Long Drill in Poems

Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document

Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this case)
or listen to a well...

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Roaring engines, wheels on tarmac
Flight 82 is running late
Pilots push the throttle forward
Flight 82 disappears into the black

The nose rises, the speed quickens
G-forces push you through your seat
Inkiness outside the windows thickens
The planes’ destination silently...

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I was going on a vacation with my family one day,
 We thought we would head down Louisiana way.

 It was great being with my wife and daughter, 
 Until I saw a black bird...

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Hiding Under My 3rd Grade Desk
David J Walker 

Mrs. Pollards smile 
Was enough to reassure every member
Of her third-grade class 

That their world was secure 
As the crass voice in the 
Crackling PA speaker announced...

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Useless little words
Why do you mean so much?
Why did you tear so many fragile hearts?
With the pull of your lines…
With the light YANK of your unfinished sentences…
Why did you do this to me, useless little...

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The insatiable greed of man
is draining the earth,
bleeding it dry
Ain't no climate change
is the reason given why
Corrupt men of science selling out,
giving out bogus data
to support the claims of their business patrons
Rich greedy dogs
who never...

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We all went to Swansea 
To see the University
We had a nice lunch by the sea
In a place called Langland Brasserie

And later that same afternoon 
We got back to our hotel room
I settled down for...

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Trying to walk this christian path gets harder by the day.
Sometimes I want to throw my hands up and scream out loudly-No Way!
I know it's wrong to feel  this way but yet it is...

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I had a life
every  door  I opened
I found something great
a rubber-ball ,box of crayons
a fire truck, 
and a dollhouse, I had to duck 
I guess that's my luck
I found a skating board, a...

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They've made their move on
...the last frontier,
too finally drill in the upper tier
put in place is a pawn to cast
endear the voters quick and fast...

Those carpetbaggin' robberbarons,
landgrabbin' venture darin'
big profits they'll be sharin'
nothing else matters...

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Precious the grace of cheer that floods,
Oblige fond feel of happy daze;
Ink writes verse trace in surge of blood,
Glimpse thoughts that drill in void and maze;
Notice the spark the lights the dark,
Attend to spheres of...

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