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Megaphones Poems - Poems about Megaphones

Premium MemberMasquerading Ms

...Mysterious Mumbo micron meanders most monochrome mornings
Merry Mickey monster makes mentionable mackerel marmalade
Michigans maleficent mayor maimed Mrs.Maryjane May Marlow
Mumbling meager monarc...
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Categories: megaphones, word play,
Form: Alliteration

Leave Not Your Dad Sad

...I could decide that you are bad
And people urge to judge you mad,
If you would often keep your dad
Thinking that he could not be glad,4
Because you had him made a pad:
A bearer of what leaves on...
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Categories: megaphones, care, devotion, image, money,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberJagged Rocks

...Do you ever feel like –
You are being driven onto jagged rocks
By an unforgiving tide,
Searching for a refuge,
Searching for somewhere safe to hide?

Feel the world is spinning much too fast
A...
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Categories: megaphones, dark, deep, depression, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Mushrooming Private Churches In Aba

...Close to a scandalous ten thousand,
A reproach to the late Reverend Townsend;
All with their advertising megaphones,
And big dreams-nursing microphones …

In my town of domicile
With odds one c...
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Categories: megaphones, betrayal, bible, christian, money,
Form: Rhyme

Who Ruined Faith

...Not Satan, not the evil fairies,
not Micky Mouse and his club
of pre-packaged screen angels.
Maybe the radio-stars
the high priests of biblical fashion
with their guitars, mega churches
and meg...
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Categories: megaphones, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Not Your Father's Reaper

...You pick a fight to live today,
You tell the time you saw the dreamed-of shore 
of an island, Gilligan,
Gentle wind at your cheek,
A kiss parting lips caress,
A day wide-eyed as a lamb,
But the...
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Categories: megaphones, inspirational, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Player Two

...my x has been boxed
Stations have been played
nine ten do
switch
my reality virtualised
my intelligence artificialised
escaping fear in evil
residently near
Trevor smiles
as his stole car
s...
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Categories: megaphones, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Words

...You can’t hurt words.
Lord knows I’ve tried.
For years I tortured words,
twisted them, kicked them about.

For a time,
it was just me against words.
The more I hammered on them
the more they ...
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Categories: megaphones, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSummer Love

...Summer love, a man, a woman, conception, a new born 
Ring the bells, amplify megaphones, bugle the cow horn
 
The ceremony begins, baptism, cries, holy water 
From two one, family, father, mother...
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Categories: megaphones, baby, family, life, love,
Form: Sonnet

My Cheering Days

...A highlight of my grown-up life,
Before I was a mom or wife,
Was being one of those who cheered
On game days, when our teams appeared.

This was in high school, years ago.
The squad, unlike tod...
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Categories: megaphones, me, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

I Will Obey

...“I WILL OBEY”


stack the legos
make the towers
bury the money
build the server
send the message
the dandelion’s on fire.

tonight,
the code goes out
the message is clear
the message is ...
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Categories: megaphones, absence, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNever Land Part 4

...A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,

his bane is firm, th...
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Categories: megaphones, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEpitaphs In Verse - Reflections In the Eyes of a Poet

...The eyes behind a head inclined reflect a universe

   Of shanty towns and kings in crowns and parties in a hearse,
   Of heaping mounds of coffee grounds and pennies in a purse,
   Of heart atta...
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Categories: megaphones, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Out From the Closet of Belief: Part Ii

...oh but how those goddamned Atheists 
would not stop yammering away---
with their Darwin & their Evolution & their
want to live in the reality of a world in which 
human beings take responsibility for...
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Categories: megaphones, life, people, love, people,
Form: Free verse

The Opening of the Eyes

...humpty has moved up to the wall &
all the kings horses, men, soldiers, fighter planes and drones
are focused on further strangling iran,
they are denying a palestinian state
they are backing the furt...
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Categories: megaphones, life,
Form: Free verse

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