Long Panic button Poems

Betty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...

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Damian DJ Dolly and Molly 
Were awake aware actually 
Absolutely wide eyed and 
Energetic. They woke 
Everyone 7 o'clock in the
Morning. Damian hollered 
Orders  "alright Hakim. When 
You have Everything packed up
Start loading it...

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The world outside my window

I view with one eye open 

while laying on my pillow

Birds are chirping and singing their songs

perched upon their tree of choice 

they know where they belong

I smell the coffee brewing...

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The world outside my window
I view with one eye open 
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice 
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...

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I think I found the prescription for the sickness behind my obvious problems 
Or I found the key that fits in the lock of the door of ignoring them
I’m not sure which one it is...

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Here's  a terrifying piece of news about every mother's nightmare...
Happened in broad daylight with numerous customers everywhere...

A mother, busy festive shopping in a local retail store, was distracted for a couple of minutes...
She had...

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Experienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago)

My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa
And now this puny earthquake I felt in Tanzania. 

I...

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While on a geological traverse 
in the ancient Aravalli hills of Rajasthan,   
I happened to stop by a palatial house, 
that glistened under the summer sun.  

I got curious to find the...

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While on a holiday hike in the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan,   
I stopped by a palatial house shining in the summer sun,  
curious, through the half-closed door I entered silently 
the dark...

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE

While on a tour across the Scottish highland moor
one summer noon I stopped by a Victorian house.
Curious, I entered through the half-closed door,
a dark room filled with antiques I could browse.

In the eerie...

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While on a tour across the moor of the Scottish highland, 
one summer noon I stopped by a grand Victorian house. 
Curious, I entered silently through the half-closed door, 
in the half-dark room a pile...

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On a tour across the Scottish highland moor, 
one summer noon I stopped by a grand Victorian house. 
Curious, I entered silently through the half-closed door, 
in the semi-dark room a pile of antiques I...

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I value safety  
as I swim whilst made of shadows
crashing into the unbreakable surface tension

Should it rupture I'd lay exhausted -
all limbs and branches
tangled in roots

The sky
only witnessed through the lens  
of somebody...

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Voices


angry voices saying words that could doom the people,
playing with the hint of an apocalypse like name calling at school.

I will shoot down your planes if you say that about me again.
You know you can’t...

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Discern choice anew
Curb contagious flair;
Bear home isolation

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Deadly disease strain
Global pandemic;
Lockdowns, lockout

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Chaotic uncertainty
Disruptions everywhere;
Normalcy devastated

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Fear strangles
Panic erupts;
Empty shop shelves

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Coronavirus outbreak
Pneumonia strangles;
A deadly frontier

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Social distancing
Sea of surgical masks;
Fear hounds panic

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Bad news anchors
Tragedy gains currency;
Death and suffering

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Dire consequences
Desperate...

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Panic Buttons

guess what?  there is no button
It comes out of the thin air
It doesn't matter "where"
I have studied the chemical reactions
that happen when the panic button is on
run
run away....."to where, where"?
and you're not thinking
you...

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S top
T hink
O pen your heart to God
P ray

the enemy comes to kill steal and destroy, he tries to trip us up in many ways
if something was on your mind wouldn't you love to be...

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Don’t press the wrong trigger,
or you’ll get hit by a truth bullet
Peep sound advice:  Don’t pull it ...
caliber of proof gon get bigger

Press your luck, if you want to —  
false bravado can...

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I am waiting…
Should I take that leap of faith
or push the panic button?
I am pretty sure if I choose the latter
no one will even notice.
Stress has me in a suffocating breathing pattern,
taking shallow breaths in...

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There is a special calm when you step upon the shore...
If the night was dark and you had only one oar.

There are times on life's lake when the storms blow and rage...
It can happen in...

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Election called to hurry up Brexit
It's like a fire alarm for a speedy exit

Panic button pressed or what?
Many people fed up with the lot!

Maybe a coffee will help the stress
Don't get hooked, baristas will be...

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