Short Double Time Poems

Two panting hearts beating in synchronized time
Shadows twain follow eclipsing each rhythmic chime...

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Across the sky at end of day

I watched as birds set off home

 to roost. Straight home with no doubt

Direct through pink flush sky but look

One bird at the back desperate

Flapping double time to keep up 

 With the confident the strong the bold.

Oh dear bird with broken wing

You are the bravest of the lot.
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James Dean junket drive
Up the bend away at Five
Met his end all plaster-fied
The Hollywood pied piper

Hellva lot better Dean
A young-man Diana been
No old man crapping in a diaper

But a trip for the worse
Early turn in a hearse
No fun for fans all screaming

Running at double time
Crossing over the line
Makes an end of your California dreaming...

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i took some time to think
and what it is i thunk
double time inside my mind
is i don't think enough

whether on this side of smooth
or the other side of rough
is mostly what i thought it was 
when it was i thunk

when i'm on the brink of think
my mind in overdrive
thinking what i thunk i thought
is what i thought this time

mercy sakes alive
goodness gracious please
now that i've thunk all of this out
why do i even think...

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EVERYBODY WRITES A BOOK

They write a script, 
A poem on quips,
A paragraph,
A typed last draft,
He wrote a play,
She wrote today, 
They wrote together,
A score that's clever.  
It takes time,
To write a rhyme, 
And jot down notes,
With double quotes, 
Compose sublime,
In double time, 
Move the dance, 
With old romance.
The written condition, 
(It's my suspicion), 
Or one I took,
That when I look,
EVERYBODY, 
WRITES A BOOK.

by Edlynn Nau
© February 12, 2016...

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You do Poetry
I try to do rhyme
But my beats do not shine

My son George 
Well he does Grime
140 beats a minute at double time

Until the day we do meet
And you knock me off my feet
I will just carry on marking time

One step up and one step down
No talent at all from me 
That I have found

So I will start my own new genre
And then will call upon Ya

Grime or Rhyme what shall I do
Other than learn from you

Poetry is new to me
But I do concede

I like it..

DAMO...

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This heart of mine
Has a mind of its own
Filling in all space and time
With its own needs and wants

This heart of mine
Plays double time
Brings me close to loves edge
Then does what it likes

We need to talk
I wish my heart would listen
Come to my way of thinking
See all that it's missing

This heart of mine
Has no reason nor rhyme
For all that it does
Most of the time

This heart of mine
Leaves the scene of the crime
Before it's caught and does time
This heart of mine...

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