Short Rerun Poems

The Final Frontier,
Gateway to the Universe.
Enter open door....

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It’s the 
Longest 
Run 
Pats lost 
Maybe 
Next year 
We get a  
Rerun...

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The love of my life - on whom I dote
Was attacked in bed by Bill E. Goat
But she's rather plucky
And felt herself lucky
She could press REPLAY on the Remote....

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A brand new decade has just begun
Hope it's better than the last one, not a rerun
But we're always edgy
Have guns at the ready
Have been like this since the year one...

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Sunshine that keeps you warm
Sunrise that brings no harm
Sunlight that smiles on farm
Solar power of fun
Sweet or sour sweat run
Straight from the heart you shun
Sunrise, sundown, rerun...

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The sins of the father
the sins of the son
Repentance left vacant
each sorrow rerun
An age of despondence 
an age of denial
The past beyond hope
—the future beguiled  

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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Optimism is rising
  alongside inflation
Elation is spreading 
  across our great nation

It’s starting to look like
  there will be a rerun
in two years of Trump vs. Biden
  ~ to learn who really won...

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king surrenders crown
sheds cloak of nobility
bows 'neath ice queen's reign



9/26/19
Contest: A Transition of Seasons (Judged 10/7/19)
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin

Entered in N-A rerun 4 Poetry Contest
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REM dreams rerun
	the Saturday morning 
	Flash Gordons 
	of my sub-conscience
	on the backs 
	of my eyelids.

	The battle between 
	good and evil, 
	Flash versus Ming the Magnificent, 
	continues unabated 
	in the waking world,
	so I might as well 
	go back to sleep....

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My Life Beyond
My Life beyond
My Life Begun, my life is not done
I just rerun like a money machine  I stand on my ground  is your decision on your vision my amendment  my pledge no longer on the edge I'm talking league hitting the strike on my time continuing still standing...

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Away in a way dark
No one in my sight
Lone walk seems unending
In the moonless night

I’ve traveled a long way
Far away from you
Wish you’re now beside me
Darkness glues us two

I’ll explore you anew
The way I had done
First time in the dark park
You’ll feel the rerun...

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Night looms day, black croons white to bloom
As new day dawns, expectant of curtain call
But old cast in same play rerun doomed
To reel off the same old B-grade stuff
Unless you dawn awake before morn
And draft new play, and fledge fresh cast
A new chapter, a new one-act play baked afresh each day...

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Additions and retention,
Achievements and parties,
Blessed and cherished,
Benevolence and empathy,
Chortles and roars,
Diligence and success,
Family and friends,
Fortune and endeavour,
Hale and hearty,
Magnificence and power,
Memories and rerun.

Hey all! Have another year, 
Ecstatic and savoured!...

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he passed away
without a sound…
after all these years
we still listen to the 
silence of his departure


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[ded. to my elder brother]
Judged 12/13/2019 ~ NA
Memorial of a Loved One Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke

Contest N-A Rerun 4 by John Hamilton...

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Westinghouse won the currency war,

but here’s what nobody can ignore:

Edison’s fame forever burns bright

for his phonograph, film, and long-lasting light!


Nov. 6, 2019
for Maureen McGreavy's Pithy Pome Poetry Contest
N/A and very few reads or comments
Now for John Hamilton's N-A Rerun 4 Poetry Contest...

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Ringing in the New Year,
Ignites festal cheer.
Sparkling dance floor,
Glasses raise for a toast,
Showers of blessings,
Promises of love,
Youthful exuberance,
Burgeoning wings,
Untrammelled disposition,
Spirits unshaken,
Holidays flamboyant,
Achievements myriad,
Accolades and encomium,
Memories worth savouring rerun....

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Encumbered soft with sorrow’s ghost
      Alone among the torpid souls 
   A shadow grows at evening’s host
  Your name dims gently with the sun 
   With every dusk, my heart undone
    Old conversations – sacred scrolls
    The night unfolds, our love rerun
      Sweet sanity returns - almost

                  ABACCBCA...

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Though the credits are long past being done
We refuse to let our story end
The writers have become erratic
The plot a three time rerun
I read a scene that I have played
It’s now your part
I sit silently and watch
Your character has not rehearsed
You are broken and bloody
Simultaneously reaching out for help
While lunging for the kill...

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every time i try and every time i fail
the same words ring out
in my minds self erected jail
every time i try and every time i win
the silence is deafening
turmoil erupts within

could do no right
learnt to feed off the hate
take pain pass it on 
my hero i emulate
childsplay horror scene on continus rerun
must of been so hard for you
to have such a bad son...

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yellow day-lily’s grow
to glow like a van Gogh

pretty petals like tongues
with glee they bloom when young

reflect on ponds surface
perfect spring disturbance

but gone by tomorrow
like dawn ~ a fleeting show



7-11-2020    N/A
Verses In Essence - 8 Lines
Joseph May   

8-9-2020
N-A rerun 10 Poetry Contest
John Hamilton sponsor...

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as the tension grows inside me
my soul becomes weak
hope is just a fairytale
and love is just a dream
tears are a rerun pain is all around
happiness is a fantasy
thats no-where to be found
i need to know the way out
pain is putting me on a chain
i,m shackled to my memories
living life in vain
yet i start to vanish
smaller than a ant
but as hard as i try i can,t...

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CLARITY

crystal clear blues
emblazed
across thought of
Eternal sun
sparkling dark hues
encompass all
one by one
veins rerun
undone

small tender volumes
like tears that melt 
glass
my throat rolls the wine
a harsh acidic
farce
kissing life
between
elusive and vague
shafts

worlds growing
apart
strangling the
clarity of a 
lucid
finite




© Kim van Breda...

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With care, you turn a square
Each corner cutting sacrifice
The spinning warning whistle

The simple circle set aside
No force against the elements, it fails
Four sides equal turns a tale

On pace returns a pitter-patter pattern
Rerun your mind for recollection
Turn again to innocence unveiled

Restore relentless hands of time
Command your innocence to shine
In dominance, again prevail...

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It is autumn; my mind goes drifting
like wisps of dandelion fluff
which I wished on long ago
after spring’s sun-gold heads
vanished from the grass.
All I recall
is gone; now
all is
fall.

Written Aug. 23, 2019
for Caren Krutsinger's Autumn Or September Or October Nonet Poetry 
N/A and never re-entered in another Contest
Now used for John Hamilton's 'N-A rerun 3' Poetry Contest...

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Formed by mist that grasses adore
Reveries young coat the sky
Mixing life with energized core
Kodak of faces streaking by
-
I collect vignettes from a rushed earth
Filling cups of grails many by one
With these journeys since my birth
In rainstorms and summers rerun
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To recall how wife and I debate
Only to clutch her in tight embrace
But time steals joy, not a dot late
With broken chain, I can't keep pace.
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Frank H: I RECALL Contest...

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