climbing into motorcade
...light pink suit
splatters of blood
secret service men climbing into motorcade
Dallas Texas
November 22, 1963
some of us will never be the same...
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Categories:
motorcade, memory,
Form: List
Wait For Me by the Tree
...Run! The city is going up in flame; run! The whole world is getting insane; run! it is not a game; grab your bag and run, leave that place and come, meet me at the foot of the hill and guard your fa...
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Categories:
motorcade, america, business, change, cheer
Form: Narrative
Have you got a Grimore of Light Filled with Dark Regrets
...
A voice whispered at 1 am.
As I sit alone at the worn gates of Yesterday
Looking through the Past's
White painted windows
Unafraid
Lost in deep thoughts as I watch once lost memories ...
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Categories:
motorcade, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Beginning of the End
...We all get beaten by the hammer of fate
Go to bed early or stay up late
It don't matter what's your regimen –
At a certain juncture the end will begin
Beginning of the end
Beginning of the ...
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Categories:
motorcade, angst, cool, death, depression,
Form: Epic
Saddle Your Horse
...Saddle your horse and get ready for the ride; this will be your final day before you take off to the sky, the weather is too dry over here and we have nothing more to share; I have to reserve what I ...
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Categories:
motorcade, appreciation, business, celebration, funny
Form: Lyric
Mischievous Gun
...We'd keep meeting wickedness
In all it's vile nakedness:
All the time, some wanton beast
Of dreamt - up foes makes a feast...
Yours was a sore cold murder
By one you'd thought a brother;
Amon...
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Categories:
motorcade, cry, death, evil, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Rhythm
...See them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing...
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Categories:
motorcade, animal, death, destiny, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Diary of a Child In Trinidad
...I remember the land of drums I was born
bedded beneath great hanging nets;
the sound of the conch and the horn.
My blue suitcase filled with stuff,
the red tricycle a...
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Categories:
motorcade, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Manifesto Motorcade
...show down in O Town
Freedom
a ticking time bomb
***...
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Categories:
motorcade, city, conflict,
Form: Senryu
Feel the Blue
...A sea of Blue line the city streets
A motorcade escorts him through
Bagpipes and drums ready to be heard
As white gloves line the hats brim
All in sync a salute to NYPD Blue
A saddened day that...
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Categories:
motorcade, angel, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
While Vehicle Underwent Routine Oil Change Today
...While vehicle underwent routine oil change today...
At Norm's Save Station
551 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, Pennsylvania,
yours truly suddenly realized
fifty eight years earlier
(a preschooler l...
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Categories:
motorcade, absence, america, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Car Snatchers Bounce Back
...‘Farewell’, we thought the Four bade,
To the angering crime of Raid,
And suddenly they vanished with Brown’s Motorcade,
Sprouting disappearing wings!
‘The Four Accursed Things!’
Off with a B-M-W...
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Categories:
motorcade, corruption, death, evil, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Beloved Jack
..."We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or make it the last."- John F. Kennedy
~
In three shots an assassin snuffed his life's worth
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Categories:
motorcade, america, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)
Cross Over
...Here I am waiting,
Still waiting to cross over
Here I am waiting with hope in my hand
And listening to the people singing a new song
My heart is a little heavy
And I am not happy but I am not ...
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Categories:
motorcade, celebration, community, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Buzzfeeding Sustenance Eating Drinking Beyond Point of Satiation
...Buzzfeeding sustenance (eating/drinking) beyond point of satiation
Bloated swollen cheeks
analogous to first Chinese Brother,
who swallowed the sea,
now non sequitur
off beaten track i.e.
le...
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Categories:
motorcade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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