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Odometer Poems - Poems about Odometer

NIGERIA AND BAD BELLY

...Nigerian people let us embrace the truth,
Bad Belly is Bad Belly
It is Bad Belly when your Father beats his chest,
And declares that "he is the giant of Africa," 
But he cannot boast of ordinary ...
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Categories: odometer, africa, betrayal, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Heterosexual married sexagenarian male

...Heterosexual married sexagenarian male...

Aims to trigger cerebral ******;

Other terms for said phenomena are 
"brain tingles" and "head ******." 
This sensation is described as a pleasant, 
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Categories: odometer, 12th grade, beautiful, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAll Time Is of the Lord

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All Time Is Of The LORD
By: Miracle Man
7/15/2023

I awoke this morning
with a stretch and yawn.
One step and I realized
I wasn’t King but still a Pawn.

I had remained a prisoner
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Categories: odometer, change, god, time,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberWinter's Gifts

...Cloud covers swept over us
Receded then came again
I looked at the lulls and gusts
Then gripping the wheels refrain

Signs loomed out of the darkness,
Warning of “potholes ahead”.
I mused over...
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Categories: odometer, faith, night, snow, storm,
Form: Rhyme

As Dreamers Do

...fading light captured
the roadside shimmers
soft shadows fall on ditches
I’ve been here before
I watch numbers change
on the odometer for amusement
to mark the passage of my life
a familiar so...
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Categories: odometer, memory, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Devotions of Noel

...Saturnalia, the pagan worship of winter solstice,

                                  the darkest tidings of the year.

                             The birth of our Nazarene most likely

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Categories: odometer, christmas, culture, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse

Aha Argh Oh My Dog

...Aha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?

Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact even at this moment,
yours tru...
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Categories: odometer, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative

Can Somebody Please Give This Uber **** Fuller a Lyft

...Can somebody please give this uber **** fuller a lyft?
alternately titled: jump starter for clunky, junky,
quirky, xyz mechanic wanted in tow tow -
chassis what I mean?)

As the proud graduated
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Categories: odometer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Tongue In Cheek Balm

...The (tongue In Cheek) Balm...
Of "permanent" Sleep

Abbott, nothing beats the
     immortal heavenly reincarnation
     after mortality odometer
     unexpectedly set to zeros
preparing deceas...
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Categories: odometer, absence, allah, angel, celebration,
Form: Free verse

The Dream

...leaning on the fender
of someone else's dream
am i really in here
or just pretending to be
not ready yet to wake up
please don't pinch me

the owner of the dream i think
looks at me and smile...
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Categories: odometer, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Searching, Still

...I am searching.
For things I’m afraid cannot be found. 
That may not even be there. 
And yet I look.
Under throw pillows as I grab them to place
on my stomach, and grasp round’ at friend’s house...
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Categories: odometer, anxiety, deep, future, introspection,
Form: Free verse

A Constant Mistake of Time and Structure

...It was forty by the thermometer
The moon closed in
It was a cold and numbered day
If I remember
It was time to waste
If not It was a memory
And there it faded

It was thirty by the numbered m...
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Categories: odometer, age, change, dark, future,
Form: Free verse

Bike Riding

...Bike Riding

Once, I was able to navigate my sleek black Fuji racer, sitting arrow straight, pushing hard, and hands at my side. It’s amazing to think I was able to maintain my balance, down hills,...
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Categories: odometer, adventure, change, nostalgia, old,
Form: Verse

2,000 Miles

...As the odometer had read that day, nine seventeen seventeen
Least in my head, but not knowing really what it would mean
Then after a few weeks passed it clearly came into such light
For that's whe...
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Categories: odometer, judgement, lost, world,
Form: Rhyme

A Mistake of Time and Structure

...It was forty by the thermometer
The moon closed in
It was a cold and numbered day
If I remember
It was time to waste
If not It was a memory
And there it faded

It was thirty by the numbered m...
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Categories: odometer, age, deep, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse

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