At the Beacon Theater
...Went to a concert last night, across town,
To see an old favorite of mine, Jackson Browne.
We slogged through a downpour of thunder and rain,
Where the opening song had a “deluge” refrain.*
The...
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Categories:
damper, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Eyed Stranger El Alborotado
...Written By:
Traducir Al Spaniel'
A.K.A El Alborotado
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To support all of this emotion
to take everything in stride
to up lift to and to encourage
put all that...
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Categories:
damper, music, sports,
Form: Ballad
words of strings
...damper sound without a box
fuse less high key string fret and the low beckoning
saint the same slide you grew out from
drink news and through lava liqour drips off
damper stage and dampen...
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Categories:
damper, chicago, dance, flying, gothic,
Form: Free verse
I'm Steppin On a song
...[verse]
I'm stepping out
you stepped away again
and it's been too long
so I am not waiting again
I'm stepping on
I am on a mission
to get in the groove
of being alive again
I'm stepping ...
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Categories:
damper, boyfriend, courage, desire, moving
Form: Lyric
Love Deep with a rose
...Loving you like the wind, blowing
Through my mind like a melody
The tune mesmerizing like that of hues
Too the rays shine without calamity
My precious mind thoughts lingering
I see a ponder ov...
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Categories:
damper, for him, heartbroken, relationship,
Form: Ballad
Protests
...In the 60’s we protested
Out on the quads
With our armbands and banners and signs
‘Til the rage manifested
By police riot squads
Put a damper on all our designs.
We erected no tents
And we w...
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Categories:
damper, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Look Within
...2/4/23
No ifs ands or maybes
Daily
I'm seeing hatred
People still extremely racist
Meanwhile food and materials being wasted
I understand the messages these mummies meant
Continually mon...
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Categories:
damper, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
ODE TO POETRY
...The poet with his mighty pen,
Warrior for all women and Men.
Using words that all can afford,
Phrases mightier than a sword.
With eloquent prowess a tale,
Powerful thought for a ship to...
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Categories:
damper, poetry,
Form: Ode
A perfect triangle pretending to be right
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A perfect triangle
As he stood in the shadow
Of the dead eye windows of his home
His face alway up
Stars or cries of cloud
his theatre
The sounds that based from his neon lit blue ears
He ...
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Categories:
damper, poems,
Form: Free verse
Breaking News on Tossing Trash
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We used to think about the stars
more distant than the planet Mars
But now we only think of Earth
which puts a damper on our mirth
For on the ground and in the air
There’s so much crud...
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Categories:
damper, environment, giggle,
Form: Sonnet
The Squirrel Episode
...THE SQUIRREL EPISODE
First off…I don’t hate squirrels…they have a kind of rodent charm…
although they monopolize the bird feeder…I do not wish them any harm.
Squirrels and I we are all creatur...
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Categories:
damper, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Milly Moll Is Missing - Ld
...We’ve picnicked at the local park
It’s time to go, as it’s getting dark
But Lucy’s lost her small rag doll
And can’t sleep without Millie Moll
We have to find Lucy’s special toy
Th...
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Categories:
damper, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Footsteps
...There is always the sound of footsteps trailing behind me
And no matter how much I attempt to discover who it is
I have never seen to be successful at all
Everyone believes me insane when I speak ...
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Categories:
damper, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Conscious Magical Dreaming To Eternity
...Sweet dreams are fantastic and enchanting,
The golden wings of brightness are quite chanting,
The natural beauty of songbirds is like fairy dust,
In this dream, I broke down with joy a...
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Categories:
damper, analogy, confusion, dream, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
In Between the Lines
...Their prejudice is embedded in their words, tucked away
Putting a damper on your pride
A laugh and a smile and a claim that it was “just a joke”
And your friends, the ones who have never loved an...
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Categories:
damper, 9th grade, discrimination, identity,
Form: Free verse
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