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Tapes Poems - Poems about Tapes

Premium Member Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend as We Rebrand Spirituality
... This time, Janice is wearing a priest collar and I’m the altar. She hisses when I open my Notes app during communion, calls me a heretic for spellchecking my trauma. I tell her my whole pe......

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Categories: tapes, extended metaphor, identity, myth,
Form: Free verse
Thirteen Tapes
...A voice recorded, soft but clear, Echoes pain we failed to hear. Hannah spoke from shadows deep, Of secrets buried none should keep. A hallway's whisper, locker stares, Unseen wounds and empty......

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Categories: tapes, anxiety, cry, death, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member RASTA ANDREW AND THE LADY WITH THE RED DREADLOCKS
...REGGIE WHITE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AT UNIVERSITY MALL THE DAY YJAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY PLOTTED TO HAVE ME MURDERED OVER MY POETRY THE KILLERS LAY AWAITING FOR ANDREWS TAHOE TO PULL IN THEY PARKED IN ......

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Categories: tapes, allah,
Form: Naat
To my children, God can blow your mind
...To all my children please know this, I will always love you. That is something that won't change, No matter what you do, Here I want to share a few things, That my God has done for me. First he......

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Categories: tapes, 7th grade, bible, black
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SO CIRO YOU FINALLY DICIDED TO KILL ME WHILE DYING
...I'M REALLY SORRY TO HEAR THAT WE HAD SO MANY LAUGHS ON EVER SUBJECT BOY THE FBI SCRATCHED THIER HEADS LISTENING TO US 7 YEARS RIGHT SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD ORDER THOSE TAPES FROM JUNE 1985 TO DECEM......

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Categories: tapes, allah,
Form: Naat



Premium Member beware of biblioklepts
...Libraries put biblioklepts on wanted posters In workrooms next to aluminum coffee pots and toasters So, the librarians will not check these felons out Because they steal books and tapes without a ......

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Categories: tapes, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The times they are a-changin
... I have the vinyl the tapes and c ds Now I can stream whenever I please There one in the pile, one I adore One that meant much and now even more For when I was young it was just a sweet song ......

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Categories: tapes, music, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Borrow
... I went to my neighbors To ask for a favor And said may I borrow Stuff I need tomorrow, But she stopped me short With this stunning retort: “Do you need sugar cane Drano for a clogged drain......

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Categories: tapes, crazy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Do Not Need to Lock our Doors
...We have no surveillance tapes No ring doorbell to capture strangers or friends Our house could be unlocked day, night and on weekends Our dogs like the inside door open So, they can look out the ......

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Categories: tapes, dog,
Form: Free verse
Ice a Fussin
...Baby you got me so obsessed You know Im twisted up twice Like 720 degrees You know I aint nothing nice But you got to admit You love riding with me My old friends might ask What made you brea......

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Categories: tapes, addiction, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Blue ticked
...#Blue_ticked Feel like I have been locked out from heavens gates, the screaming so internally bloating, my veins turns green, could I be internally bleeding? I said; I'm fine not immune to pain, ......

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Categories: tapes, absence, fire, giving, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corporate
...I was a teenager when back when, when I first started working in the tape industry. Working in Manhattan traveling from New Jersey either by train, bus or car for seventeen long years. I've learnt th......

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Categories: tapes, work,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member 2024, Remembering the 80's, Extended Version, lyrics
...Barbie, Atari, He-man Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan Lower student loans, and landline phones The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial Rainbow Brit......

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Categories: tapes, fun, funny, memory, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Be Kind, Rewind
...The corner video store With the neon lights, Was the place to be On Friday nights ... Only black VHS tapes In clear, plastic cases, Lined the 'HORROR' sections Of my favorite places From......

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Categories: tapes, film, horror, memory, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Dreaming
...As a child we watched George Jetson face-timing Mr. Spacely. We knew this would never come to fruition. Our stereo players took an entire end table. Videotaping was not even a future dream. Tap......

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Categories: tapes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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