Short Headline Poems

NSA to collect DNA
of CPA found DOA....

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celebrity ,headline news ,okay
yesterday's paper binned today...

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This is the headline that broke my will.
"Optimist Drowns In Bath Tub Half Full."...

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Headline: "Bieber jailed."
And you tell me there's a God?
I won't sleep. Will you?...

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I once read a headline that crushed my optimistic will,
"Optimist Drowns In Bathtub Half Full."...

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If you are ever torn
Google it
Unless its 
April 1st
Or headline news
Then save your Data
Ignore it...

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Self employed without wages
just to keep others popular
no headline dissociates from her lips...

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Please headline me in a Broadway Show
I want to be featured before I go
Sing? No not me.
Dance? Maybe. Let’s see.
I just want to dazzle, sizzle and glow....

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sounds of gunfire
    shatter a warm afternoon...
         one more lockdown

gray feral pigeons
     scatter from their rooftop nests  ...
         tomorrow's headline...

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His prickly quills were more than a few,
her black ink was seldom used,
octopus in sink,
porcupine got ink,
their writing poems making headline news.






11-5-16...

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[Composed after yet another news headline 
of a pastor advocating death to all LGBTQ people]


Christians, Christians,
full of Christian love
If there was a god he'd smash
them flat from up above....

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I knew better
- a headline taught me
I hated intensely
- a headline enticed me
I clicked furiously
- a headline led me
I argued vigorously
- a headline fed me
I grew superior
- a headline lifted me.
The story?
Oh, too boring....

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For fifty-seven years his life to Congress Senator Robert Byrd did devote
Upon his death the headline said, "Democrats Mourn Loss of Much-Needed Vote"




*Senator Byrd had served in the US Congress since Eisenhower was president....

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The bending light from the headline
News
As it enters my optic
Nerve
Resonates from eager
Fingertips
Coursing to my
Cortex
As the crisp crunch of
Paper
Crackles in self
Satisfaction
The pungent wisp of fresh
Paper
And strong
Ink
Refract
A
Poem

...I can touch



05/12/13...

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An ATM laughed at his check,
so Florida man said, “The heck?”
He took out his hatchet
to try to unlatch it,
So the cops bounced him onto the deck.


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Attacks ATM with Hatchet After it Refuses to Take His Check"...

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A Florida man went to the park,
did martial arts there after dark.
His wax more off than on,
he karate-kicked swans
and yelled at the cranes on a lark.


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Arrested in Local Park for 'Practicing Karate' on Swans"...

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Crashing and smashing,
CRASH! SMASH!
Then stop.
There the man is lying.
He is not a celebrity,
Or, some irritated,
On the hands of fame;
Or, one of the terrorists-
Will claim a headline.
Yet he lies peacefully there,
Under the tyres of civilization,
And Without any accusation,
Untill......

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A Florida Man at IHOP
was charged when he posed as a cop.
They would not give him food,
so he got rather lewd;
dropped his pants right there at the shop.


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Actual headline: “Florida Man flashes buttocks at IHOP after impersonating a police officer to get free food”...

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A Florida man bought a stool.
The seat? A bit hard on the jewels…
Now he takes pills to soften,
and he sits there less often;
this Florida man is no fool!


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Thought He Stole Opioids, Got Laxatives Instead"
Obviously, a stretch here... :-)...

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Wangari Maathai is not dead 
I roll back my tear
Peer from my window
Deep the grooming forest

Switch off my radio
Tear the headline
I refuse the epitaph
I write no word

Her monument must sprout 
Beyond the canopy
She died to defend

Let Wangari not die
Mother of mother nature
Where she lives!...

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Headline: President Biden tours orchard, says he came for the cherry pie. July 3, 2021

Can you buy a cherry pie
Joey Boy, Joey Boy?
Can you buy a cherry pie
Uncle Joey?

I can buy a cherry pie
Fast as an, ah, you know the thing can wink its eye.

I'm an old man
And cannot find my note card....

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Headline news lead bleeds
Accidental haiku death
Investigated

Killed by tainted verse
Unidentified victim
Radioactive

Exotic poem
Attracts curious reader
Dripping vitriol

Extreme allergic
Reaction resulted in
Death of some poor schmuck

Industry spokes folks
Encourage illiterates
Stay away from words...

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Husband, brother, son, 
lover, friend - 
Will we see you again?
Will you be a headline on the news?
Unarmed and unashamed.
We stand fearful and furious
in tear soaked silent pleas.
Something must change.
His skin won't warrant death,
and our hearts won't continue to pay 
the inexcusable cost
of love in America....

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Dust in sky river
Venomous teeth in globe air
Unhappy nature

Watching headline news
Lockdown time is extended
Freedom mind feels pain

Opening doors and
window; full free the feet are
Yet I'm in four walls

Need to wash stained heart
Not by detergent powder
But by love and care

01.04.2020 (Chattogram City)...

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Oak Street had three car wrecks in one week
After the mayor and his wife put out their Christmas display
Santa and his reindeer, inflatables.

Newspaper headline said
Please do not go to Oak Street and gawk at Christmas display
We have had three wrecks

Sixteen families headed to their cars
There were six more wrecks...

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