Rackets Poems

Premium MemberThe Lonely Angel : Part Two

...Scatters through strangers' scraps,
spoilt teens point and laugh,
she'll feast on left over snacks,
fills her belly & crashes on grass.

Her warmth at night, snugly blanket,
given thoughtfu...
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Categories: rackets, society,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Precious Jewels

..."The days are jewels, keep them with care". Jackie Kennedy

    Aquamarine were summers with siblings 
      beneath skies of blue riding bikes or swimming.
        Days of emerald too were t...
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Categories: rackets, memory,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberNO FEAR OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALE LEFT OVER FROM MY NEIGHBORS JAN 6TH PENN COVEN WISCONSIN KKK

...AFTER GARGANO CRIME FAMILY OF MADISON WISCONSIN BLEW UP MY FACE WITH A CAR BOMB MY LIFE WAS THREATENED THEY BEGAN TO EXTORT MY LIVELY HOOD IMPERSONATE ME PAYING WISCONSIN CITY OFFICIALS TO FRAME DISA...
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Categories: rackets, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberDonald Mark and James Francis

...MARILYN HOLDING ON TO 
MEMORIES THROUGH ASHES 
REMEMERING THE LOST DONATE 
BONE MARROW SHORE CLAIR MICHIGAN 
MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU PLEASE 
STOP THREATENING MY LIFE 
I CAN'T IMAGINE AFTER ALL ...
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Categories: rackets, allah,
Form: Lento

Premium MemberHoover or Kirby Correctional payoffs

...Rather Galesburg Joliet 
Terrehaute Florence Colorado 
to the shores of Bogotá 
flushing heroin fentanyl 
through the gates behind bars 
thee corrupt prison ran 
by gang leaders paying 
off pr...
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Categories: rackets, allah, confidence,
Form: Masnavi


Premium MemberTraumatic brain injury headaches

...I shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm 
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim 
as crushing temporal lesion push against 
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves 
from my forehea...
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Categories: rackets, allah,
Form: Grook

Crane

...During the night, husks of buildings haunt the skies.
A hook hangs high a universe away.
It appears like a body - the way light lies.
Don’t do this anymore: make it day, make it day.

A swift gu...
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Categories: rackets, dark, death, grief, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Challenged Nigerian Pharmacists

...The Roadside Medicine Sellers
Are Pharmacists' bold tellers
Of an enduring contest
Not unlike a weighted test!

Ever waxing Drug Dealers
Competing as Sure Healers
But spinning laughing profits...
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Categories: rackets, death, evil, health, people,
Form: Rhyme

My Happen Stance

...Makin' proper time for the rule of rhyme,
With a hint of lime, see? It ain't no crime.
I'm breakin' my fast, watchin' the broadcast,
See what's amassed, from first I'll everlast.
Standin' 'bout f...
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Categories: rackets, confidence, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds



Flying
by Michael R. Burch

I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...

and then I'll sleep
and waste te...
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Categories: rackets, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGames People Play

...Each numbered square gives a clue
 For a puzzle with words across and down
Find the words that fit within
 Select the wrong word
 And things will go awry
 Get all right and its a win!

 Two wa...
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Categories: rackets, games,
Form: Free verse

Ancient Haiku

...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O...
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Categories: rackets, culture, imagery, inspiration, international,
Form: Haiku

Vapidity

...Woe betide lower men who fickle facades embrace
And wit’s hard-won gold for shifting dross exchange; 
Dubbing avarice-sired glosses exquisite gems pure,
With obscuring eyes decimating solid worth'...
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Categories: rackets, conflict, discrimination, fashion,
Form: Didactic

Rackets of Lies and Rockets of Truth

...Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and perish
Cruise to groove in truth and prune...
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Categories: rackets, poems,
Form: Free verse

Fruity Fruits Use Flambes Flamboyantly

...Go and play golf with a melon ball. Go on. It's great. No don't cut it into segments. How on earth are you going to hit it with the club if you do that? Right, now that is understood line up the melo...
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Categories: rackets, absence,
Form: I do not know?

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