Cyclone Chaser
...He's a cyclone chaser, cloaked in neon tracer
that mirrors stars dying, heartless witches flying...
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Categories:
tracer, dark, myth,
Form: Alexandrine
When I Was Fortysomething 2000s
...I saw the great con that was Y2K
I saw all the scaremongering go away
I saw in my arms a child I love so
I saw that I did not want to let him go
I saw that I was truly blessed
I saw it b...
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Categories:
tracer, history, life,
Form: Couplet
Poetic Process
...the soul offers the sowing
the core manages the process
an invisíble tracer writes the plot
the poet develop it into poetry...
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Categories:
tracer, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Light Verse
A Poem - Viet Nam
...A Poem [ Viet Nam]
By Patrick Kelly
The last minutes of evening yields to the moon’s shadowed night,
giving me a few moments to nibble the last of my “Band O...
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Categories:
tracer, war,
Form: Prose
Alpha Pistols 2
...Second mag time and more damage below
A gas bottle blows in an orange blast of debris
While this occurs beepers still beep and lights flash
It’s a huge yard and there are many targets still
Slo...
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Categories:
tracer, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form: Verse
Fireworks Not For Contest
...Lost memories of war
Brought back by fireworks
Curling up laying on the floor
Tracer bullets feeling like a corpse
Brought back by fireworks
Thought’s of death and bombs
Tracer bullets feelin...
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Categories:
tracer, war,
Form: Pantoum
Metaphor of War
...Her eyes shooting tracer bullets
Red then red, then red with anger
Her mind a battlefield of wonder
Strategic planing of her wit
Small Huey Choppers flying around
Dive bombing and landing
SWAT ...
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Categories:
tracer, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Bullets Flying
...Bullets bullets flying, hitting there targets from afar
Blood dripping from a bandage with looks of fear
Tiny tiny pellets within, exploding going through helmets
Snipers pinning down these hero's...
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Categories:
tracer, war,
Form: Free verse
Auburn Haired Beauty
...Crouching down, I'm foxhole bound,
crawling forward I seen it, its around.
I ducked my head, while covering one eye,
as soon as the enemies flare lit up the night sky.
Machine gun bullets quickly...
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Categories:
tracer, war,
Form: Rhyme
New Cycle New Life
...got to the station before the tank became empty
the gauge had been falling for quite some time
need a replacement with a turbo valve which is a trendy
get rid of this old pump which is a real li...
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Categories:
tracer, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Pit Love
...Line up the front post
Cheek pressed to the stock
Call me Paparazzo
I'm taking the shot
And I don't miss
I've been enamoured with the way that you talk
Between you and me
I've been incendiary
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Categories:
tracer, war,
Form: Free verse
Deadlock
...Once I was a preserver
a wayfarer
a maker
but later
you turned me into a useless stargazer
by losing the will of being your tracer
I ceded my kismet on becoming an engraver
I grew to be not...
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Categories:
tracer, fate, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Espoir
...Tu n'as pas toujours ce que tu veux
Tu dois apprendre a abandonner
Meme les choses les plus cheres a tes yeux
Tu ne peux pas tous les garder
Tu te demande si le probleme vient de toi
Es-tu un ...
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Categories:
tracer, hope,
Form: Free verse
In the Corner
...Felling like I'm trapped in the corner
Always looking over my shoulder
There had to be an informer
There was no icebreaker
Thanks to that skip tracer
The shadows are getting dark...
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Categories:
tracer, anxiety, business, conflict, imagination,
Form: Monorhyme
War Baby Eyes
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You were born on the eve
of the silent drone tracer lights
Three hours before the bombs first fell
This would be the only peace
your war baby eyes would ever see
Destruction was the sound o...
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Categories:
tracer, baby, death, growing up,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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