Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders
Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders
one of whom would be
this married sexagenarian,
who recently acquired
his Senior Fare Card
courtesy Trump's big beautiful bill
dog days of summer
will experience big beautiful chill
videre licet courtesy
slated budget cuts
intimating a worse fate
than getting root canal,
whereby militant dentist
woulf blithely recount his days
as oil rig employee
when he/she uttered
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Categories:
measures, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Weights and Measures
There is no scale that can weigh the power of hope
Winter ICE riding an Alberta Clipper from the new northern state down to the Gulf of America
A Brown wave
No time for Brown waves good bye
A brown wave
Sky ships set sail
Rouge cargo
Stripped, strapped, secure
Refugee - no refuge - Refugee
Loose dirt plowed
Roots
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Categories:
measures, america, angst, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
An Extra Plot
It occurs that safety measures
Are more dangerous than dangers
Who’ll protect us from security
Lives beyond the clouds obscurity
God takes ultimate control
He’s the One who knows it all
Tells that safety measures bit
We should treasure in complete
Otherwise a little devil
Mean old master of the rebel
Will set trouble in our minds
Thus to evil we’ll abide
With God’s blessing
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Categories:
measures, endurance, humorous, irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
Desperate Measures
I repeatedly said NO to becoming a circle member
On several different occasions as I can remember
The things that are done are really not such a secret
Harvest, harness, control who's targeted as a threat
Wanting nothing of the cult, coven, or secret society
Stalked, alone, isolated with paranoia and anxiety
Taunting me with fear, so I would not tell
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Categories:
measures, dark, fate, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Money Measures Everyone
Money can't talk
But it can dismantle
The true nature of human
If you need money just tell to God
To receive it is a joy of the heart
Every sincere effort to earn it
Will bring about extraordinary results
A mountain of money is not necessarily
Enough for a greedy person
But a plate of rice
Is
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Categories:
measures, desire, money, success,
Form: Free verse
Sequence of Rotation
Duration
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Section VIIII-VVIII of
Article 2B under Chapter IV
Predispositions and Urges
A.....The instructions to
love with affectionate Quality
in such performances
B.....Various formats and
genres requires content
definition that word usage
is often rhymned for the
rhymers sake.
(changing phrases often
allow word usage to folk
who wish decent content)
C.....A Deep passionate and
affectionate tone set for
two people
D.....In a number of perspectives
where the recipient
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Categories:
measures, character, culture, engagement, music,
Form: Ballade
Existing Measures
Existence is order or chaos bound
And forever marred with uncertainties
Until we're planted six feet under ground
We travel between the eternities
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Categories:
measures, life,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Cafes, 2020
No use to fret, its only temporary measures
As keepers of the gloom proclaimed in press
Suspend the longing for the simple pleasures
Amidst the circumstances of distress
Awnings are lowered, tables are removed
Everything’s minimized, except the road works
Progress develops in a spiral, and it’s proved
Shall we embark soon in a fabulous epoch?
We have to benefit from the
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Categories:
measures, change, city, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Safety Measures
Let us trust the Lord* for today’s safety
Mindful of child-transport security
Being alert is indeed tough duty
Along our road responsibility…
Midst bikers, shared accountability
Those crossing, concerned sensibility.
*Psalms 118:8 “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
August 11, 2023
4th place, "From Dispatch to Bus Drivers" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Miranda Hawley; judged
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Categories:
measures, character, christian, courage, dedication,
Form: Monorhyme
Time Is Measures
Time is measures
counts, adds and subtracts
its lone reason
I walk by a graveyard
aware of silent murmur
read the labels
and solemn faces
for a moment become
Time's critical jury
then remember
life is my reason
I cross at the corner
faith my cure
to move beyond
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Categories:
measures, christian, death, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
A Heavenly Song In Earthly Measures of Time
God is the law over the nature of the Universe.
God's order of things is great and diverse.
God is timeless in his sense of being.
God is not of the temporal succession of existence in his laws of decreeing.
God's measurement of time is perfect in his creations.
God's force is in the fullness of divine interpretation.
God created a
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Categories:
measures, religious,
Form: Rhyme
The Measures of Fall
rainfall comes in drops
snowfall flakes in flurry squalls
leaves in flutters fall
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Categories:
measures, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Before the Blacktop Ends
Before The Blacktop Ends
David J Walker
The world wends
And extends
A mile or two before
The blacktop ends
It ends in dust
It ends in rust
Transcends the trust of
Casuistic treasures
It measures miles
It humors trials
And tempers time
And fills the files
With pleasures
Only pleasures
And clings to things
Familiar
Before the blacktop ends
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Categories:
measures, allegory, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Exceptional Times, Exceptional Measures
Exceptional times require exceptional measures
In our everyday lives we experience this truth
Times of stress, or, in rare incidence for pleasures
A challenge from our peers sparking curiosity,
Provoking us to engage in the most insane ruse
Wisdom shows itself in most annoying paucity
Comes the time when we eschew such rashness
But, in youth, almost every adventure is novel,
So, we
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Categories:
measures, growth, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Magazine Madame Measures Mackerels
Magazine Madame measures mammoth mackerels
Manipulating measurements, marking misguided memos
Momentous mistakes moves and muffles meager mackerels
Manufactured mutilated memo mystifies many, milking money
Magazine magistrate Marine Morey measures mackerels
Making meticulous memories, mimicking Magazine Madame
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Categories:
measures, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
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