Footnotes Poems - Poems about Footnotes

We all become stories at the end of the day The true and the false the black and the grey The plot lines will vary the ends in due course As history remembers with joy — and remorse (Dreamsleep: February, 2025) ...

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Not for nothing does the light prick my eyes, a thirst for walking shoes tightens ankle bones that parachute out of an inner attic landing awkwardly into the open throats of sneakers still clutching their tendons. Out from under a dim tented roof the world is overrun with Asterix's small confusing marks that suggest footnotes and disclaimers, warnings that you should not take anything as actually actual. Seriously sober,...

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i have several feet stinky feet dry feet sweaty feet scaly feet aching feet flat feet and barking dog-tired feet it just does not seem right that they are all attached to the same toes...

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God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth! God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth! God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from 'Sun' AND 'Outer Space!') (2) Auspicious forces nurture all of life on Earth (were you aware?) Its gentle touch kept sailing ships...

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The Greatest Gift of All? (A Finite Human Lifespan) There is pleasure in 'knowing' this life will be ending, the space my flesh occupies 'opening up' for 'not me(s)' though my life has been great (I'd say fun for the most part!) 'Term limits' get my vote (more moral than murder most days (though this option considered gives pause to some...

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Footnotes to the crime mankind divided the ruination of the kingdom earth bleeding into Stardust a time lost and forgotten in footnotes to the crime desolation prime time is at hand the real ruination of man division of this land the lost kingdoms of the earth tragic in scope leading in the cosmic rush a footnote...

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Strewn on the shoreline, as I walk along the beach Bits and pieces of life forms, churned up from beneath Shells, jellyfish, crustaceans, even sea anemones What was alive yesterday, lays shredded in the weeds Hard to fathom what happens, below ocean waves, One big stewing pot, perhaps a connoisseurs buffet, Before me are remnants, of this very watery grave, 4 billion...

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Over the head of each metatarsal you can see where each has been pounded; some are more abused than others. Over the years new prominences and depressions form and reform. Surreal faces appear within the lines of the skin, features that now seem to look inward as if the hammer had become that which it had once beaten. In the tenderness of your age if...

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A book with no cover, a man with no name Vowels dormant and muted, as consonants reign A plot with no purpose, an ending refrained Its message in conflict —with footnotes of pain (Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)...

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Well for those who know me, and are wondering, I have finally posted the foot notes to that poem as promised!!!! :) Hope you laugh and enjoy, I may later post the lyrics in both French and English here for fun. If you are a member here, please post any comments under the poem...

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