Just Think of It
...I only ride the subway
To a doctor or a show.
When teaching, that was not the way
To work I used to go.
Today, though, in the morning rush
I had to take a train
And I expected all the usuals
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Categories:
usuals, appreciation, new york, today,
Form: Rhyme
Seventh Floor
...s of sleep that night
to awake in my dream to a gala porch party
on our balcony, attending was everyone,
my benefactors - Mark Twain, Martin Luther King,
Albert Einstein, Leonard Cohen, Rudyard Kipling,
Robert Frost, Maya Angelou and Dorothy Parker.
The "usuals" who would, could draw me close
but I'd have none of it, my mood morose.
Sullen, I waded disconsolate through the crowd
to the rail, reached in the basket I'd kept
for the long hemp esca...
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Categories:
usuals, bird, death, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Black Purple
...BLACK PURPLE
Just one dialled and received call
Two hearts connected through a good network
From one single kiss; they stopped being single
Good timing made way for good scenes; censored
Wa...
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Categories:
usuals, adventure,
Form: Alexandrine
Why Is It
...Why is it:
we plant gardens
but we garden plants?
we call natural medicines drugs
and we call unnaturally produced drugs medicines?
we label our disease-addicted corporate-insurance comple...
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Categories:
usuals, culture, earth, garden, health,
Form: Political Verse
Good Times Bar and Grill
...Friends always seem to be drawn here every night
After a few shots, they start to get tight
Everyone has their usuals, a bar favorite, double Jack and Coke
They have a new drink called a Heat Stro...
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Categories:
usuals, life, urban,
Form: ABC
A Flutterby's Plight
...Ordinary amidst
a thousand eggs,
I was a mere nobody.
Plain and common
were all I was --
unnoticeable in
the lush green vast.
Burning with thrill
I crawled into
their circle.
Alas, this w...
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Categories:
usuals, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse