Short Tapes Poems

China on the boom
On steels, chips, tapes and tiles
That burst into bloom....

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Native’s perception
Behind red tapes deception
Walls infiltration

By Robb A. Kopp...

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they gave up parts of their flesh
to reproduce a baby
only get a porcupine
and a collection of red tapes...

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for heavensake
i love my tapes
and i play
in everyway 
everyday
on the way home
with my headphone
i puge in
WHILE run for fun
in
my 
WALKMAN...

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for heavensake
i love my tapes
and i play
in everyway 
everyday
on the way home
with my headphone
i puge in
WHILE run for fun
in
my 
WALKMAN...

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Wearing a midnight black track suit
White and yellow tapes on boots
Them lines on the road
Tiny cars stuck as a code
With road signs would look real cute...

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Jane says that 
Old Dick is dead
Along with painting
And the guitar

That technology 
Has replaced them
And put them in storage, 
IN museums and on digital tapes

But that when 
The technology is down
She prays 
That Old Dick 
Will show up...

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They're crowding me out,
Tape, books, I live in
Three square feet,
My collecting days,
Led to my defeat.


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Stuttered speech

There was once a man, let’s call him Fitch,
He bought tapes that in sleep Spanish teach,
Tapes skipping during night,
The plan failed to play right,
And his Spanish was a stuttered speech.
____________________________________________________
     Tongue-in-cheek | 18.02.2017 |...

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Strange, 
But I've seen you
Everywhere lately. 

Caramel colored
Girls, either you
or your daughter.

I'm not quite
Sure. 

But I laugh inside. 

The Challenger may 
Have exploded, but 
We didn't.

The cassette tapes
May have been lost. 

But not the smiles, 
the cupcakes, 
the ruler, 
and what was most important....

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This awakening
Of listening to tapes
And viewing my life in verse

This strength not to rage
But to reflect for guide posts
For detours lurking
For words to be wary of
The very cost of thoughts I've beheld
Of moves I have choreographed;

I now know of ease, and courage
Not forgetting to regret... .

*

(To be cont.)...

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The clouds make shapes
When you’re looking
When you’re not

Echoes in tapes
Once recorded
Now forgot

Water escapes
from high cliffs
That’s its plot

Leaves leave by breeze
Red in autumn 
Sun burns hot

Moments like these 
Take torrid flight
Then they flock

Doing what they please
When you’re looking 
When you’re not...

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This is meant to be read with a French accent to aid the rhyme scheme:

WikiLeaks has tapes with Assange
Where Donald asks Vlad to arrange 
More Russian hookers
Who are the best lookers
To pee and tint Trump’s hair orange


Author's note: His die hard supporters should be required to die their hair orange too. At least that would be funny....

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outside the norm
but an inside part
over their lines
but inside my heart

not going to let others
decide what's right for me
the books and tapes
discussing thoughts and feelings

gonna live outside the rules
of typical behavior
an aggregate response
a taste I'm gonna savor

outside the norm
but an inside part
crossing over their lines
but listening to my heart...

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Back Then
______________________________

Do you remember the good old days,
records,8 tracks and tapes
peanuts in your cola
cards in your spokes and easy bakes.


Kids knew the meaning no,
going outside was safe
hiding seek was so much fun
I know you can relate

Lights out meant just that,
we ate what was made
and grew up just fine
better than they do today.

7/14/15
Jessica Thompson...

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men have always wooed me with music
songs concerts mixed tapes and cds
boxes and buckets and tickets of music
a hand extended listen to this so you know
what I'm
trying to say

men have always wooed me with music
the sweetest way into my heart
when its so hard impossible to say how your feeling
or what you wish could be
do you know how I feel 
when I hear this 
song?

I feel like I love you...

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Can spiders surf the web?
Do cows like livin' in a shed?
Are housemice ever homeless?
Do snakes like bein' boneless?
Why cant toads cross the roads?
Why do sheep help you sleep?
Who do dogs like chasin' logs?
Why do birds have white turds?
Why do horses run round courses?
Can badgers lick their tadgers?
Why are deer so full of fear?
Whether apes like juicy grapes? 
 And why do flies like sticky tapes?
©John-Ovan.P.Hull...

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We see them in old movies,
aged sitcoms –
black and white
or fading color.

We hear ancient languages—
dead voices on sound tracks,
buried giggles, awkward squawks
of unexpected laughter.

We relish corpses—
old friends,
remembered relatives
stiff in brown photographs.

Reels creak, VHS tapes moan,
DVDs hum silently 
with sprocket holes, 
white scratches in sky,
burnt nitrate edges of night.

We relish corpses.

They are us....

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Most beautiful thing in the world
Uniqueness in audio form
Synthesized or guitar driven
Intelligent or dance worthy
Cd's, eight tracks, tapes, and now DVDs
Acoustic or piano
Leveling enemies to a common likeness
Love songs or hate anthems
You know you love it 

Enthusiastic but not
Crazy admirer
Love for all types
Even guilty pop pleasures
Connecting with different people
Typically 
Informing others of a message
Crazy about everything music...

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My mother is a kind of person on the planet
Who cannot watch movies on tv or the internet
Because she thinks they're real.

I tell her of the video shoots
And say it's just a movie.
She leans back and at me she hoots
'My boy don't be a rookie'.

And so I linger with the rest
Of borrowed video tapes.
Mama home like a house arrest
My mocking brother gapes.

I still can't watch Spartacus,
Vampire Diaries nor Nikita.
Daily we watch In Focus
From Voice of America....

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