What you don't know can hurt you
...At Nahal Oz, Hamas hurled a substance weird
It burst into flames, released a gas to be feared
Jews suffocated in minutes, but we don’t know
Who made it, what it was, nothing to show.
At a thea...
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Categories:
commuter train, abuse, evil, hate, hurt,
Form: Lyric
Passing Underneath a Railway Bridge
...She seemed oblivious to the smattering of lightly falling rain;
He holding her hand...and as much as his very life should
Depend upon this. ...
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Categories:
commuter train, love,
Form: Rhyme
White Rabbit Has Gone Rogue
...The white rabbit had gone rogue as told.
His wife was at home with their child Bold.
Only one child? You are kidding right?
This was amazing for rodents who live in Bright.
White rabbit got mor...
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Categories:
commuter train, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Off To School
...OFF TO SCHOOL
So you're off to boarding school,
It'll be the making of you, my lad,
Muses the bespectacled gentleman,
Sat behind his morning paper,
The commuter train steaming
Its trundling...
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Categories:
commuter train, angst, change, depression, home,
Form: Free verse
At Least It Was Diverse, Part Ii
......I was working construction jobs,
there was a big job for the trains,
to replace an old viaduct
that shook in the wind and the rain.
The government gave money and
put strings on it, that’s wha...
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Categories:
commuter train, discrimination, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Thanks, But No Thanks
...Although the name, Tat Tvam Asi, was new to me, the thought and meaning were not unfamiliar.
If I say that I am closed minded, would you judge me and set me apart as one incarcerated?
If I say that...
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Categories:
commuter train, christian, faith, god, religion,
Form: Verse
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,
th...
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Categories:
commuter train, city, people, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Man of Routine
...On the commuter train he was a man of routine
Finish the crossword at exactly eight nineteen
Seven down was particularly tricky today
However this man knew he would find a way
Once seven dow...
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Categories:
commuter train, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Td-The Donald
...Ivanka and Melania walking the 5th Avenue Street
Red Wolves stalking their beat
Being ever so sweet
Looking at the window dressing
Critical topics they are addressing
Knowing Daddy Donald w...
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Categories:
commuter train, america, art, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Nineseventeenpm
...nineseventeen PM
a slow drip torments the kitchen
the TV argues with the walls
in another room
that damn mosquito waits
tuning its violin
a distant odor of skunk
sneaks under the door
two cri...
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Categories:
commuter train, time,
Form: Free verse
A Dark and Dreary Night
...Once upon a time in a very dark and dreary, creepy, place where the wind was howling through the black trees,
And the branches looked like swords and machetes, I was sitting with my 5 year-old-daug...
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Categories:
commuter train, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sitting Wondering
...I wonder what a musician’s life is like
As I notice you nonchalantly carrying your instrument
Much like keeping your voice boxed and in a velvet bag
I look at you and wonder as we sit in the commu...
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Categories:
commuter train, fun, happiness, image, life,
Form: Free verse
Urban Morning Sound
...hear others out there, just beyond my wall-wrapped sharing space
they break on through, sneaking inside my head
far above, front-nosed pilots point high-flying seated people tubes
passengers...
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Categories:
commuter train, day, Lullaby, morning, sound,
Form: Verse
Unquotable Quotes:Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII
( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these...
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Categories:
commuter train, family, girl, husband, men,
Form: Epigram
A Genuine Excuse
...Sam slept through his alarm once again
So dashed to catch the commuter train
But today he is fine
‘Autumn leaves’ block the line
He’s off the hook … his boss can’t complain!
2nd Ju...
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Categories:
commuter train, humorous, travel,
Form: Limerick
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