Steve Wonder - Superstition
Written: April 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Karen Jones
Stevie Wonder Song ( Superstition )
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When you cling to ideas you don't understand,
The void spins its webs, and shadows dance.
Superstition is a paranormal phenomenon in
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Categories:
steve, appreciation, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Accidental love
I once had a beautiful life or so I thought, a beautiful, perfect lady or so I imagined, for me she was my world, for her it was my wealth or nothing, how contrasting these two weighing scales were. I was a well established banker who had everything going on well for him, I
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Categories:
steve, anger, art, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
A CAT NAMED STEVE
Old Steve was a marvelous kitty
But what happened to Steve was a pity
He was born in a barn
On a twelve-acre farm
His career was chasing the vermin
Long before he met Farmer Herman
But the farmer had plans
To abandon his lands
And take Steve on the road
For a debt never owed
The dismay, the humiliation, the shame
No one but
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Categories:
steve, 10th grade, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme
The Three Apples
Eden's fruit gleams red —
Knowledge wounds deeper and sharper than now
Silicon dreams wake
Gravity's whisper
Via a slew of logical falls
Into neural nets
Jobs' crystal garden
Where aluminium meets glass
Future blooms within
Digital serpents
Now weave through quantum orchards
Teaching metal minds
Machine-wisdom fruit
Ripens on carbon branches
Beyond human reach
Paradise regained?
Or wandering circuits that learn
To think like gods do?
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Categories:
steve, fruit,
Form: Free verse
No Expectations
Can a song be so sad it becomes beautiful?
A record listened to with such incessance
Its needle scratches and wobbles
Becomes desperate new notes for the melody?
The song unrecognizable to the listener
Without its own personalized warp
From a thousand roundabout journeys?
Try
Hurrah For The Riff Raff’s Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament)
Or their Ogallala
Try on Steve Earle’s Last Words
Or
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Categories:
steve, appreciation, beautiful, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Steve Seagull
High atop our chimney breast,
Lives Steve Seagull upon his nest.
He’s a highly trained, bombing master,
Atop my rooftop, his name spells disaster.
If you’re like me, and live down by the sea,
You’d better hide quick, and find the nearest tree.
He thinks the seaside sky’s his domain,
And his mission is to cause both misery and pain.
Steve seagull, he
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Categories:
steve, animal, bird, conflict, flying,
Form: Rhyme
The Incredible Steve Jobs-Septet
Miracle, thanks,Steve.
My door to the world!
Conjoining of such dear hearts!
Beloved albums of friends, family.
Portable PC for me.
Joy for we!
Dedicated in Memoriam, Steve Jobs
1/24/2023
Form…….SEPTET (see below}
Line 1~3 syllables
Line 2~5 Syllables
Line 3~7 Syllables
Line 4~9 Sylabbles
Line 5~5 Syllables
Line 6~3 Syllables
Pioneer of the Septet was Geoffrey Chaucer!
He is
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Categories:
steve, appreciation, dedication, happiness, technology,
Form: Other
Steve Bob
slits in the blinds
of a guestroom
leaking morning through
skinny orange white cat
follows an old man in his underwear
down the hall to the bathroom
and back to his bed
she meows, stands on his chest
rubs her nose on his head
purrs
licks his whiskers
--part of the hospitality package
echoes down the hall
cries
his almost two year old
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Categories:
steve, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
An American Thought - Title By Steve Miller
Do you know why we celebrate Memorial Day,
Or are you just glad to have the day off work or school?
Do you think of the soldiers that have passed away
To give you the freedom to drink a beer and play pool?
Memorial Day is a day to remember,
A day set aside to think of our country’s past.
It’s
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Voice No One Heard - Title By Steve Miller
Being your daughter has been an incredible gift.
You and Dad have given me such a wonderful life.
I know that, before me, your lives seemed to be adrift,
But, because of you, I am a mother and a wife.
You both raised me with nothing but happiness and love
And now I get to pass on that warmth to
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
I've Lived My Entire Life In the Dark - Title By Steve Miller
I’ve lived my entire life in the dark
Never knowing what was around the bend.
My future would always seem pretty stark.
I never knew on whom I could depend.
My life was very different from yours,
That I can absolutely guarantee.
I never saw anything but closed doors.
But please don’t ever take pity on me.
Early on, I would try to
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
For Someone Else, Not Me - Title By Steve Miller
Your hair moves in the wind like the ocean waves.
Your eyes sparkle like two shining stars in the sky.
Your smile can light up the deepest, darkest caves.
Your voice can comfort a baby who wants to cry.
These are a few of the things that I think about,
When sitting alone in the dark and quiet night.
You’ll be
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Midas Touch
In all that which could have been wearisome
Ended up an experience quite awesome
A process we all believed rigorous
He handled to show himself The Vigorous;
A task we all took for The Onerous,
He easily made us want numerous;
A journey we all judged as The Perilous,
He proved one that would us make sedulous;
Conditions we felt were not innocuous
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Categories:
steve, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Void You Leave Behind Will Become My Constant Companion - Title By Steve Miller
You’re always my first thought when I wake up each day,
Whether times are rough, or they seem like paradise.
When I need it most, you always know what to say
And you always bless me with wonderful advice.
But, I don’t know what I will do after you’re gone.
That first day will be different from the others.
Just know
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Circle of Life: Looking For Answers - Title By Steve Miller
I still don't fully understand why I'm even here.
I haven't found that "purpose" that others talk about.
I analyze my life at the end of every year,
Only to discover another year of mental drought.
I live my life day after day and week after week,
Waiting for a sign to tell me that what I do is right.
All
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Categories:
steve, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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