One Night In Venice
...'twas 'pon a Venice 24-hour layover, when two male members of our airline crew had quite the separate, yet different, adventure.
Flight attendant Number One, who speaks Italian, thought it wo...
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Categories:
layover, humorous, sleep, woman,
Form: Narrative
HOLOGRAPHIC JAZZ
...(Snaps fingers, adjusts imaginary beret) Alright, listen up/ hitching a ride on the infinite subway/ strapped in tight/ destinations unknown/ no layover/LSD boosting, pushing past the earthly zone/
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Categories:
layover, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Society as few know it
...Veracious vanity about victories over
veils shows vain values corrupted by
vicious volatile villains in hopes for
votive to vindicate,
Grossly gluttons gain grains over
gloomy groups of gha...
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Categories:
layover, allusion, political, society,
Form: Alliteration
FAITH AIRLINES
...Flight 888
Get ready to soar
Reserved seating
Specialized spiritual cuisine
Buckle up
Welcome Aboard
Sponsored by the Lord
Everlasting Recline
Rejoicing on the mind
Embraced blessing
No tur...
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Categories:
layover, appreciation, blessing, care, christian,
Form: Free verse
Ground of Solace
...She bursts into her room shattered,
For everyone else, she didn’t matter.
Giving them every love they deserved,
She derived every betrayal meant for her to be crumbled.
She did find someone's sho...
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Categories:
layover, anxiety, cry, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Around the Us On a Greyhound Bus - Part One
...I once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus,
My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss,
It was, by far, the most awesome adventure I ever took
Three changes of clothes, lots of...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, america, places, travel,
Form: Narrative
The View From Ceres
...A big blue marble, floating in the middle of nowhere like a tiny attractive spark.
Its shimmering light penetrates the darkness of space like a candle in the dark.
How perfectly it has been pl...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, appreciation, birth, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Memorable Vacation
...SEVEN years after 911, and twelve years before COVID-1...
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Categories:
layover, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Try Again
...So many times said no to
never among the chosen few
weary yet moving ahead
rejection a feeling I dread
So I will try again
many a time have I wept
silently feeling inept
thought sooner I sha...
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Categories:
layover, courage, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Tokyo Disneyland Adventure
...Long ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map that...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, humor,
Form: Narrative
Daylight Shouts On Market Street
...Daylight swerves around the road
Shouting from corner to corner
Morning comes alive
The traffic starts rolling
And people start flowing
I walk briskly up the road
And walk along Market Street
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Categories:
layover, anger, appreciation, character, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Humongous Amount of Horn Humanistic Haiku
...Humongous Amount of Horn Humanistic Haiku
we have heard in spring
beautiful birds when they sing
happiness will bring
animals all crawl
from late spring into the fall
heard birds when they ...
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Categories:
layover, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Boarding
...planning a trip
planning to see
as much as one
can possibly
take in
taking you out
dinner with stars
in my eyes
blinded by
moonlight
drinking my fill
steaming my
glasses as if
the sw...
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Categories:
layover, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Run Away
...Run Away
Ticket counter still open but
no planes departing
Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM
(Twelve Hours to nowhere)
Bag packed with who knows what.
Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered o...
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Categories:
layover, absence, addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Mordacious Wind
...The wizened hunter had but one cartridge
remaining this was no trifle matter.
For he’d been attacked by a hungry horde
of rats when he took shelter in this cave.
And now a mordacious wind was m...
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Categories:
layover, angst, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
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