Before the City Dawns
(A subaltern dawn song...)
We rise before the rooster cries,
Before the sky begins to blush,
Before the bosses sip their tea,
We sweep the silence with a hush.
The city sleeps in dreams of glass,
We move like whispers through its veins
With a broom, a bucket and barefoot grace,
Erasing footprints made of stains.
The milkman’s cycle hums its tune,
His bell rings
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Categories:
sweep over, absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
Sweep Me Back In Time
I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
rolling them over and over and over
leaving this reality behind, far behind...
Oh, magic rocks, please sweep me back in time-
back then, some fifty-four years in the past,
when she was young and meant to stay with me
and tell me things she wanted me to know.
Yes, Mother dear, I miss
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Categories:
sweep over, longing, magic, travel,
Form: Blank verse
Sweep
Hello and handshakes,
now old hat,
that brief hello,
wiggling through teeth.....
a stiff aura
still making breakfast,
news blabbing
from the old TV,
touching is only
on a big screen,
a carbon copy
of middle aged parents,
tequila on Friday
the bright spot,
like sunshine
on a
wrinkled countenance,
gazing right through each other,
the big mirror,
a comfort zone,
waiting
for one or the other
to push out
first.
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Categories:
sweep over, age,
Form: Free verse
Sweep Stake
Floridians love a palm tree
With fronds as pretty as can be
Along came Ian
Blowin' and peein'
And now there's nothing else to see
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Categories:
sweep over, weather,
Form: Limerick
Words Sweetly Sweep
My Words sweetly sweep.
across her ear lobes.
into her canals beating against
Her tightly stretched drums
to lingering memories
of past pleasures
beyond any treasures
and never any successors
for my words are the sweetest
and the deepest that enters her canals.
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Categories:
sweep over, beautiful, celebration, crush, desire,
Form: Free verse
Luna's Lambent Sweep
Like a mourning dove, my lament is spilled
I cry in grief as shadowed night grows cold
Spirit crushed from love's promise, unfulfilled
Burdensome sorrows in my heart unfold
Succumbed by tears, I piteously weep
In sullen thoughts and restless sleep, I dwell
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Categories:
sweep over, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Cleaning Up My Spirit, I Am Using My Jesus Sweep
Cleaning up my spirit; I am using my Jesus Sweep. Letting go all these evil spirits because they are too heavy to keep. Hanging on to a thin thread as I look up high, surrounded by God’s love as I climb up the sky and fly. Cleaning up my spirit, as I look inside.
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Categories:
sweep over, christian, evil, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Use Broom To Sweep Away Doom
Use Broom to Sweep Away Doom
What we did do with a straw broom,
Would be to sweep away our doom,
Which existed,
And persisted,
That was spread all over the room.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
sweep over, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Trump Authority Would Sweep
Trump Authority Would Sweep
This is what MSNBC was saying.
While at night we were sound asleep,
Trump gave authority that did sweep;
Small hand;
Face tanned;
No wonder people call him a creep.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
sweep over, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Keep It Sweep It Throw It Away
Keep it, sweep it, throw it away.
Box it up, go outside and play.
Bag it, gag it, it is always in your way.
Stop bringing home junk every single day.
The money you spend, will be gone soon enough.
Talk to yourself, and be really tough.
The piles and bags and boxes of stuff
Will be thrown away by your relatives
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Categories:
sweep over, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sweep In Like a Summer Breeze
Melodies of magical wind chimes
Carry me back to such blissful times
Hand-in-hand we planned for a long life
Dreams to share as you made me your wife
When a summer breeze rides on the seas
I still hear your voice and I’m at ease
Now I wander the shoreline alone
A child left behind by fate’s cyclone
As I stroke fallen plumes
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Categories:
sweep over, husband, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Depletion Sweep
LOVE RIDDEN
I SWALLOW
MY DIGNITY
FADE INTO THE CORNER
MAKE MY WAY
AROUND THE CIRCLE
A CAROUSEL OF REGRETS
FACE THE MUSIC
I'M BLINDED
BY YOUR CHARM
IN LOVE WITH LOVE
HOPEFUL
BUT I'VE HEEDED NOTHING
LOST IN YOUR EYES
I FELL INTO THE DEEP END.
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Categories:
sweep over, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Gotta Sweep It
gotta sweep it
under the rug
my carpet
is an
flying
machine
?
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17 sylable contest write
17sylables ...exactly...
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Categories:
sweep over, art,
Form: Monoku
Sweep Me Off My Delicate Feet
Sweep me off my delicate feet,
share with me tomorrow’s sorrows-
Fight for me, turn up the heat,
come closer love and don’t retreat,
your tenderness I shall borrow.
Take me to lands so far away,
so I may never wish to return-
I am awaiting the lovely day
our vows are spoken as the lilies sway,
your gentleness I shall always yearn.
I
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Categories:
sweep over, love,
Form: Rhyme
Sweep the Mind
sweep the mind
of memories
brush those
memories under
the rug
clear the mind
of all evidence
of their existence
lock the door
where those
memories reside
never reopen that
door ever again
keep it shut tight
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Categories:
sweep over, change,
Form: Lyric
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