NIGHT TIME BOY
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Night Time Boy
It’s almost nine o’clock and its time to go to bed
So climb under your covers and rest your weary head,
Get yourself real comfy and I’ll tuck you nice and tight
And tell me of ...
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Categories:
ejector, boy, character, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...
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Categories:
ejector, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Russian Fighter Pilots Are Cowards
...As I sit in my seat
My life is complete
As I look down to the ground
My target I have not yet found
Nor will it be, at least not by me
Because for me at least
In my ejector seat
That doesn...
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Categories:
ejector, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
9 Mm
...Nine parts of nine millimeter.
Trigger
Magazine
Barrel
Slider
Hammer
Main Spring
Recoil Spring
Extractor
Ejector.
Note. Violence breeds violence....
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Categories:
ejector, abuse, anger, anxiety, body,
Form: List
Up, Up and Away
...My old mate, Dan, has a hole in his roof
It’s really not like him to tell you the truth
He maintains his house so it’s sound as a pound
But I don’t know why he’s nowhere to be found
Dan’s a wa...
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Categories:
ejector, humor, military, war, world
Form: Rhyme
Theodore Travels
...Stuck on a hybrid labyrinth race track in undue course
Crash helmet cracked under the raw tempo of stagnation
Chequered flags waving but a motor running against the clock
In reverse and the ...
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Categories:
ejector, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Rocket Man : Still Flying
...Rocket Man : Still flying
It’s cold as Hell up here in outer space.
I left the old me way behind.
It’s hard to see that there’s another way.
I always said that I wanted to fly.
But now I...
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Categories:
ejector, flying, imagery, journey, music,
Form: I do not know?
The Worlds First and Only
...Magical Pilot turned his plane
into the side of a mountain
An app i dont need
Man on the sun
Pepsi in the coke can
Harry Potter themed funeral
Trying to put the sorting hat
on the corpse
Bott...
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Categories:
ejector, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Was Not Consulted
...I WAS NOT CONSULTED
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Here I am, I was not consulted
But unceremoniously evicted
Into the cold uncaring world
Stranger then handed me furled
Into the hands of my ejector...
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Categories:
ejector, character, creation, culture, i
Form: Rhyme
Fifty Some Years Ago
...(Taking headlines from October 1964,
the poem revisits our shared experience ...)
Monday 5: Fifty-Four East Germans Tunnel to Freedom
Back then, it was not in doubt,
(Richard Burton Tony Quin...
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Categories:
ejector, history, , cute, ,
Form: Rhyme
What Might Have Been
...Piles of regrets gather dust in draws,
If only I had a feather duster.
How often fleeting chances missed,
If only da...
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Categories:
ejector, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the Boys Set Out To Fly
...Larry was the oldest, seemed every day he grew
Bubbling with mischief, like a cackling witches brew
At the time just 10 or so, but that’s a long way back
Humorously independent, the jo...
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Categories:
ejector, adventure, childhood, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
1 Mile High
...1 mile high
In Saudia Arabia they are building a shack
going to be a mile high
With parachutes for the top floors, Jack
F15 ejector seats stand by
Lower floors have slides
And some have ...
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Categories:
ejector, adventureflying,
Form: Rhyme