The Gallery, The Gala, Larry, Part 1
...There, mustardseed scatter’d on firm cement
Frank’s sense all but gone as architect-
ural borders take shape: the cloister sports
Blue-green algae tanks | engineer-BREW
guard’d by python & htm...
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Categories:
exxon, allegory, allusion, art, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Gen X 1965-1980
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Gen X or the
MTV generation.
See a big growth in the
Dept. of education.
A generation of latchkey
Kids home alone.
Rocky hits the box office,
With Sylvester Stallone....
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Categories:
exxon, childhood, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
We Thought It Would Go Even Higher
...Big oil has its hands in our pocket
Pump prices rose like a rocket
It was just a ruse
Designed to confuse
The voters who vote with their wallet
Inflation to voters does smell
And affects ...
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Categories:
exxon, humor, money, political, repetition,
Form: Limerick
Stop Taking Her For Grant It
...We exploit her gifts, polluting, robbing.
Mother earth has a soul and we've
all heard her sobbing..
Too many species are now extinct.
We need to slow down, reassess, think..
Exxon, Shell, Chevro...
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Categories:
exxon, 1st grade, earth,
Form: Light Verse
Just Passing Through
...Passing through for a short time
Just stopped in to tell you “Hey”,
nothing specific on my mind.
Haven’t had much to say.
Been over a year since I wrote a single word,
or been able to finish ...
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Categories:
exxon, friendship, happiness, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Exxon At the Edge of Arcadia
...Strange signpost of circling destiny - an Exxon station,
perched at the crossroads of State Highway 95
and Farm to Market Road 1331.
Almost certainly without its own knowledge
serving as the gate...
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Categories:
exxon, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Nice Images
...Your poems have
nice images.
I can't use them.
They don't drive trucks,
weld, or pour cement.
I can't wear them
like boots in the snow.
They won't keep my head
dry in the rain.
I l...
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Categories:
exxon, humor, humorous, image, nice,
Form: Light Verse
Wheel On a Stick Part 10
...The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing
Radiant
A pilgrimage of enlightenment undertaken by Bob the Plumber after experi...
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Categories:
exxon, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
...The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A we...
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Categories:
exxon, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
Master of Disaster and Plaster
...Remember this? On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a
reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill.
Though there were no human victims of the crash, hu...
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Categories:
exxon, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Everywhere a Sign
...It was a day like all the rest as off to work I went
Surely to face a new test for as such is life meant
But this time as I went I prayed in a different way
And the message He sent I'll never forget ...
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Categories:
exxon, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Street Life
...Mug of Joe
Tarp hung low
Living under an over pass
Is better than dancing in jail
Day old butts
And dumpster meals
A cart with just three wheels
Got a place staked out
On the corner of Main
Cardboard...
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Categories:
exxon, addiction, character, city, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Rename America Exxon
...We should rename America and call it Exxon.
Salute their new flag at the rise of dawn.
To ten of our highest ranking officials, Exxon is their top contributor.
So do you really think that they wi...
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Categories:
exxon, epic
Form: Rhyme
Pucka Parker Rest In Peace
...It all started five decades ago, when her gift of imagination began to grow.
She was the youngest of five and could not wait for her to arrive.
Velvety soft skin so fair, along with lots of curly ...
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Categories:
exxon, age, childhood, for her,
Form: Narrative
Right and Wrong
...Tears in the tar
carried far
cry the dolphin
to a passing star
...help us…
see the gulls
who now don’t fly
see the whales
who search for sky
coast of destruction
while they all stand by….
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Categories:
exxon, nature
Form: I do not know?
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