk past homeless people posted prone in poverty,
cold cloaked, they are invisible.
Ten thousand ears will each day pass but not a single one will hear
any proper prayers of the sullen
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Categories:
commuter, city, humanity, irony, poverty,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Commuter
Sway, rumble, stop.
Swish go the doors.
"Mind the gap."
Shuffle round the floor.
Everyone squeezes.
Can I get a seat?
So many people
You cannot help but meet.
Sway, rumble, stop.
Swish go the doors.
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Categories:
commuter, community,
Form: Verse
Predicament of Kolkata's Bus Commuter
The Predicament of Kolkata’s Bus Commuter
Two dozen perspiring commuters are wearily waiting for the bus,
Exasperated because of the delay and frustrated due to the rush.
The rickety contraption rumbles to a halt on the potholed bumpy road. Like projectiles, passengers hurtle up, in a desperate hurry to board,
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Categories:
commuter, humorous, image,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of the Commuter
Early morning, bleary-eyed
We’re a weaving coffee-carrying crowd
One more sip, heads bowed
Oh Grief! That train horns loud!
Sorry! Excuse me!
Opps…Shall we dance?
A frown turns round
Manners & Humour - it's sound
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Categories:
commuter, dance, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Commuter Van
My cold not quite over –
With sniffles and cough –
I had a commitment
I couldn’t blow off.
The thought of the subway,
Its rush-hour crush,
Was turning my insides,
Congested, to mush.
But then I remembered,
A few blocks away,
Commuter vans idled
Each morning, each day.
And so I inquired –
How much? Was there room?
I paid and was welcomed,
Or so I assume.
In
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Categories:
commuter, urban,
Form: Rhyme
Commuter Funeral Subway Ride
We all gathered together in the Home Going of Harold Smiley
The story of life in a previous daily ride
But on this day, a deceased body traveling in the stride
A funeral will take place with Coffin and all
The Family gathered in the subway car, and they are all standing tall
The subway ride with words about the
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Categories:
commuter, bereavement, character, death, dedication,
Form: Ballad
Commuter Widow
Trainspotting
isn’t fun
not when she’s dead tired
arms of jelly
ears full of tears
baby wants
baby wants
pick the kids up
from school
strawberry jam
sandwiches uneaten
traffic jam
ma I’m hungry
baby wants
baby wants
make the dinner
bake the cake
bun in the oven
bending over
nightly shapes
the body pays the price
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Categories:
commuter, absence, life, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Commuter
Faith my professor
once said
is like a train
driven on rails
of written truths.
The truth, I ask..
you have lectured
on wars and famines
the Jewish holocaust
and Old Testament prophesies.
The professor and pastor
smiled and stated
everything will be fulfilled
when the Christ returns
a truth mentioned in the Gospels.
I asked kindly
is faith a leap
like off the Grand Canyon?
he reached out and handed me
a
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Categories:
commuter, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Perpetual Commuter Struggle
Stuck in a gargantuan feedback loop
Insentive truckers smash turtle shells
Squirrels sprawled with concrete entrails
Gleaming windshields refracting might
Dull relation just business is right
Scratching the ceiling of my nerve
Making blood curdle vengeance fertile
In shell shocked shin splints rampage
Remember to breathe as the poisons pass
As parasities arachnophobe their fist clenched dreams
Ill just stride and take my time
Pride is
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Categories:
commuter, angst, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
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