Long Commute Poems

Give me a moment before you judge harshly. Given the facts, don't get manipulated by honesty. I know that help is required but never spoken of. Can't deny the need but respect the love. ...

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Shane walked to the back of the bar and found the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the bar and the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two...

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Shane walks in, hurries to the back of the bar. He finds the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two lights...

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*Written using 25 Beatles hit song titles. Revised a bit for 2024

It's been a hard day's night, my love. Tonight, I want to hold your hand and keep you close. Beloved one please, love me,...

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I woke up this morning with no intended plan
I had no clue as to where I will go next, 
But I felt bold and strong like superman
I am tired of the East and I am...

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Irelands uprising in ninteen sixteen was crushed by the state
The ringleaders were arrested and death would be their fate
Charged with the crime of treason against the British Crown
Fifteen men faced a firing squad and without...

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My commute was about half an hour, and I was due at work at 9am.
Normally, most of my news came when I was driving, which was what
I did for a living at the time. I...

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Spit free roads with no traffic
Pit free streets of designs prolific
Rich cultural heritage and intellect
Folks-full of compassion and perfect
Discipline innate and mission oriented
Pupils are prodigal and celebrated
Duty seems to safeguard their land
All the nations are...

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I was a capable, urban professional, quite eagerly living the high life;
Like pink robin, of the saffron noon zenith, afore shadows bloom rife.

My daily work was very challenging, and it allowed me to be creative;
Like...

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This Christmas, I am moved by the names in the genealogy of Jesus.                      ...

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Tell all the worlds about the treasures found
Renaissance trace spellbound in the ancient form,
Tender and haunting; an era of time curves around
Past the present to a future beset with tech charm.

Historical pages cling romantically to...

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I'm not the greatest of all-times, but when I'm done,
I'll be an all time great in this lifetime of mine
Like the late great who came before my time
I will breed a new lifeline, that will...

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Wake.
Commute.
Work.
Repeat.

They call this living?

I call it the hamster wheel—
spinning faster each year
while the cage only shrinks.

Three jobs to afford one roof.
Two hours of daylight between shifts.
One life slipping through fingers
calloused from climbing ladders
that only lead...

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I know you know what happened the year we graduated. Just like everything else, it trickled down the grape vine. We were seniors when SHE said she wanted a blue dress for prom. SHE wanted...

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He had been in a deep dream, searching for a lost puppy
When the clanging alarm startled him to reality
The clear images fading like a burning photograph
Then, a desperate sense of unrecoverable loss

Lying on a couch,...

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I had been in a deep dream, searching for a lost puppy
When the clanging alarm startled me to reality
The clear images fading like a burning photograph
Then, a desperate sense of unrecoverable loss

Lying on a couch,...

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Hey there I been eyeing YOU
BEEN fantasizing about a rendezvous 
Wanna make your commute home
 one you look forward to
Have you been wanting ME 
the way I've I been wanting YOU?
Do u mind if I...

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I'm the family treasure, a Christmas gift 
    to grant the children's wish.
My first time out I stray away 
    and start rolling in a fish.
I flap my tongue...

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Although the name, Tat Tvam Asi, was new to me, the thought and meaning were not unfamiliar.
If I say that I am closed minded, would you judge me and set me apart as one incarcerated?
If...

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FLEAS


Alarm clock   shows   Saturday   7 30. Yes, please!
More sleep  - a professional  delight for this catcher of fleas. 
For the  present,   I’m working from...

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Lyrics are sung to the music of 
David Bowie’s “Panic in Detroit”


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Good Evening, the BBC presents
The highlights from the days events

I pass you now to Sally Hughes
Who brings you all the evening news

Today in Paris, bomb explode, did
With paralise, electric grid
The Gendarme closed major routes
While soldiers...

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x number of hours from
a to b, and while certainly it can always be worse,
it could always be better---
the fact remains that there are mother****ers in the cities
who don’t have to get up early &...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6

(NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice, I.e., 11. Eleven syllables to the line in iamb or...

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I ain't gonna brag, boast, blab...,
lest yours truly suffers demise from backstab,
resignedly taking wheel of our automobile
donning, (but NOT trumpeting) 
role as taxi cab

shuttling the missus, (she effusively glad)
to medical appointment
me, the obliging husband
in order...

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