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Discs Poems - Poems about Discs

Future Archaeology

...You just will not believe what we
found in the desert sands,
a city lost a thousand years
out in the western lands!
I led the dig that found the place,
and I’ve got to tell you,
what we’ve dug ...
...
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Categories: discs, city, confusion, fun, future,
Form: Rhyme

Blueberry Pancakes

...Blueberry delight in discs
of golden brown.  Each
bite, berry delight.  Smothered
in melted butter
and maple syrup.
Taste summer
bliss....
...
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Categories: discs, feelings, food,
Form: Free verse



Oreo

...The night before my father’s heart attack,
my brother and I were splayed across a bed
watching a re-run of “Happy Days”
and eating Oreo cookies.

My father sat stiff and upright
in a wooden cha...
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Categories: discs, childhood, dad, death, grief,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPsychedelic

...The colors of the flowers are vibrantly swaying
The wind caresses them it seems with kisses, 
whispering sweet nothings inside cheery cores
Daisy’s white pearly petals are speaking
Yellow sepals ...
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Categories: discs, beautiful, beauty, happy, how
Form: Haibun

RESOLUTION OF RESOLUTION

...Beta and the VHS
Could not be beaten years ago.
A childhood of watching tapes...
These were standard video.

Then throughout my teenage years
The DVD was made.
The quality was noticeable
Beca...
...
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Categories: discs, film, technology, time,
Form: Rhyme



April 13 Signal First Contact

...
In the movie, the” signal” 
An Astronaut receives 

A signal from an alien spaceship 
Heading to earth 

The alien repeats the word 
Hello in multiple languages
While heading to Earth.

T...
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Categories: discs, science fiction, space, stars,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberLiminal Space-Surreality

...Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy 
Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
Blends of subversive elements and anxious acous...
...
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Categories: discs, confusion, surreal,
Form: Rhyme

Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to ...
...
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Categories: discs, absence, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBells

...
Multitudinous bells secern the tones
as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones.

Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding,
others that linger with tedious ring.

Some little bells can echo a jin...
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Categories: discs, celebration, christmas, funeral, music,
Form: Couplet

Trial of Red and White Fire

...Centuries ago

In ancient Hermopolis

A debate roared loud

Between a proud Christian priest

And a strange shepherd

Who was a Manichaean

Wearing ragged clothes

And who was looking f...
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Categories: discs, beautiful, fire, religion, religious,
Form: Choka

Mercury Series

...Mercury
An Angel Having Recently Visited You
Sent back Metal Film
of Your Ancient shores
Cratered silver with loneliness

the Humming of Silver Tides
Or discs bent longingly
With long lonely ...
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Categories: discs, 1st grade, 8th grade,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberGreenery

...after the rain, wildflowers bend like
                         wilted men wrapped in age and bliss
fragments of longing and belonging
in wet that sustains a warming world 
                       ...
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Categories: discs, beauty, earth, environment, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Utopian Way

...To exist within a utopian society is
Of great  opportunity.  A perfect way
Where existing means living by 
Obligations to the utopian way. 
A deep desirable Devotion must be
Counted  of the char...
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Categories: discs, celebration, character, life, love,
Form: Epic

Polylepis

...To be a polylepis tree you gotta know 
You're a polylepis tree & this knowing 
Cements by being a polylepis tree,
Knowing between diagrammatic cracks
Fork'd already info knowing during descent.
...
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Categories: discs, adventure, allegory, art, death,
Form: Free verse

Leon Byner Has Left the Building

...Leon Byner has left the building 
After 23 years of people bargaining
He was the people’s voice to be heard
And on most things he was undeterred 

I remember him spinning discs in the 60s and 70...
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Categories: discs, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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