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Double Decker Poems - Poems about Double 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: double 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: double 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: double 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: double decker, poetry,
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: double 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: double decker, adventure,
Form: Narrative

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: double 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: double decker, flower, tree,
Form: Rhyme

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: double 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: double decker, adventure, celebration, holiday, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMom's Birthday

...Mom's photo album (in the attic, somewhere?)
Ah! Found it by an overdue book (from a library, somewhere?)
There's mom with a Mountie (in Canada, somewhere?)
Mom by a natural spring (in Maine, some...
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Categories: double decker, birthday, happy, inspiration, missing,
Form: List

Armchair Qua Laptop Traveler

...Pennilessness disallows me
     luxury tubby globe trekker
hence, my imagination
     takes me random places minus
     the hassles of
     any rubber necker
gawkers always staring
     at maj...
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Categories: double decker, adventure, africa, america, chicago,
Form: Free verse

King of the Dogs

...Asphalt pours into road under melting rubber tires-
A horse with ribs like bars on a prison cell walks lazily under the suns oppression. 
Many people work for peanuts, unhinged cringes at the laugh...
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Categories: double decker, angst, city, culture, environment,
Form: Rhyme

One and Done

...I know I've been to Chicago,
     But I only remember the snow.
I know that I've been to Albuquerque,
     but I mostly just remember the hot marketplace
     with dried chilies twice the length ...
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Categories: double decker, adventure, imagery, time, travel,
Form: Free verse

Whoops

...There once was a bold picidae*
Who pounded his beak just for play
on a double-decker
bus, now his pecker
resembles a flawed fricassee

(*picidae - woodpecker)...
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Categories: double decker, humor,
Form: Limerick

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