In a Plane
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Eight hours cooped up in a plane
entubed in fuselage can put a strain
on buttocks squeezed into a seat
with no stretching room for feet.
Add to that the high-pitched cry
of a backseat woman’...
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Categories:
fuselage, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Most Passengers On This 12-Hour-Flight Are Watching Lethal Weapon
...I noticed whilst walking up and down the thing
What's going on here I thought
I had been given a middle seat
In what I consider to be the worst flight I have ever experienced
The two passengers e...
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Categories:
fuselage, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse
Sitkan Spice Merchant
...Fish flesh ceiling marinades evening in mandarin
Paprika streaks Alaskan sky, an exploded pumpkin
Garish stretch marks bruise tumid buttocks
Jack-o'-lantern flicker silhouettes summits
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Categories:
fuselage, allusion, animal, bird, red,
Form: Couplet
Unscheduled Flight
...A black fly in midwinter
has burgled the warm air of the kitchen.
It struggles for height,
a brittle-winged air-bender
reaching for plateaus,
higher footstools,
grasping for spice shelves
or...
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Categories:
fuselage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Aerodynamics of Thought
...In class, the aerodynamics of thought -
the engineer commandeers our papers.
She wears a blindfold over mouth and nose,
trains us on how to crease and navigate.
The solid white and dotted lines...
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Categories:
fuselage, adventure, allusion, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Shadows 'Agear' Shattered Anon
...It was not only the losers that were staging a hasty exodus around the airport.Largely outnumbering them were native frantic runaways.
Like goaded gazelles, pell-mell, they yelled at hell
where ...
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Categories:
fuselage, flying, sad,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Wrong Military Strike
...Blood-soiled hands waiting for a mere barrage!
Soldiers in camouflage
Who had at hapless souls fired in a fuselage,
Several times hitting the four- times smart mirage;
In their honest opinion ave...
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Categories:
fuselage, anger, death, fate, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Night Plane
...Airplane traveling in the night
enters the darkness
floats from cloud to cloud
City lights reflect on the fuselage
It flies with soft pace
She flies silently above
Passing through the houses ...
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Categories:
fuselage, city, flying, future, good
Form: Free verse
Demon In a Red White and Blue Cape
...I'd rather be trapped in an elevator with Hannibal Lecter than be in the presence of Homelander
He flew inside a doom plane full of innocent people
He stop the terrorist from commandeering and ...
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Categories:
fuselage, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Ballad
To the Clouds Above
...Smoking, choking, back slapping bloking,
false bonhomie in the dawns grey light.
Coffee drinking, tired eyes blinking,
rimmed red from lack of sleep that night.
Nervous twitching, raw skin itch...
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Categories:
fuselage, flying, remember, war,
Form: Rhyme
Crookedness and Clowns
...They channelized the news
the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably
taking the opportunity by storm
by the contortions of varsity
they proclaimed so devoutly
the new acceptable norm
of an alrea...
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Categories:
fuselage, anxiety, society, today,
Form: Free verse
Whispers
...Do you hear the whispers?
They are all around for those who listen.
I prefer to ignore the noise,
For out of darkness the voices are risen.
He did this, and she did that;
If it needs to be spoke...
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Categories:
fuselage, feelings, heartbreak, judgement, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Echoes of the Heart
...lub dub, lub dub echoes of the heart
just one sound that will tear it apart
its reins will tighten and choke the air sacks
fuselage lines squeezed from the fortress of plaques
the alarm is o...
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Categories:
fuselage, health, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Enola Gay
...Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum ...
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Categories:
fuselage, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
Margins of Pandora
...Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun
The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia
Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks ...
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Categories:
fuselage, farewell,
Form: Free verse
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