Rotors Poems

Premium MemberTangled In Helium Balloons

...Birds wrapped in sung sun swallows
tangled in helium let off balloons
bursting to confetti on new year's eve
silvery sliding snakes race the rails
against roller- racing take-off gliders
Eve...
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Categories: rotors, dream, longing, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMemories

...Memories

First Platoon boards the Huey, sickly smell of sweat and death
elbow to elbow we sit cramped in the narrow compartment

hot, sticky air like a sauna grips us in its wet claws
rotors s...
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Categories: rotors, war,
Form: Free verse


16 Lines on School Bus stop sign

...In The Town Of Alabaster Alabama Limited in population like 103
     I was issued an unreasonable fine driving on 31 south rush hour
     see a random abnormality, a bus with a flashing sign 4 lane...
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Categories: rotors, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Blimp Is On The Fritz Again

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My blimp is on the fritz again
The hovercraft just popped
I surely cannot take the car
That’s jacked up in the shop

The bus won’t come out to my house
There’s no train tracks nearby
But I...
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Categories: rotors, funny, humorous, technology,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry

...The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry

Fear, you are weightier than gravity
in pulling the stomach to the ground.

Rotors slowed and sound waned 
as the helicopter sided, meeting the concrete
in a ...
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Categories: rotors, dark, fear, horror, night,
Form: Narrative


Premium MemberThe Bird of Freedom

...Alone and cold,
Hurt bleeding,
Clothes of blood,
Touching, pressure, pain,
Looking,
Finding,
Dressing Pressure, tight,
Pain moaning hurt,
Stay awake,
Hearing noises shh be quiet,
Breathing ...
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Categories: rotors, america, courage, evil, horror,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHybrid I Did

...Those scientists, they have no clue
I’m doing what they will not do
I’m gonna scramble nature just for you
My cat’s mixed with a chicken
And it isn’t finger lickin 
But now my cat goes cock-a-do...
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Categories: rotors, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues

...tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with pri...
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Categories: rotors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

A Hot Lz At Night

...A HOT LZ AT NIGHT

Rotors swimming in the air,
my feet towards the skids;
flying fast in darkness. 

Pack tight against my body,
one hand for the bird,
one hand for the rifle.

Tracers lazi...
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Categories: rotors, anxiety, conflict, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse

Continuation of Brodskys History of the Twentieth Century

...Continuation of Brodsky’s History of the Twentieth Century 

1918.  A flu pandemic in Spain takes hold, 
From Kansas over the seas in America bold, 
Women’s suffrage win the vote, 
Their opinion...
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Categories: rotors, business, car, history, leadership,
Form: Tail-rhyme

The Day That Last For Ever

...The day that lasted for ever, a day that could not be undone.

The day that lasted for ever, as I laid there in the sun, the pop pop of weapons fire is all that i could understand.

Something had...
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Categories: rotors, angel, bible, body, death,
Form: I do not know?

Brake Change

...Rotors spinning 
Desentigration 
Gods kingdom 
Deceptive revelation 
Lies built - unto the throne 
Living without guilt 
Dying all alone. 
Callaper grinds 
Whatever she finds 
Like god throw...
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Categories: rotors, age, allegory, art, bereavement,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I'M Coming Home

...As I wave goodbye and walk away the kisses and cuddles from my loved ones still fresh in my mind I set my sights on what will be my new daily grind.  To Afghanistan I flew  to fight for my country, I...
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Categories: rotors, emotions, military,
Form: Rhyme

Winter Wind

...Churlish wind hovers overhead
Ready to chart its path of dread
By wistful, listless conductor led
Twirling baton with rotors fed
A swirling blender over land spread
Careening, eerie echo left in...
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Categories: rotors, nature
Form: Rhyme

Beautiful Idiosyncrasies

...What if I were to lie?
What, if I were lye?
Don't you look at me that way.
Don't you look away!

The blond hairs on your back
I know it's cold.
Where are you going with this?
Wherever you are told.

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Categories: rotors, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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