Long Airstrip Poems

My Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...

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I have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said. 
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly 
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time...

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They crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our quarters looking for...

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Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. 
Guttersnipe snipe,
 stipe snipe ripe,
 a wipe type a tripe, 
unleash a...

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CONTROL TOWER No PoWeR FROM-a SNOW SHOWER BlOw hOuR,

AIRPLANE, 
InSaNe

PATHWAY,
AsTrAy

BY-WAY
DeCaY

AIRPORT,
DiStOrT

TARMAC,
FaRbAcK

AIRSTRIP,
A-bLiP

BOWER,
ScOuR

STANDING,
LaNdInG

"ON THE GROUND SaFe AnD sOuNd, THANK YOU GOD, *AmEn."
*amen: uttered (at the end...)            ...

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A Twist of Fate

Can a single action change destiny’s flow?
A friend called him up just yesterday, you know.
It had been ages since they last met,
Memories stirred, and their hearts were all set.

After some chatter, sharing...

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When I am broke
I write a poem
I make myself the hero
In my poem, nobody can stop me
Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz 
Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip
That car is sleek and...

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Litter bearers burst unexpectedly 
in with a casualty.  Sergeant Lindsey 
grabs one pole end, then BOOM!, the roof and rear
end of our frail little hooch disappear.  

A swirl of black, smokey blue sky...

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The first time the Japanese were stopped in World War 2... 
was 7th of September 1942...(Before Gaudacanal fight was finished)...they retreated then
back  to Rabaul after heavy fighting with the Aussies in the muddy swamp...

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Microlight


When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles
dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene
blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning breeze
rainbow spectrum gone haywire, in the azure June sky
they were flaunting metallics,...

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__________________   RAG BAGGER


      What is a blowboat
      which way does the warm wind blow
      Im lashed to the...

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From Rusizi in Rwanda 
lies a historical site that is linked to the Musinga history, 
a palace next to the elegant tree (umuvumu) in the Rukali village
behind the Kamembe Airstrip in Rusizi district
our roots are...

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though i’ve no sympathy for the “devil”
(as there exists no such thing),
i got to feel that one must have 
sympathy for the visitors---
if any self-respecting alien
felt the need to stop their space cruiser
on the way...

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Book a trip
On board the Great Railways
In mysteries and histories of your nation
Riding from destination to destination;
Saddle up for other trails to blaze
With each page you flip.

Book a trip
On board the wings of flight
And fly...

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We agree before any trip 
Exactly how livestock will ship
But with notice not
Venezuelans got
To the Martha’s Vineyard airstrip


Author's note: Pundits and politicians say Governor DeSantis of Florida treats immigrants like livestock or animals, which is...

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I do not wanna subjugate all my laws
At the gates and above center of the 
                   ...

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The red tail light of the 737 flashed rhythmically against the dark skyline

It taxied its approach on the runway, everything was set, it all looked fine

She looked out the window across the dark land wondering...

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A clear view of the Arabian blue
I don’t ‘inch’ closer, I ‘mile’ ahead 
In a relaxed cockpit, shared by two.

A proud teacher, my knowledge I spread
‘To fly they must have flown before’
Break this infinite loop;...

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It doesn't matter how long
I have been on this ship,
it doesn't  matter how long
I have been on this plane,
nor does it matter the time I spend on this road,
looking for solidarity,
It is just a...

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Aboard Harry S Truman, CVN 75
Monumental battle ship, 
Within her hull, she seemed alive

Floating city, hauling a deadly airstrip
Creating peace, in the middle East, with the fatal Tomcat
Crew headed for a six month defensive trip

American...

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