All Stars
...Don’t you see the skip of my jolly heels,
skipping about the globe while planting stars?
Ask then from mother earth what joy she feels
When my rubber sole and her corners spar.
In offices, they...
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Categories:
gurneys, beauty, celebration, childhood, clothes,
Form: Quatrain
Canning Berries
...April was the koolest month
we walked in the green uprising,
to gather berries,
would eat them as we trekked
the crunching woods.
It was1999 and the sky was clear
for months after;
we had ti...
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Categories:
gurneys, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Murdering Doctor
...You are a doctor who is a murdering psychopath.
You hate certain people and they suffer your wrath.
When a patient is racist, you think it gives you the right to kill her or him.
You think that yo...
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Categories:
gurneys, evil, hate, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Ambulance Chasers
...Ambulance chasers
have morphed into
Civil Rights Attorneys...
salivating at the gurneys – a big
paycheck a chance to obtain,
making a living by inflaming
already blood-red, fiery pain –
C...
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Categories:
gurneys, community, inspirational, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Honoring Sacrifice
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Honoring Sacrifice
By: Tom Wright
4/24/04
For country, they chose to honor a call,
now, the piercing sound of a rifle’s report.
An echoing trumpet, sadly says it all.
let us hero ou...
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Categories:
gurneys, death of a friend,
Form: Lyric
My Chemical Romance
...Sunsets pass, grass keeps
growing, over your grave and
around your mausoleum.
Tarnished and faded names,
just like your ghost. It's not like
we ever planned this, but it's
not like we never saw ...
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Categories:
gurneys, loss
Form: I do not know?
Sunday Sanitarium
...You knew by then there wasn't much left,
except wandering sterile halls--
amid blackened lungs;
Where time meant nothing--
fading into insipid yesterdays,
knitting needles complicating--
to...
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Categories:
gurneys, death, life, loss
Form: Free verse