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Videotape Poems - Poems about Videotape

Premium MemberWho Would Videotape Themselves On Utube

...Who would videotape themselves on U-tube?
I felt they must be conceited, pompous, or arrogant.
But then the Pandemic hit, and she hit our area hard.
The Kansas City schools shut down from March 12...
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Categories: videotape, computer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhy Did I Teach Her To Video

...Here is my first spoonful of banana for the day.
Oh, no!
Sherry is posting videos of her daily antics again.
Here is my spoon, heading toward my mouth.
She drops mashed banana out of the spoon an...
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Categories: videotape, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium MemberCasus Belli

...In money we believe.
In superstition we trust.
Fill the offering basket
And present yourself for duty.

Preach fire to your Facebook choir
And get your social media fix
With sacramental podcas...
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Categories: videotape, allegory, war,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberGoing On An Expedition

...I am going on an expedition I told my family sweet.
I might FaceTime, Zoom, Twitter or maybe tweet.
But I have to seek my fortune, so backpacking I will do.
I plan to go to Europe, Scotland, Irela...
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Categories: videotape, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Release the Tape

...They say that fear is F-alse E-vidence A-ppearing R-eal.
That can’t be true because I bore witness to Chauvin’s kill!
The video went viral on Facebook, an epic timed release, a
very stark differen...
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Categories: videotape, change, community, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme



Blooming

...
"Blooming"



In the quietening 
of my days
there is a dream 
there he whispers 
cutting tales 
with sharp teeth
in my mind 

in he swims in...
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Categories: videotape, romance, seasons, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberA Rabbit An Elk and a Snowman

...A rabbit an elk and a snowman walked into a bar.
I stared at this neonate.
Did eight month olds talk?

No wait. He is nine months old right?
I check the calendar.
Nine months going on ten.
My ...
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Categories: videotape, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Realize Thyself 1

......somewhere between 2004 and 2006,  somewhere between a poem and a straight forward bend, somewhere between a cup of coffee and a cup o chamomile tea...

It goes deeper than the body.   I h...
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Categories: videotape, spiritual,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberMy Hobby

...My love affair began - as I recall -
when mother read to me. What golden times!
Enchanting fairy tales and nursery rhymes
had planted fancy’s seeds when I was small.

Then through my youth, I’d ...
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Categories: videotape, books, film,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Skirting the Issue

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Somebody saw the enemy’s fearless leader
secretly slinking away
The battle in the blood desert field of Raqqa
was still raging on
Hell’s fury had more than a pound of flesh
left to ta...
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Categories: videotape, death, religion, war, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

Scope

...everyone is so afraid
and they hold it in like a broken music box
like a damaged videotape

and a telescope that sees beyond skin
is lost in the garbage pile at the end of the
Bermuda triangle ...
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Categories: videotape, allegory, fear, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPickled Raspberry Musings

...Caged magnetic daydreams of lucid migration;

I’ve been there before.  It’s forbidden:

Orchard carved calligraphy crisply cut -
Spiraled surface-scratched immortality 
Dimly azure, aglow o...
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Categories: videotape, bird,
Form: Free verse

Killing Her Song

...killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’

“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Unti...
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Categories: videotape, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form: Free verse

Killing Her Song

...killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’

“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Unti...
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Categories: videotape, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form: Free verse

Juvenile Involvement-Zyx

...Zillion youths x-rayed when videotape unravel
the security risk, questioning people’s obligation ,
not many leaders know juvenile involvement
hoist great fellows ,excluding  dangerous criminals
b...
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Categories: videotape, life, youth,
Form: ABC

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