Subterranean Homesick Blues - Archimedean Homesick Blues
This poem, which is loaded with math terms, is to be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues. What was I thinking?
Johnny’s in the basement
Working on geometry
You’ll see my intent
A theorem in development
Presh is on the website
Hit pause, scratch head
Trick problem, misled
Try another approach instead
Look out kid
Better check it
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Categories:
subterranean, math, music,
Form: Rhyme
Subterranean Feeling
Light subterranean
Reflecting love unusual
Run in veins terrain.
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Categories:
subterranean, deep, feelings, love, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Lost Subterranean City
lost subterranean city of the Grand Canyon
Fact, legend, Hopi story or cover-up?
In 1909 Arizona Gazette printed the story
A secret underground citadel a mile down
discovered by G E Kinkaid, a renown explorer
also the first white baby born in Idaho
the mysterious cavern was etched out in rock
shaped like the spokes of a wagon wheel
could have held up
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Categories:
subterranean, travel,
Form: Narrative
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again
Dan's on the mezzanine
asking where the mayor lives
I'm on the dole line,
wondrin bout conservatives
The man with the leg cramps
boot camps wheel clamps
says they cut his food stamps.
Look out son,
he’s packin a gun:
God knows why
Pat Boone, full moon
someone's gonna die soon.
Del's on welfare,
Donald
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Categories:
subterranean, satire,
Form: Lyric
Subterranean
Down under
Asunder
There's worlds of wonder
Where etiquette
Meets surrogate
And the dress code's
Downright Confederate
Slithering among creepy crawlers
That descend from the
Heavenly puke-encrusted abyss above
Known as Hollywood Blvd
I lower myself
Literally
Metaphorically
Into puddles of
Absentee-orchestrated nausea
I wear the badge
Singed onto calluses
Coated with despair
Flavored with bacteria's black-dead cousins
There's more honor to own
When you don in early light
Here ye, shall
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Categories:
subterranean, dark, hyperbole, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse
Phantom's Subterranean Vault
Phantom's Subterranean Vault
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Basement
Placement
Poetic Form: Footle
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Categories:
subterranean, angst, childhood
Form: Light Verse