Up Close with Strangers
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plane, bus 'n train
elevators 'n escalators
revelers 'n sale-day crowds
is where we meet
STRANGERS!
looking away,
with no eye-to-eye contact
no nod, wink, grunt of 'Hi's',
never ever recogn...
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Categories:
escalators, fear, relationship, together, travel,
Form: Free verse
DINOSAUR PEOPLE MOVERS
...History is history drawn by observation to attract
Up and down motion
The thought of the old Dinosaur Escalators at Macy’s Herald Square
The old fossil’s still work
It gets Macy’s customers from ...
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Categories:
escalators, adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
a b c d e f g h
...affable aardvarks amused arbitrators
brash brazen baboons enjoyed escalators
careless careworn camels circled sissy
dark dusky deputies danced until dizzy
eccentric entertaining elephants enthusi...
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Categories:
escalators, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: ABC
Those Days of Covid and Roses
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Those Days of Covid and Roses
4/8/2020
Those days~no, no, not terribly so long ago.
When a theatre was still open with an excellent show!...
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Categories:
escalators, america, angst, imagery, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Escalation
...Escalators work either way
Escalations work either way
Escalators put load on other side
Escalations push load on same side
First is for the physicially disbled
Next is for mentally disbled...
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Categories:
escalators, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Tall Grass Prairie
...The Spirit of God is in the wind that glides across the land-
stirring the tall Blue Stem into billowing waves of grass,
that roll toward snow-topped mountains-
defining the distant horizon-
mou...
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Categories:
escalators, environment,
Form: Free verse
Escalating Elephants
...Is it not pleasurable to endorse an escalation of elephants using escalators in the tree lined shopping centre? Is it not welcomed the sight of strong strength upon steel rotations? Variable tusk equ...
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Categories:
escalators, allah, analogy, animal,
Form: I do not know?
On Both Sides of the Equator
...7/10/17
I'm going to still be a trailblazer
Going beyond all the acres
And glaciers
Above and below any crater
Similarities and differences on both sides of the equator
Events turn...
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Categories:
escalators, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
On Your Birth
...I told the paper seller outside the train station
of your birth that day
he wasn't interested,
but I knew the truth of it
It had been a hard night for your mother
a storm of pain, of emotions o...
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Categories:
escalators, birth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Elevated
...We took our grandson for the day
To visit in the city.
Compared to where he lives, it must seem
Noisy, fast and gritty.
He marveled at the bridges,
The tall buildings and the river,
But there...
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Categories:
escalators, city, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Bodies
...I've been noticing people without passion; a lost sense of pride, no dignity, no doubt. A plague of the mind which I cannot explain in short time; I suppose we can blame technology or the processed f...
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Categories:
escalators, analogy, care, change, education,
Form: Prose Poetry
Public Libraries
...They are high state of art,
renovated or brand new.
In the hallway greets you fountain,
sculpture, statue or the painting.
Escalators, elevators
or the stairs will lead you up.
Decorate...
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Categories:
escalators, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Introspection
...Inside, deep inside, at your window
Near the dim light and mystic shadow
Twinkle your moistened graceful eyes
Rustling leaves of moonlit memories
Opening the gates of many a garden
Sonnets of so...
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Categories:
escalators, assonance, beauty, emotions, garden,
Form: Acrostic
Hope-And a Father Is Could Be
...Hope and…a father is could be
Against all odds and expectations
so many rules and norms and
clever theories society’s demands
cultures and conventions there is
no magic wand no miracle soluti...
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Categories:
escalators, childhood, fantasy, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Spring At Pionerskaya
...SPRING AT PIONERSKAYA
Frozen in the hum of the escalators’
Descent to the roaring metro,
Across the unwashed glass
Of government windows,
The equinoctal sun pins
My shadow tight
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Categories:
escalators, spring,
Form: Imagism
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