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Decker Poems - Poems about Decker

Premium Memberi've just played santa for the first time

...i'm talking world war three blues
and how the baubles resemble the planet neptune
one kid has trashed the grotto
flameless LED tea light candles on the mantlepiece  

another exclaims, 'can we s...
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Categories: decker, adventure, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus

...On Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus

mother pauline boards the big greyhound double decker 
her freckled son goes before her wearing a cub scout cap
hurry up she says as they climb the stairs to t...
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Categories: decker, america, memory, mother son,
Form: Free verse



HOW CAN I PRETEND : PART 1

...HOW CAN I PRETEND ? 
PART 1

How can I pretend when 
flutters across my chest only 
prickle as your thought 
arrives with doubt or hope 
What is hope anyway ?
A flimsy wish built upon 
a mat...
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Categories: decker, 12th grade, character, courage,
Form: Bio

London By Night

...The red double-decker, is not crowded,
A late night and I am riding home dog tired.
She's sitting two rows ahead of me,
but I can see her reflection in the window,
it's easy to see that she is as...
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Categories: decker, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Argh No More Medicare

...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!

A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out....
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Categories: decker, 12th grade, absence, america,
Form: Free verse



Kafkaesque

...I ponder whose hands concertina time.
Sometimes my brain wakes up 40 years younger
for a few moments I am vital,
perfectly formed and a smile for every eye.
Other times though, I arrive in the wo...
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Categories: decker, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCatonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure

...Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure


When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the da...
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Categories: decker, adventure,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberHeres Why My CV Needs Work

...NAME: Phil Latio.

QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet    
                           Commander).

POSITION: Head job.

AGE: pass.

SEX: I don’t like bei...
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Categories: decker, humorous,
Form: List

Premium MemberThe Forest, Never To Return, Part 1

...March came in like a lion
And never let up, not really 
The children, Markie and Stu, spent most of their day outside
Except, as usual, for a quick lunch and a quicker hug

In the country, the d...
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Categories: decker, scary, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Addingham

...(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of gre...
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Categories: decker, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf I Were

...[written for ‘If I Were’ contest, but not entered because, well, I just couldn’t help myself]


If I were a seagull, I’d sit in a tree 
I’d poop on the flower that sits beneath me
(A pretty good...
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Categories: decker, flower, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Wildlife 8

...Wildlife 8
A musical young green woodpecker,
Loved the music of old Desmond Decker,
He would sing every song,
But the words he got wrong,
So his friends called him 'Desmond the Wrecker'!...
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Categories: decker, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAll In a Day

...Nothing like new polished shoes,
new dress, when restarting school,
up the bus in one and twos,
warm jacket, embroidered wool!
Cackle of sounds and laughter,
words without weighted wisdo...
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Categories: decker, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThoughts On Winter Solstice Day

...When mapping something out 
It should be a subject thought about 
Beginning, middle and the finale 
Everything is there says Rand McNally 
But from the depths below 
A mystery creating ocean wak...
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Categories: decker, adventure, celebration, holiday, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Forest, Never To Return

...March came in like a lion
And never let up, not really 
The children, Markie and Stu, spent most of their day outside
Except, usually, for a quick lunch and a hurried hug

In the country, the da...
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Categories: decker, anxiety, conflict, confusion, dark,
Form: Narrative

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