Long Mikes Poems

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Imaginism


Title:

"Every cloud has a silver lining"


Passing through a dark cloud in turbulent weather,
High in the air above 35,000 feet,
Plane dipping, sometimes lower.
Ooops! says some passengers, as you silently pray.

The shaking continues, Captain's warning signal
Comes on....

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Many Hikes with Three Mikes

After I had gone on many hikes
Ended up with these three Mikes
Meant to be,
Great all three,
Who I do know everyone likes.

Who I do have a Hoopy Do Review.

Jim Horn

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Charging and My...

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Animal kingdom was invited to join the forest meadow
Band orchestrated by the deniable dictator, diabolical gorilla king
Causing loads of premature bragging from delighted grand-animals.
Deliriously enthusiastic orangutans began to show off their voice prowess.
Excited flocks, herds,...

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Another poetry reading.
I arrive late and drop my phone in a workshop.

I capriciously retrieve it and slink to the corner,
My notebook and pen
Poised and ready
For my muse to be resurrected after
A long hibernation.

This is why...

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An orange glow flew through the sky 
Image going really high 
Down south 
Nasty weather would not shut its mouth 
Spitting in a poring way 
Angry clouds having lots to say 
Sitting in the atmospheric...

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Breaking news, there’s been a crash on the tracks. A crash of two trains and 96 deaths to be exact.

Two years has gone by and they had a remembrance party at the pub. Just a...

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This old place been good to me,
Seen me through some misery 
Helped me find my blind way through the dark 
Up or down I come along 
Get up here and sing my song 
I feel...

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s/he came from some other place to
nestle in NYC & try to make it big off
other people’s talent---
they stroll through the open mikes, nightly,
and make themselves known at small shows
where the naïve transplants who want...

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Oh, so macho, breathtaking,he!
Unlike an innocent orange on a tree.

He looked perfect in his mugshot  and orange suit.
“And chose plagiarized poems to post, to boot?*

The crusader rabbits here are still licking the felon's boot.
Then...

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I want to drink that last shot of whiskey and smoke that last cigarette ..

.. before the barman calls out time
and ashtrays are snuggled in warm embrace
within wet dreams,

flushing away debris.

    ...

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Did I ever tell you?
Of a time
Of a land
Where we fought
Where we lived
For ideals
When a cause was right
How we never lost
Yet, we faded in to the night
 
Did I ever tell you?
Of African stars
So bright
As...

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Find your voice and join the grassroots brigade
Bring your dendrite alleys 
And your open mikes
Muses with love in their hearts get front row seats

Cheer loudly and for the competition with equal attitude
Everything is green and...

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Stopped off for eggs 
with ham(thought about keeping kosher for a while)
   Have to say the ham was tasty!
Came up into the ESL Lab
My supervisor said he likes his 
   councilman
At...

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It’s National poetry month
I’m glad someone noticed us I profess
So here we toil at our computers 
they should be reporting us not the shooters 
Thousands upon thousands of writers should unite 
to keep going and...

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In the Islands day talk like you sing
don't know till ya been dar tiz an Island-ting
take two jig-um-ups tiz coke to fly
gave me shots of rum with coke on the side

smell dim gon-ja blown to...

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We all knew how spooked our cousin Leticia gets.
We knew when she saw the skull she would pitch fits.
Should we warn her? Asked my Aunt Little Bits.
No way! We kids yelled. That would be the...

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The restaurant we like is far;
We wanted something closer.
To walk an extra mile or so?
My answer would be, “No, sir!”

I went to Google on my phone -
“Thai food” is what I’d enter -
But suddenly, “Thai...

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