Long Close call Poems
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Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown Stray
Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.
Pitching for the Cats is Crazy...
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Categories:
close call, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Heaven's Answer
From the error of my ways
in the blink of one's eyes
falling backwards I called out
Oh God please save me
Inside the crunch mercy echoed
as warm blood soaked the hands
running through fingers...
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Categories:
close call, angel, blessing, faith, god, gospel, miracle,
Form:
Verse
A Tael To Tail
Early in the MOURNING I usually went out,
To ride my bike on a FLOUR filled route.
BUTT because of the WHEATHER, today I changed,
A nice ride in the evening I had arranged.
I found myself riding THREW...
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Categories:
close call, adventure, bible, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Fyi Poem Under Construction
I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...
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Categories:
close call, analogy, conflict, destiny, society, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
My Inner Child Cries Out In This Man
I was four years old with a non existent dream
Just a lonely kid, tryna fit in
And in. between the times when I'm showing up at school
I was with my friends, and I'm acting like a...
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Categories:
close call, bereavement, best friend, childhood, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
The Fear
7/19/2019
This darkness is all I know,
a widow's wardrobe of funeral clothes.
It hangs curtained under my eyes,
the seed inside me grows allowing the little girl I was to die.
Insomniac sleep walking down the streets,...
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Categories:
close call, death, fear, god, introspection, my child, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Death Friended Me On Facebook
(while trapped in Pottstown
Memorial Hospital parking lot).
My humble apology to those,
who posted uber up lyft ting messages
to this Macbook Pro Facebook keeper,
without said scrivener swiftly
tailoring timely acknowledgement
from one harried styled leaper,
thus feel free to...
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Categories:
close call, death, destiny, goodbye, natural disasters, sad, silence,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Our Destiny Is the Dirt
Everybody’s destiny is the dirt
Only question is:
Who’s gonna get buried first
Everybody’s last trip is into the earth
Only question is:
Who’s gonna leave away first
Each decision you make
carries a lot of weight
Some seem big, real important ......
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Categories:
close call, death, destiny, perspective, truth,
Form:
Ode
Denouement
As the sun glow is expelled by darkness,
I pour myself a whiskey and ice,
sitting in my favourite spot to relax,
distant traffic pollution, somehow soothing,
smell of freshly cut garden in the air,
the thoughts of the day’s...
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Categories:
close call, anxiety, care, future, happiness, peace, rainbow, self,
Form:
Free verse
Bulletproof Vest Palpitations
It’s Faint Paddies Day
everyday,
from my oxy scarce commuter view
At this Rocky Mountain skin altitude,
death is always on the dispatch menu
Faint Paddies
be sweating onion fear on a ghetto roll
Cry babies
be diaper blues potty wailing —...
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Categories:
close call, fear, society, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
The Lost Airmen
The mission had been a close run thing
The Japanese had thrown up quite a sting
They had sent up their fighter planes
And the anti-aircraft fire like leaden rain
The other aircraft in Bombing Six
Had been carved up...
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Categories:
close call, death, war,
Form:
Ballad
The Ten Shilling Note
As a very young boy of fourteen I set out one night through the week
To meet my girlfriend from Girl Guides, the beautiful Angelique
It was a dark and windy evening and just as I put...
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Categories:
close call, age, childhood, dad, girlfriend, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Listening To My Body Electric
Mine offset fooey zook equilibrium
translated into at least one raw bit
(hmm...maybe the naughty one) being askew,
which nearly (worse case scenario) critically
could burn up every hair strand fiber optic wired conduit
sans, and destroy the primary, secondary,...
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Categories:
close call, body, earth, fear, fun, grave, imagination, political,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Loaves and Fishes
Rita was visiting. She pointed off the road. Let’s go there. So we did. It was the CIA - Culinary Institute of America. Like Auntie Mame, my aunt was a world traveler, an adventurer. My...
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Categories:
close call, god, life,
Form:
Haibun
Go Sox 3
Game 4 in the World Series sure is something to talk about
In fact, such an exciting game, worth cheers and a shout
In the 5th a Red Sox close call hit to left, almost a home...
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Categories:
close call, baseball, fun, games,
Form:
Rhyme
Lad Humpty Dumpty
When Humpty Dumpty was but a wee lad,
a nurturing and loving mom he had.
She told her son, “Stay out of the sun.
Whatever you do, my child, never run!”
“The sun,” said she, “will boil you hard...
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Categories:
close call, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Close Call In Ireland
CLOSE CALL IN IRELAND
I once had an affaire de coeur with a foxylady, in fact a randy colleen
In Ireland with a tough older brother looking to...
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Categories:
close call, funny, me, old, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Gotta Go
Now, have you ever been ‘caught short’
While traffic-jammed, and can do naught?
You feel the rumble, then you know
That that instant, you've gotta go.
The traffic lights....
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Categories:
close call, humor, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Here, Kitty Kitty
Once upon a time there was an impulsive cat named Bella
A fun loving white and gray small
four-legged meowing furry ball
She loved to sprawl on the doormat
in her owner's humble abode
Bella also had an evil side...
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Categories:
close call, cat, community, hero,
Form:
Narrative
Be Nice
4/21/22
"
Greed I see and spy it
No need for me to hide it
What I seek, still can't find it
If I'm curious about it, I'll try it
If I want it, I'll buy it
There's no need to deny...
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Categories:
close call, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Nation Dieing
My day began as many before, get myself dressed and head out the door.
Rushing to work pushing the minute, im almost late, but i won't admit it.
I get to work, no momment to spare, not...
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Categories:
close call, family, hope, recovery from..., day, work, day,
Form:
Rhyme
The War Is Brewing
The storm is coming; I can hear the thunder in the distance
The war has begun; there will be no resistance
Grab your weapons and your hateful state of mind
Show the enemy who is the most unkind
The...
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Categories:
close call, dark, war,
Form:
Ode
Sister Bears
Deep in the meadow, where deer run wild in the open,
Papa bear was waking his two cubs from their sheltered den.
"Go out and play Cailyn and Jess, go discover something new,
and always...
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Categories:
close call, animal, children, kids, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
Close Call
Call me anytime, anytime you aren't busy
You can call me when you get around to it
I tell you every day, yet never hear anything
Never get a call return, because you are busy
Didn't get a...
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Categories:
close call, absence, brother, depression, family, metaphor,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Close Call
As I read todays Sunday paper,
it brought back a lot of heartache,
it'll be 5 years this coming Wednesday,
when there was a terrible outbreak..
I remember when I was little,
and for the first time saw
The Wizard of...
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Categories:
close call, fear, memory, natural disasters,
Form:
Light Verse