A ONE-WAY TICKET
I saw a one way ticket
A trolley full of lauggage
Checking in an apartment, not a hotel
This visitor is here to stay
I saw a sale agreement
Not a stay receipt
I saw a full smile
Not a half-wit grin
Embraced with both hands
A bed in well made
I see no plan for departure
This visitor looks quite settled
AI is here
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Categories:
ticket, 12th grade, adventure, veterans
Form: Free verse
First Class Ticket
I hear the train in the distance
I still have some time
though it is getting shorter
Bought my ticket cost me a lot
The train whistle calls my name
It hasn't arrived when the conductor will
call all aboard and my ticket will be punched
I paid first class
I need to get some errands done
Good byes forgiveness and tears
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Categories:
ticket, christian, freedom, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Virat Kohli
Virat..never ersatz..fat cat with the bat
Look at record book stats in every format
Kerching bling King of tats
Vicious & pernicious in the ring
Kohli kidology methodology thing
Tit for tat..spit for spat
Bit of chit chat
Never ending..mind bending
No caveat..rat a tat tat
Doff your hat & all that
Could only be Virat
Parting platitude ”walking away with a heart full of gratitude”
Could
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Categories:
ticket, sports,
Form: Rhyme
One Way Ticket To Midnight, Lyrics
Ah — ahh — aaah — aaahh...
Ah — ahh... ah — ahhh...
Aaah — aaah — ahh — ahhh...
Ahhh — ahhh — ahhh — ahhh...
Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea
China taking over the sea
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Categories:
ticket, betrayal, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Lyric
Mother’s One-Way Ticket
Our sweet mother went to heaven one Spring day.
Four years ago, the flowers folded their wings.
Hymns, ethereal in the fog; smile at bay.
Left at table, in closet, on shelves - her things.
Most dearly departed, her ticket one-way.
And my father cheers her urn each day.
She’s in our hearts, our thoughts are off and flying.
This family is
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Categories:
ticket, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
ONE WAY TICKET
ONE WAY TICKET
Am I really swimming in grief
And no prospect of any relief
And this situation belies belief
It wasn’t so bad in recent days
But how such shifts can amaze
Tell me if it’s sunlight up there
But then, I always had assumed
Any such attempt was doomed
As buried riches rarely exhumed
Was I just following some craze
With a whole shipwreck
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Categories:
ticket, deep, grief, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Ticket Man is Obsolete
Time to open up your world
let them jump right into the mix
taste the vast mind pool of your existence
no need for a ticket tearing man
worthy journeys commence for free.
Though impossible-have no prejudice
everyone's invited into your destiny
some will yearn to stay
some will beg to leave
show them nothing
or show them everything
take some chances to be
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Categories:
ticket, 1st grade, mental health,
Form: Free verse
big ticket
* an updated version of a piece I wrote for my favorite baller, Kevin Garnett *
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intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... was of a wholly-invested mettle and mind
the conscript of a checkered court
dauntless defender of glass and lattice
and the pride of
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Categories:
ticket, analogy, basketball,
Form: Free verse
One Way Ticket
They say they’re on board, there’s no fuss
They just let the old man loudly cuss
Think no one will notice
It’s only the POTUS
Thrown under a big yellow bus
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Categories:
ticket, irony, political,
Form: Limerick
Stroke Of A Pen
Have you ever wondered about all the things that require your signature in life
How about a marriage certificate, I now pronounce you man and wife
A steady hand is needed as you buy your first home
If a writer's cramp occurs with so many places to sign, you are not alone
The car of your dreams you
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Categories:
ticket, life, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Your Ticket To An Endless Stream of Consciousness
Are you out of your goddamn mind?
What even is a TOS at this point anyway?
Copper meets gray matter in a stellar show!
Self-inflicted; this is what your ticket paid for!
Here's your endless stream of consciousness
Concisely squished into 2500 characters
What a limitation!
The English-only aspect feels racist.
Summer heat, the concept of the endless
Have you gotten sick of tropes
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Categories:
ticket, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Ticket In It
that’s a idiot
that’s the ticket
tell her morning your in it
your morning sickness
he’s
in the idiot
she
lives Ticketmaster life
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Categories:
ticket, engagement, for him,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Connie's the Women Without a Ticket
Connie's The Women Without A Ticket
I sit at a bar, starring at other couples
I admit I had a few
No, not relationships
But a few beers to ease the pain
Today's not any different
I keep starring at the couple across the bar
There's chemistry
A subject that's foreign to me
He keeps kissing her neck
And her eyes sparkle wide,
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Categories:
ticket, lost love,
Form: Free verse
One Way Ticket
Leaving behind dreams
Memories and known places
Flew in a cold eve
Embracing the unknown fate
Searching for new dreams and hope
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Categories:
ticket, dream, travel,
Form: Tanka
Ticket To Mars
I filled an ashtray with anguish
but your eyes didn't see me
your way of saying I don't care
the hallway to the elevator is infinite
is where I lose you in every step
It's a crushed glass flavored goodbye
and now this is the typical unfriendly street
that doesn't give you back your balance
upstairs, fourteenth floor
maybe she will breathe a sigh
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Categories:
ticket, goodbye, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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