Long Lock step Poems
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The Pied Piper From New York City - Part OneThe Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
lock step, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
Couples CounselingMy early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great WhiteMan's sacrificial lamb.
His First, and hopefully last, Girl
is an ADHD Latina,
with sparkling...
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Categories:
lock step, earth, games, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Argh Daylight Savings Time Ends Two Am November 6th 2022Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022
Hour hands of o'clock get set back
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November
every year, what a bum
er,...
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Categories:
lock step, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Daylight Savings Time Ends November 5th 2023 MeansDaylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...
discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.
Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs earlier as the world turns
beckoning, hinting, robbing passage...
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Categories:
lock step, autumn, business, confusion, dark, father, light, november,
Form:
Rhyme
I lacked emotions where others concernedBack approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up
(like a broken record),
where parents left off
before...
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Categories:
lock step, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him
courtesy fanged...
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Categories:
lock step, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.
Don't forget...
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Categories:
lock step, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Columbian Uncivil AllegiancesIt was a nasty war.
To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear Management,
violently over-industrious absence of mutual civility.
We were too optimistic
about democracy's...
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Categories:
lock step, columbus day, culture, health, history, military, native
Form:
Political Verse
Daylight Savings Time March 13th, 2022Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
A long time graduate courtesy
Hard Knocks alum,
once again yours truly
posts reasonable rhyme
about shortest day of the year.
Two o'clock Ante Meridiem
nostri Jesu Christi
hour...
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Categories:
lock step, allusion, color, dream, flying, fun, god, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty first century civilization gone I askewTwenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.
Ah... what luxury to wax poetic
as freedom to trumpet thoughts,
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty five
courtesy wealth and/or stealth
dons the mantle as de...
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Categories:
lock step, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement, crush, hate, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone AskewTwenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?
Methinks perchance man
kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
from human being:
uncivil, unethical, unsocial, et cetera
...
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Categories:
lock step, america, death, destiny, heaven, literature, slavery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight Savings Time March 8th 2020Daylight Savings Time – March 8th, 2020
Two o'clock anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi
hour hand clock sprung forward sixty minutes
round about same of month every year, what a bum
er, an inconvenient truth...
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Categories:
lock step, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, father, health,
Form:
Free verse
Vociferous Avarice: Wall Street CreedThe path was long and arduous
And night began to veer
O’er trees, and lanes and rusted gates
Its' shadows breeding fear
Unbridled Wind wisped ‘round
Tombstone crosses where
Hissing its’ frustration
Loudly in despair
It sought to nourish fears
The shadows did create
Searching...
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Categories:
lock step, america, betrayal, business, discrimination, money, political, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Procrastinating For the GreIt was my plan to set aside this past week
to prepare for the Quantitative Graduate Record Exam.
A week ago this seemed like a big number
for ample review,
time set aside from more typical U.S. autumn...
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Categories:
lock step, education, humor, math, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Daylight Savings Time November 6th 2016Hour hands clock back sixty minutes of Autumn
Round about this same of month every year, what a bum
er, and inconvenient truth diverged from this chum
purposelessly manipulating a hold over
sans yesteryear doth...
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Categories:
lock step, allusion, assonance, autumn, fun, inspirational, muse, voyage,
Form:
Free verse
Six Degrees of SeparationAdvent of mass electronic
(not necessarily fail
proof), nonetheless spellbinding
how earthlinked communications
sent and/or received information
quicken er than...
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Categories:
lock step, 12th grade, 9th grade, friendship, hello, internet,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Game of Thrones2O The Pestilence ripens in the fields
as pest harvests the shops and till
Harvesting of diminished yields
To !REAL CONSPIRACY!
Sovereignty-PIRACY, tips the scales of justice,
feilty, unity, irony
A question mark with its answer
Written on...
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Categories:
lock step, abuse, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
All Dancers MatterThose who pray by marching
can pray alone
in endless competitions.
Those who pray while dancing
can only pray together
for timeless cooperations.
Hate and fear can only angry march
side by competing side
in uniformity of lock-step supremacy.
But love and compassion
can also...
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Categories:
lock step, anger, dance, hate, health, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Coming of the New MornThe Coming of the New Morn!
Gather around people
Wherever you are
Whether you travel
By foot, train or car
Listen dear friends
And heed that I Warn.
Tomorrow when you wake.
You will greet.
The New Morn.
When all information.
Is controlled by the state.
It...
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Categories:
lock step, soldier, war,
Form:
Free verse
Ever Watched a Bug - a Long Crawly PieceHovering in never ending circles,
Some crawling every which way across the ceiling,
Others in deliberate lock step across your floor,
Will they light on you or crawl up your leg?
They don't even know you yet want to...
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Categories:
lock step, imagery, insect, philosophy, word play,
Form:
Narrative
MascaraAs sex and scars, mascara covers
The blood n liquor mingles on the bar
Draining to the vast caverns of my horrors
While dark dreams coalesce in all my corners
I sit here wondering: What went wrong
Why did...
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Categories:
lock step, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger, art, beautiful, color,
Form:
Free verse
RamblingsFoothills
The physics
of metaphysics …
the part I like the best
Where symbols yearn
as planets turn
—new twigs to build the nest
(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
A Picture
Imagery and symbols
are worth a thousand words
Why poetry is lauded
but prose routinely heard
To paint each...
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Categories:
lock step, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Would You StillWould you still love me if I told you I adore you night and day -
or would your knowledge of my capture be my doom -
to fall to you I might forsake the interest I...
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Categories:
lock step, desire, love, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
Crystal waters plumping the honeydews
and cascading through amusement park ride.
As tourists engage in espionage
in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms.
As graves of self sufficiency,
Communes of bagged embalm.
"Do What Thou Wilt","Do No Harm".
Spirit cooking, charms I"m sure.
Missing...
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Categories:
lock step, art,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To General EisenhowerDear General Eisenhower:
Sir, you are a man of great wisdom and foresight
Is this why you made sure photographs were taken
photographs of mass graves stuffed with rotting bodies
mass graves of naked men, women, and yes...children
herded into...
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Categories:
lock step, war,
Form:
Narrative