Long Abbreviations Poems

The HR person called me in… I was turning gray… Was he even twenty-one?
I wondered if the interview would go well, as he did fung shui the chairs around.
Offered a caramel expresso mocha late decaf,...

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My Computer Might Daydream About…

My computer may daydream about,
The Twilight films and the meaning of The Matrix,
The thought behind Star Trek and the point of Star Wars,
Which I repeatedly watch on its DVD Player,
And it...

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I have been an adult one-set diabetic since 1998.  I have developed a point system to help me keep track and better manage my diabetes.

The normal blood sugar range is between 80-130.  In...

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MY AGE

My age is nothing but a number, nothing but a slumber that I can’t wake from, this is what I’ve done. I’ve looked around and found that the matter of the fact is life...

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‘It’ is something many computer salesman don’t know exists
but our laptops wouldn’t be secure without 'it'.
‘It’ is a tiny component, vital for the stability of our computers
Without ‘it’ they would wobble about.

I learned about ‘it’...

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The deep, heartfelt ache,
heaviness piled onto shoulders;
the feeling of unattainable past experiences,
the moments of mere temporary bliss,
the unavoidable changes.

No permanency tacked down,
solely feelings of mourn for the moments that no longer exist.
Nights spent lying awake,
eyes...

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When she really wanted to grow up,
she used to think it must be easier
to be grown than to be small.
She used to think, and she had faith in it,
that if she were a little more...

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Last week I was shopping for ideas on the corner of metaphor and allegory,
Rummaging through a pile of discount words to help me tell a story.

A shelf of very expensive words caught my eye because...

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Words,
And more words.
Written in a binary code of zeros and ones,
Appearing on a computer screen
In a language everyone can understand.
Translated into a structured story,
Speaking to the reader with an easily
Understood message, making
Paper obsolete.
Words can move...

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If I have to move on/regardless won’t lose myself/ alarming like Charlie Chaplin/took a while to get a reaction/ hogging the role of who loves me the most/narcissistic or action figure/ we all gotta grow...

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People tell me to try and be happy
and for them I try
yet how can I
What ways can I
I'm drowning in the cards
Karma dealt to me
I can't drown out the noises, the voices
the candle that burned...

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I have a friend who I visit regularly,
He calls me Smith the Grocer, STG for short,
And when I text him, I sign off with STG,
Sometimes I add other abbreviations for him to guess,
A bit of...

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ABBREVIATIONS

I have this wonderful experience:

6:00 PM 
The opportunity to be with my granddaughters
Aged seven and nine.
Dancing with them with the WII thing
Following the girating bodies in the screen
The fun was priceless  with  these...

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--Her Name is Synesthesia --

 I imagine color so vivid 
  leaving those lips--
   as if a doorway 
to another dimension.

Each hue a photon fingerprint;
appearing in this moment 
a manifestation--
lovely, serene, glowing....

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Why has this word becomes so complicated,
One word but various abbreviations instead

Never did I thought about a daffodil which lay out there
For which just there it gets a few weeks of life,

Gracefully it smiles, making...

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Persecution

Your spewing blasphemy like a teenage rhapsody.
Full of spite, while you delight in the atrocities of vulgar and hate.
Nobody wants to be your mate!
A false bravado; like Watergate.

An obnoxious image trying to intrigue the nations.
While...

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Narrow Incline Converse Say Sean
Hello Sean, listen to me carefully there is the way life is and has become and 
there is the way that people see it from the angle they perceive it from....

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A Teenager Helps His Mother With the Internet

By Elton Camp

Rory’s mom was new to the Internet
The abbreviations she didn’t get

“ROTFL, WTF, STFU I see everywhere.
Explain them, dear, if you don’t care.”

She expected him to help...

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C.I.C.  
Codex Iuris Canonici (Code of Canon Law)
 
HIS
Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus Savor of Mankind)
 
Abbreviation for Responsory / Response
R.
 
Latin words for B.M.V.
Beata Maria Virgo (Blessed Mary the Virgin)
 
Initials F.S.S.P. refer as...

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A period am I; you do not see
me all that much in poems any more.
At times I’m placed by poets awkwardly
before a line is finished! I implore
you, don’t disgrace me. Surely you can use
me easily....

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I struggle with this modern speak
It’s as confusing as can be
Nonsense sentences that are stopped
With a colon and a p               ...

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We are but mixed creations 

needing no abbreviations 

we all form some connection 

but often there is a misconception. 

 

What is color, but a hue 

and racist words, nothing new 

where does it say,...

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Cracking poison pills
along fault lines and blue insignias
we laughed.
How we riddled the world
in often misguided abbreviations and pith.
Pouring the beads of pin head size
into the water we drink and breathe
we waited.
How we ordered the waves
to...

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He wrote.. Gm gorgeous (smiley face, kissy face)
She wrote.. Gm
He wrote (smiley kissy)

She wrote.. Don't cuz I'm a woman of words.. I'm recalling the saying "I got two F's to give" Could be wrong way...

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Life, has a hard future; to travel,
Ups and downs; we try to unravel.
I like many, learned many things
As in happiness and sorrow brings.

Things I learned in life are mine.
Some are sour; some are sweet.
Some full...

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