Inspiration Number Poems

This hasn't quite worked, so I'll have to revisit it. I listened to Chopin Opus 9 number 1 for inspiration and got lots of sprawling...

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Number 42 Retire
Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42
Hang up your jersey, honey
No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson

Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere
When...

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The number nine,
 when said, is a bright red!

As pleasant to see as a red rose,
hat opens for the morn'. 

Whose petals I see may...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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File Number

364 was especially hard to deal with today. 
The worker made a check in the empty box. 
She used red ink. 

Wife beater, 
drinker,...

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Days from now we'll be married
Nervous as I could be
Are you really gonna marry me
Is this thing for real
Stumbling over my yesterday's
Hoping everything will
Be okay
Can't...

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Astronaut William Anders's space photo,
Onboard Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve,
Nineteen sixty-eight, a bit of a show,
Influence nature, world-renown to be,
Taken with the moon as in...

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see what I mean
hear what I say
relevant to whats 
going on
does it mater anyway
functions of consequence
measures right and wrong
each word
the lyrics
the riffs
and the song
gotta be...

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Time is a gracious thing, 
Not designed to be troubling. 
But rather, allows us to, 
Make ourselves whole heartedly anew. 
It promises a new tomorrow,...

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“MAGDALENA #3”


never forget the name of this poet.
the name will bring you assurance of a love unlike any other.
you will be given strength, 
thoughts you...

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planning my next trip
to tranquility bay
picking up my keys
to the keys....a view
to look forward to

planning my next trip
to tranquility bay
once again pulling the
throw blanket over...

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Dear Lord,
Forgive me of evil deeds;
You can be done with me.
I’m a lost soul;
I have a heart that’s black and cold.
I know I won’t live...

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Number Twenty-Five

I was the newcomer to the group
A bored and hungry chauffeur
There on a cold day for hot soup,
Sandwich and the attitude de jour

The afternoons...

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