Gateway Town
...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ...
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Categories:
mockups, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 12
...but this is certainly not intended
to be an instrument of terror
except maybe for the habitual
who are out for my blood
and from whom I am occasionally rescued
speaking of which
it looks like t...
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Categories:
mockups, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Ual 747 Maiden Voyage
...How I recall the magnificent sight
Of my first view of the new Jumbo Jet.
Boeing took such pride in its maiden flight,
That it could not fly, was the standing bet.
Majestic it rolled out on the...
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Categories:
mockups, adventure, beauty, flying,
Form: Sonnet