Attack of the 70ft Super Ego
...INT. SCENE 1 – THE AWAKENING – DAY
FADE IN:
It was born in a test tube,
Twitching organic mass, form skewed.
They fed it chaos and it grew.
More tests ordered. More data due.
They poked it ...
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Categories:
newscast, birth, film, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
They've Betrayed Us - III, Part I
...III.
Do you know of naïve Martin
who saw a report on the news
of how a young, black man was killed,
that the police had shot the dude!
Now protestors were raising hell,
he saw a large mob on TV...
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Categories:
newscast, betrayal, celebrity, confusion, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Day
...Memorial Day Poetry Contest
Oliver Mckeithan
To the many veterans, and regretfully to the many sacrificial lambs of the Viet Nam war my eyes will always tear for you. No medals or rewards. But yo...
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Categories:
newscast, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Just the Facts, Please
...If I would be known as an advocate
Let it be for what’s just and fair,
As I see it, telling it right and straight
The truth is not in a lot of hot air!
In any case, I would much rathe...
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Categories:
newscast, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Eulogy Writers
...I watched them tell a story
of a man that went through Hell
And the story of them falling
for the end that meant as well
For the bolstering of their egos
in a help that's meant to all
In the ...
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Categories:
newscast, 8th grade, abuse, allusion,
Form: Quatrain
The Hostess
...The hostess asked to see their proof
That they’d received vaccines,
For New York law requires it
In their pre-seating screens.
The women, Texas tourists,
In a mean, entitled rage,
Thought tha...
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Categories:
newscast, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Overload
...Fire raged through heavy wooded terrain,
Blizzard hit the panhandle hard,
Bad windstorm slammed the western plains,
Mudslides hid hundreds of backyards.
Brutal sandstorm swept throu...
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Categories:
newscast, america, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Amazing Newscast
...M-edia
A-nnouncer's
E-veryday
B-roadcast
I-n
N-ational
A-udience
U-ses
H-er
A-mazing
N-ewscast
Topic: Birthday of Mae Binauhan (May 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
newscast, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Tonight
...Tonight
When I entered my apartment
The stairs were lying like tired men after a hard day's work
The door a yawning mouth
My TV was listening intently to the sports newscast
And
Like a huge...
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Categories:
newscast, night,
Form: ABC
Bologna
...What do you do on a rainy afternoon as this?
Nowhere to go, really,
Unlike the little cars and big rigs humming by down the rural highway outside the window
Competing with the lighter and heavi...
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Categories:
newscast, cheer up, day, farm,
Form: Narrative
Bughuul Man
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He’s the devil in your tormented dreams
The shadowy, nightmarish silhouette imp
of a thousand horror newscast,
who muzzles your petrified screams
Keeping those silent eyes
glued to the ...
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Categories:
newscast, culture, dark, identity, symbolism,
Form: Burlesque
The News
...The New's makes it look like everyone's dying.
The New's makes it look like nothing's alright.
And when you should watch it, you wonder who's dead-
than what could your Newscast have showed you ...
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Categories:
newscast, 5th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Couplet
The Sane Side of the Veil
...He looks into her catatonic eyes
and wonders what lies
beyond the vail of sanity.
Does the madness she screamed of hold her captive
in the twisted bowels of her mind?
He prays an escape she will...
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Categories:
newscast, allusion, corruption, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Path Taken Part 3
...While the doctor who is responsible for his care in the hospital had dexterity and grace in his fingertips, he also has humility in his heart. He was interview in for the 9:00 pm newscast, but he to...
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Categories:
newscast, write, writing,
Form: Verse
Give Life a Blast
...Today I'm going to give life a blast
By not being shackled to my past
There I felt like a lonely outcast
The sun is shining today, my personal forecast,
even in the midst of storm; today's newsca...
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Categories:
newscast, inspirational, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
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