Metaphor Watching Poems

stop sitting in that Paris street
you know I hate it when you crash
through all the flags that people wear
and all the chords are played by...

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Watching the Perseids 

Each year August eleven to thirteen 
We fly through a cloud of comet dust
In those few days 
Watching skyward patient in the...

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Glued to the TV
Can't stop surfing news channels
Want to know it all

Nothing on TV
Can hold my attention like
MSNBC

CNN has me
Mesmerized with interviews
Larry King is 'King'

But...

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What of family?
Bystanding and withstanding
From outside one’s hell

The helpless feeling
To watch a loved one reeling
Advice for dealing?

Not understanding
Explanation demanding
To them what’s to tell?

Be patient and...

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AWE
what A skye
how I wish I can note them all
this poem will be a record of sorts
to the dancing stars, not a metaphor, dancing!
I watched...

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She smoked my last cigarette and I felt cheated. 
I slept with her best friend; again and again, I repeated. 

They mocked him as he...

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Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain

and the humor when that god
complains to...

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At first the sun's fingers
Poke up just a bit,
Seeming to find the ocean's ledge,
They grab a hold of it.

With radiant arms extended,
It raises itself higher,
Then...

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The cold bites
Though not sharply
A long drawn out tear
Which sears the heart
Yet through the pause the heat is back on...

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As dogs eat dogs,and cats eat the intestine of
the cats, I watch with keen interest.

Trees fall over trees,
sun gazes with great intensity
as cloud whispers in...

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