Beach
...There are more than pennies in the sand.
I stumbled across a wedding band.
Me with a metal detector, walking along.
Other beach goers in throngs.
Dropping tiny things that they will forget.
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Categories:
metal detector, angst, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Spread it Out
...Spread it out on the ground and let’s see how far it reach; spread it out on the ground and you will see where destiny is bound; spread it out and measure it and you will know exactly if it fits.
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Categories:
metal detector, business, community, confidence, culture,
Form: Narrative
Travel
...Travel
Zip-zip-zip the suitcases go
And we all pile into the car, ready to start the show
It’s that time of year
When my family and I travel to far away places full of cheer
Spellbound with...
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Categories:
metal detector, adventure, emotions, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Sandcastle Jane
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This is the Ballad of Sandcastle Jane
Who went to the seaside in the pouring rain
Where she built sandcastles on the seashore
At first there was one, then there were more.
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Categories:
metal detector, rain, sea,
Form: Ballad
A Lost Ring
...In May two thousand and seven I was on a beach on the sand
When it was time to leave I noticed, I was missing my gold band
I started digging the sand frantically, my wife she helped too
We we...
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Categories:
metal detector, beach, happy, loss, travel,
Form: Narrative
What Am I
...Can I describe an object?
What is it? Please have a guess?
It’s just a little exercise,
It won’t cause you much stress.
The object I’m describing,
Usually is long and thin,
It comes with some i...
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Categories:
metal detector, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Dogs Bark
...She stands at the barbed-wire fence
Her chest heaves up and down
Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark
They are ferocious
The gate in the middle creaks open
admitting her
It slams shut be...
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Categories:
metal detector, anxiety, dog, future, kindergarten,
Form: Verse
Guns and Roses
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First person shooter,
on a hate tour of duty,
swinging a bullet sling blade
Buying a death row ticket,
worth fifteen minutes of fame
First person murder shooter;
womb-to-the-cradle-t...
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Categories:
metal detector, dark, death, violence, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Security Check
...At the airport a young director
Ready to film a new TV show
Walked through the metal detector
Forgetting his nail clippers in tow
He had put them in his pocket
Down a hole the clippers fell t...
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Categories:
metal detector, confusion, flying, humorous, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Gullibility
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He can only find oil by opening a can of sardines.
By hoping to make money, he employs some strange means.
He takes his metal detector, and wanders along the beach.
Is there some buried ...
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Categories:
metal detector, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow Mountain Clay
...want a metal detector,
I need to dig things up.
There's so much in the dirt,
and I can't get enough.
All that was left behind,
has since been immersed.
Forgotten graves deepen,
in ti...
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Categories:
metal detector, family,
Form: Free verse
911 Aftermath Misguided Haters
...You walk through the metal detector
You look at me with a deep seated scorn
You loath that I made you remove your stuff
You had to take off your shoes belt and jewelry
You’re thinking “I’m no crimin...
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Categories:
metal detector, fear, on work and
Form: Verse
The Thingymajigger-Whooslewhatsit
...it carries the baby
it cleans up the tub
it does all your homework
and gives great foot rubs
It takes out the trash
it can be a TV
it can play all your music
like a big mp3
it can be your...
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Categories:
metal detector,
Form: I do not know?
Old Pocket Knife
...Been carrying one since I was five, to school and everywhere, moons 60 now
Cut leather, whittle on a stick, never as a weapon, where has common sense gone?
If I was to go through a metal d...
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Categories:
metal detector, confusion
Form: I do not know?
I Dream...
...I dream of a clean class room, where I can learn in peace... and not have to worry
about if a bullet was meant for me.
This is America where freedom did ring and land were the pilgrims cried?
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Categories:
metal detector, confusion, education, hope, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
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