Long Piston Poems
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Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
Groundswell Of Emotional Blessedness
Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:
thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Facebook, Hello Poetry, My Poetic Side
PoetryNook, Poetry Soup, PoetryVibe
Tumblr, et cetera
anonymous global friends,
Romans...
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Categories:
piston, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration, dedication, family, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Elasticated Red Cabbage
“Everybody duck, everybody run, and everybody hide. Quickly now. Hurry. IT is happening now. All run run run” In haste the message spoke. Radiating booming voice from the tissue box placed in the middle of...
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Categories:
piston, analogy, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Poems Omega Minus - Parts Three To Five
III
Kept out
kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
and the usual conning courtesies
Kept shut
Involuting in the hippo-lipped paranoïa
from the darling eyes of his...
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Categories:
piston, inspirational, time, time,
Form:
Free verse
Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2
- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,
Marilyn?
I'll give a ride on my razor any day to
The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,
who was around long before CD's, DVD's, MTV, and YOU / MYtube,
spitting out the healing...
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Categories:
piston, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Shades of Monday
He is cranking up the old rusty engine again, but all that work is in vain, sweat is running from his anxious face and grease is spilling all over the place. There he goes again...
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Categories:
piston, appreciation, business, change, courage, culture, desire, destiny,
Form:
Narrative
The PistonTrain
Monday morning comes alive with the piston train speeding by, thousands of people gather at the gate and crowd the platform before it was too late.
Monday morning full of passion with hangover lingering in the...
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Categories:
piston, anger, break up, business, city, corruption, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Pieces of Eternity (Seasons Finale)
Maybe it’s unacceptable
Live a life capable of a true fable
True friends never end
But take you back to where it all began
But hey misery gave us something to believe in
Stress became...
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Categories:
piston, death, family, friendship, lost love, sad, song-day,
Form:
Free verse
Can Somebody Please Give This Uber Muff Fuller a Lyft
Can somebody please give this uber muff fuller a lyft?
alternately titled: jump starter for clunky, junky,
quirky, xyz mechanic wanted in tow tow -
chassis what I mean?)
As the proud graduated
honorably rolled 2009 Hyundai
Sonata vehicular property
belonging to...
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Categories:
piston, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The Battle of the Toilet Is Won
That’s it the battle is won, the toilet can fight no more
Three weeks ago the flush would overflow.
And kept leaving a puddle on the floor
I looked in the book, it said I needed a spare...
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Categories:
piston, funny, water, water,
Form:
Epic
A Trip To the Dentist
Face fractured with fear
As the Taxi drew near
The building was in the next street
" I'll drop you off here"
Said Steve full of cheer
(Annoyingly rather upbeat.)
As you pushed on the door
It's sticky hinge ...
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Categories:
piston, health, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Seed
Days have gone by since the moon passes through the sky
I thought it was going to rain but it was just a little drizzle beating against my window pane and the stars move swiftly beneath...
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Categories:
piston, age, america, appreciation, business, community, friendship, international,
Form:
Narrative
The Offering Plate
The Offering Plate
The offering plate
started at row one
I was in row ten.
I reached in my pants
knowing I had a five
down there somewhere.
I pulled a crumpled wad
from my pocket.
A receipt from MacDonalds,
couple...
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Categories:
piston, conflict, funny, irony, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Pimp In a Fur Suit
on behalf of the little guy
deep behind enemy territory
welcome to the nameless republic
all good capitalists want a monopoly
all good physicians need you sick
the National Antidote Party broke down the door
I told them everything I know
so...
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Categories:
piston, how i feel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelle: Whose Voice So Insistent and So Early To Whine
illanelle: Whose voice so insistent and so early to whine
(I have just found a poem I wrote three days before I was tossed up
and knocked down by a speeding car while I was mid-way on...
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Categories:
piston, allah, death, fantasy, islamic, miracle, riddle, sunset,
Form:
Villanelle
Mother's Day Parade
You can feel them move through streets
Emblazoned with sirens' primary colors,
A swatch of fjord's colonial flagship hues
Left to slap in the wind of reorderd forms
Until sheared into confetti strips. Scripts
Writ into a code are...
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Categories:
piston, absence, addiction, america,
Form:
Blank verse
Cerulean Odyssey One, 13-16
13
bayside rumours of war
and flowers blossoming thirst
for sacrificial blood
cut my weeping heart out
ensure another flawless sunrise
confusion moments of despair
deceived beyond deception
their laboured cry heard no more
my voice remains
slower traffic keep right
my fist a burning piston
line...
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Categories:
piston, allegory, inspirational, life, philosophy, heart, voice, heart,
Form:
Epic
The Factory
Your tarnished grey paint on a rotting wood canvas.
This melancholy greeting from an entrance to exploitation.
Why I keep meeting you in that gloomy terrain,
Why I trudge through rain and grime to slave for you,
Is all...
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Categories:
piston, business, life, on work and working, people,
Form:
Free verse
Under the Mountain
you never saw me when i was
itching at the sky for answers
that were never there,
opening all of the gates and all of the pits
beyond the Valley of Death,
still stinking with brim, and hot brine
just...
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Categories:
piston, deep,
Form:
Free verse
About gods of timing belts and spark plugs
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". A. Dante, 14th century Italian poet
They sway the power over mere mortals
They drop the words that cannot be appealed
Gods...
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Categories:
piston, car, humor, humorous, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Ventilation
I don't know why, I always find myself dying
deep inside the hole of life but trying
to be alive, at the same time
with the same rhyme I just keep writing
in this book of lies that I'm...
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Categories:
piston, absence, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, imagery, imagination, life,
Form:
Lyric
Perfect Circle Piston Rings
The Perfect Circle Plant was where most kids went to work as a general rule,
To begin a life of donkeywork upon graduation from the local school.
I dreamed of things far beyond the horizon like visitin'...
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Categories:
piston, funny, work, life, me, work, graduation, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Mary Sue Hank Next Door My Hog And Houndog
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
In my ramshackle torn straw old bed
The mice are chewing my toes
And the bedbugs bite
Elephants dancing in my head
I think to myself
"It's not...
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Categories:
piston, angst, cat, dog, longing,
Form:
Free verse
To Consider the Alligator
I wouldn't be scant. Its codfish lies to pull ferociously all up in its cube. The forks stomped the ponies. Why did your
goodness lift our leaf? What do ideas ride like? You sound like...
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Categories:
piston, confusion, happiness, introspection, life, mystery, on writing
Form:
Prose Poetry
Shade Tree Mechanic
Once upon a time I could change the oil and give the car a lube,
Tune the timing, change the plugs and patch an inner tube.
In days of yore I'd do simple jobs beneath the old...
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Categories:
piston, funnychange,
Form:
Rhyme
Yellow Bikini She Wears
Bikini clad babe
Tanned for the day
She invites me home
Maybe, nightly stay
Her home we reach
She showers, i wait
Drinks are poured
It feels like a date
The heat persists
Yellow bikini she wears
Once again
In x-ray stare
Our talks...
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Categories:
piston, love, passion, people, placesme,
Form:
Rhyme