Heritage Day, May 2063
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They dock at the old ferry landing,
drip fern-water and quartz dust,
pull shapes from a memory
nobody can name.
The news calls them pioneers.
The city calls for volunteers:
one hundred cre...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
The Fantasies of Sirens
...The bullets did not fly into the wind,
They struck, leaving indelible scars,
Blood on the pavement, pain in impure souls,
The bodies fall, but the eyes remain wide open.
The pains we hide become ...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, humanity,
Form: Free verse
- Roudolph's Broken Leg -
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No one had seen Rudolf for weeks
He was wanted via loudspeakers and flyers
"This is the moment where everything changes", Santa Claus said
Christmas Eve was approaching, there was nothing more t...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, blessing, christmas, holiday,
Form: Narrative
Gospital
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If only hospitals were gospitals
And when admitted,
Elvis was blaring on the loudspeakers
Singing gospel songs that not only heals
The heart, body and mind
But also, the soul!
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Categories:
loudspeakers, health,
Form: Free verse
Noisy Korea Now My Home
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When I first came
To South Korea in 1979
To do my Peace Corps duty
In a rural country town,
I thought that the old name
Of Korea
“the land of the morning calm”
Was absurd.
Korea was ...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, appreciation, emotions, travel,
Form: Bio
Morning Reading
...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting,
the world is when stamped into rubber decals.
Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest.
Watching a colorful rolling diorama,
pictographs tumbling over...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Freethinker
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In the still of the night,
spectro-gramming the hot utter of air,
filtered by laser strainer-
it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier
a black hole of sin in my pocket,
a p...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, art,
Form: Rhyme
Ukraine Russia
...Ukraine or Russia
I was in the Soviet Union once, sailed through the
the Dardanelles into the Black Sea into Ukraine
The center of the town, a pompous avenue void of cars
Loudspeakers played ...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, 8th grade, abuse, age,
Form: Blank verse
The Book Army
...See them walking down the street in droves with books tucked underneath their arms making long strides and wide steps walking in clusters to seal the final deal.
They are moving in a synchronize...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, business, community, devotion, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Anti-Poem Prom Night At Lax 1973
...Anti-Poem – “Prom Night At LAX 1973”
(Poet’s Instruction: Before reading this anti-poem, kindly go to YouTube and play Muzak: “Stimulus Progression.” Music can also be heard at my Facebook page un...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, memory,
Form: Free verse
Spring Carnival
...The spring carnival will soon be arriving
With exciting rides and strange exotic shows,
Loudspeakers will blare with old disco jiving
Flickering neon lights causing nocturnal glows.
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Categories:
loudspeakers, fun, spring,
Form: Pantoum
Life and Death
...Unknown, unseen, the invisible demon has arrived to annihilate
Anybody out in open becomes a pray of his wrath
Soon gasping for breath, gone forever
Such is his might that no one dares to go near...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, horror,
Form: Imagism
Proud To Be Published
...Entering any favorite mall,
A row of seats you wence recall
mega signs displayed everywhere
why, you can't help to stop an stare
First, you notice those folk gathered,
in seats all around a b...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Christian Patriots Yearning To Breath Free Part 2
...You Let We the People Down
Hey, good morning. Let me ask you all:
Do you believe you’re God?”
“Do you believe you can override
God’s divine plan for our lives?
Do you believe God gave us ...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, allah, anxiety, death,
Form: I do not know?
Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny
...AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”
(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)
Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mel...
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Categories:
loudspeakers, memory,
Form: Free verse
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