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Premium Member Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
   of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic
   Heathcliff's...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ray bradbury, books,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Skin Illustrations
I stood on the bridge looking at the river below.
A strange-looking man came up to me and said “hello,
“Do you know where I’ll be able to find a job here?’
That is what the strange man...

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Categories: ray bradbury, adventure, fantasy, imagination, science fiction, me, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Search of a Sun Dome
Here are four survivors of a rocket that had crashed.
For a great distance, they had walked through rain that had splashed
so long, and so hard, that everything was turning white.
The downpour continued steadily through day...

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Categories: ray bradbury, adventure, science fictionrain, men, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Into Darkness - Star Trek
Here, beyond the realm of air
          I've given what this job remands
              ...

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Categories: ray bradbury, adventure, film, friendship, science fiction,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Skin Illustrations Part Ii
He said, “I’ve tried everything; acid, sandpaper, knife;
I hate these things.  I will have them for my entire life.”
You can predict the future by looking at these things.
At night, each of these pictures practically...

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Categories: ray bradbury, adventure, fantasy, imagination, science fiction, me, future,
Form: Rhyme



From Russia With Love!( For 4 July)
Once, many years ago,
When I was a schoolgirl, a student,
I, similar to many, was afraid of war with the USA. 
peals of thunder frightened me,
They were similar to the roar of guns.
I cried from fear...

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Categories: ray bradbury, friendship, war, love, time, usa, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not My Brand
That's all science fiction was ever about.
   Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
RAY BRADBURY, "No News, or, What Killed the Dog?"

NOT MY BRAND

like being caught with a pack
where authority...

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Categories: ray bradbury, science fiction, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watching the Earth Burn
The neighbors gazed at the sky with the nighttime stars.
There is plenty to see while they’re living on Mars.
Since the planet is dry with a thin atmosphere,
so much can be seen because the sky is...

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Categories: ray bradbury, science fiction, war, earth, sky, war, planet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chicken Salad and Dandelions



                  ……Chicken Salad and Dandeloins……

             ...

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Categories: ray bradbury, farewell, fun, imagery, memory, summer,
Form: Quatrain
The Ten Commandments of Self-Sabatoge At Work -Try To Avoid
1O. Shut your trap to avoid any flap
9. Do not be overly fraught by "conventional thought" (dinosaurism)
8. Know how to deal with Soylent Green People 
7. Stuff your ideas and different views-tip toe on the...

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Categories: ray bradbury, addiction, career, computer, education, eulogy, fire, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death By Murder
Murky water left to drink
floating particles of death
Erie presence leaves discontent
As something wicked floats in it.
The bone chilling chilly wind doth blow
off Lake Erie with flurry snow.

Late at night off cold dark shores
Shadows of a...

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Categories: ray bradbury, abuse, child abuse, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Odd Couple
I hear that woman crying in her room each night.
Why is she doing that?  It gives me a fright.
Her husband calms her down to silence.
What they do each night does not make sense.
This is...

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Categories: ray bradbury, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Gathering Flowers of the Imagination Tribute
Tales of Tomorrow, Alfred Hitchcock Presents                             ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ray bradbury, history, imagination, irony, mystery, tribute, work,
Form: Free verse
Green Town Ohio
Green Town, Ohio 
where memories congregate, 
granddads as time machines, 
grandmas... magicians. 

Two children leaping 
in Superman sneakers 
as if they are flying, 
and smelling the fresh cut grass. 

Sparklers and firecrackers 
sizzle for dominance,...

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Categories: ray bradbury, children,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ray Bradbury
Nobody could take us on a vicarious journey
like the late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
He would place his readers into another time and space.
Words flowed onto the pages with style and grace.

Ray would send us...

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Categories: ray bradbury, dedication, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Green Town, Ohio
Green Town, Ohio 
where memories congregate, 
granddads as time machines, 
grandmas... magicians. 

Two of them leaping 
in Superman sneakers 
as if they are flying, 
smelling the fresh cut grass. 

Sparklers and firecrackers 
sizzle for dominance,...

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Categories: ray bradbury, children,
Form: Quatrain
Sonnet 32 'sometimes, I Wake Up From Sweet Death's Dull Sleep'
Sometimes, I wake up from Sweet Death’s dull sleep,
And find, I’ve not been living as I could,
My friends tell me they tire of seeing me weep…
I feel like I’m a boy, not flesh, but wood…
My...

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Categories: ray bradbury, courage, faith, hope, love, trust, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member They All Died From Chicken Pox
They met a demise so inglorious.
The culpable agent was the Varicella virus.
We were the vectors.  It was none other than us.
Chalk up another deed of man that will be infamous.
The virus spread like wisps...

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Categories: ray bradbury, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanish
"Sunsets are loved because they vanish." - Ray Bradbury 

Days like this, I could forget
If they were all to vanish,
Come to an end in a sunset
Black clouds I'd ever banish

If they were all to vanish
As...

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Categories: ray bradbury, anger, day, family, life, society, sunset, write,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Attic Journey
Mr. William Finch had a lot to remember.
What was he doing in the attic in late November?
Wondering about his antics was his wife Cora.
William was covered with the scent of sarsaparilla.
He journeyed to a world...

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Categories: ray bradbury, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Green Town, Ohio
...inspired by 'Dandelion Wine' 
   by Ray Bradbury


Green Town, Ohio,
where memories congregate,
sneakers and time machines, 
grandmas and goodies;
leaping tall buildings 
and smelling the fresh cut grass,
junebugs and crickets compete
as the best; sparklers and...

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Categories: ray bradbury, childhood
Form: Verse
Green Town Ohio
...inspired by 'Dandelion Wine' 
   by Ray Bradbury



Green Town, Ohio,
where memories congregate,
sneakers and time machines, 
grandmas and cookies;
leaping tall buildings 
and smelling the fresh cut grass,
junebugs and crickets compete
as the best; sparklers and...

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Categories: ray bradbury, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Green Town, Ohio
...inspired by 'Dandelion Wine' 
   by Ray Bradbury



Green Town, Ohio,
where memories congregate,
sneakers and time machines, 
grandmas and cookies;
leaping tall buildings 
and smelling the fresh cut grass,
junebugs and crickets compete
as the best; sparklers and...

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Categories: ray bradbury, childhood,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things