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In Real Time Poems - Poems about In Real Time

Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later

...On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward ...
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Categories: in real time, anniversary, change, endurance, life,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIn the time loop, I'll fall in love with you again and again

...In the time loop, I'll fall in love with you again and again,
Not in a café or park, but where time itself breaks,
A moment that resets every nineteen minutes,
As if the universe stumbles over the...
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Categories: in real time, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGenocide in Real Time

...We cowardly witnessed the genocide of many human beings
Live, live, live in real time
That was an odious, callous and vicious crime
We said nothing, absolutely nothing about the sad and...
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Categories: in real time, anti bullying, color, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

PAPER LOVE

...She said, "Your love lives on pages"
Not in real-time, not in life stages
Every kiss was a line you rehearsed
Needed your heart, not merely a verse

I gave her metaphors for fire
She just wante...
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Categories: in real time, allusion, break up, conflict,
Form: Lyric

The Mage Whispers

...The Mage Whispers

Do you see past your reality tunnels

Your every day to day
Safe plays

As your Geiger Counters
Ticks left to right
As it slowly sways

Do you see the struggles
Of life...
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Categories: in real time, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberInnuendos Don’t Behave

...Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
In his tongue.
Whose tongue?
Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
What, with my tongue in your tail?
   Nay, come again, Goo...
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Categories: in real time, celebrity, dance, lust,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTime 1984

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Time is a funny thing,
time does not always seem real.
Governments and their rulers,
come and go.
Some are good to their people and country,
while others only destroy.
Can they be bro...
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Categories: in real time, books, life, time, today,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAzure Vistas

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"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories: in real time, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Purple Heart

...This is about a dove both old & new
whom I loved 
through & through
She's coming through like a wave in
tidal form that can only be surfed
from 5 to 2
She lives only in rooms I've tucked
away ...
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Categories: in real time, feelings, love, meaningful, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Thoughts of the Man from 2027

...As I sometimes sit on my own
Seduced beyond all strands of decency and morality 
By my ever watchful and listening telephone 

I know each day I'm one step away from abandoning integration 
And ...
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Categories: in real time, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

To journey through life as a black person

...walking through life as as a black person, 
the world needs to understand 
we rock with a rhyme, we bop with a beat
we jive like a jazz band 

we improvise on the fly
we adapt to any situation
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Categories: in real time, black african american, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThe Scenic View

...falling rain, droplet by droplet
pane pain pane
sipping on leaves
fall falling
failing to see

leaves livestock
lumbering, conceited
between the pages
their veins throbbing
as a moppet scri...
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Categories: in real time, autumn, child, rain,
Form: Free verse

Why Humans Stop Building For Wonders

...Because wonder has morphed
Building an edifice of beauty 
Is no longer magnificent
The plan in going to Mars
Communicating with others 
From around the globe in real time
Are to believe all mir...
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Categories: in real time, art, beauty, science, technology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Alchemy of Truth a song

...[short instrumental intro]
[thick bassline]
[energetic beat]

[verse 1]
The alchemy of truth,
may be from a particular perspective,
or colored by youth,
and sprinkled with objective.
For you...
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Categories: in real time, philosophy, truth,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThink and feel

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I see it now and I see it clear. Generations before saw their ways of life disappear. Now it’s us and now it’s here.

Technology does not feel pain or fear.

Where joy was found for hours throw...
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Categories: in real time, absence, abuse, addiction, AI
Form: Free verse

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