In The Airports
...I see them as funeral houses.
I see the longing and the sorrows.
The passengers left—
and they became the ghosts
that greet me.
They show me the architecture,
the lights and the reflections,
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Categories:
terminals, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Barefoot Earthling
...It's taken me sixty years
Of evolution
To realise the simplicity
Of Earthen electricity
My naked feet, like freshly cleaned
Battery terminals
Strolling in hilarity
To observe correct pola...
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Categories:
terminals, creation, crush, earth,
Form: Rhyme
checkout
...I'm in line at a store, and I'm bored,
Typing on my phone, restless and alone.
I’ve got light-blue nails, like the sky or your eyes.
I like them, it’s my favorite color - I don’t know why.
I’...
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Categories:
terminals, age, family, grandmother, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Transport Terminals
...
"Transport Terminals"
When ghosts find ghosts
they walk through the
core of each other
expecting knowledge
of the other’s being
it’s surprising mirrors
are consider...
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Categories:
terminals, muse,
Form: Narrative
Winged Warrior
...Winged Warrior
With his hand over his faded heartbeat
Tuskegee airman, Ohio’s son,
Takes off in a flight plan for eternal terminals
This living aviator legend –
Whose heart looked up to soar o...
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Categories:
terminals, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Better World
...I envision no romantic, grease-splattered engineer
Overseeing the direction of my particular train.
It just follows the course of the tracks laid down
Within the fractal flow of nature’s symmetr...
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Categories:
terminals, allegory, life,
Form: Blank verse
Terminal
...My head spins as the noise from the crash echoes in my head. I sit up in some kind of terminal with strange trains bound left and right for places I don’t understand.
One is gold and ornate but t...
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Categories:
terminals, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: Free verse
Death By Computer
...Pale pasty forms,
Soft bodies draped,
Covered in the sameness,
Dead eyes,
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Categories:
terminals, computer, humanity,
Form: Free verse
You
...You are the opposite of everything I am.
You are so unique; nothing like a carbon copy.
Unlike the average--the reason you complete me.
Unlike many without identity, you are happily you.
You ...
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Categories:
terminals, birthday, wife,
Form: Couplet
Fox So Brave
...Fox So Brave
Fox so brave in the daylight air,
No people around, he doesn't care.
Elusive creatures come out to play,
No human predators spoiling their day.
Air smells sweet, less carbon, less...
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Categories:
terminals, animal, life,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas Day Near Massacre
...When we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when I...
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Categories:
terminals, humor,
Form: Rhyme
New Bohemia
...Welcome to New Bohemia
where we’re looking for a leader.
The last one was murderous
And we hung her for treason.
I’m hidden underground
it’s rebel hunting season.
But I’ve still got a family ...
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Categories:
terminals, symbolism,
Form: I do not know?
I Drop My Friends When I No Longer Need Them
...I drop my friends when I no longer need them.
Disposing myself of them at bus terminals, airports,
and other places.
Please do not take this personally.
And if you are a faerie, I may leave ...
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Categories:
terminals, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
The Times To Come
...It won’t be long before we will see
breakdown of moral values and family,
Marriage won’t be sacred as of yore
we won’t see man and wife anymore.
The family will be considered a species rare
st...
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Categories:
terminals, future,
Form: Rhyme
Emotional Attraction
...EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION
While in this world it seems opposites have attraction
Male - female, plus - minus, north - south, captain and crewman
Between these terminals, force yielded by interaction
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Categories:
terminals, creation, emotions,
Form: Verse
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