Poem – Transactions (By Gary Beck)

Transactions   Tourists stream through Bryant Park intent on destinations cultural, culinary, diverse entertainment, mostly shopping, acquiring goods too costly at home, pursuit of a bargain once a typical quest of Americans abroad. Now prosperous foreigners rummage our land as we once rummaged theirs.   Gary Beck/Ignition Point ‘Ignition Point’ is an unpublished poetry collection that looks at some of […]

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Poem – Progress II (By Gary Beck)

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Progress II I think of all the people killed in automobile accidents, can only guess at the numbers millions in America… How many in the rest of the world? Drunk drivers, careless drivers, speeders, lane changers, and the idiots on cell phones, texting, the various disturbances that prevent control of powerful machines that have no intelligence and cannot tell the […]

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Poem – Limits (By Gary Beck)

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Limits   You promised in front of a priest to love, honor, cherish. Then you started gambling,   When you lost you started drinking. The more you lost, the more you drank.   You came home drunk, yelled and cursed at me. I had to help you to bed, but you hit me.   Then you started beating me. I […]

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Poem – Warning Signs (By Gary Beck)

  We ignore preparations that insure survival so citizens of neglect have little chance in a doomed nation, brought about by the greed of our masters concerned with their comforts, while the people struggle to pay the rent, put food on the table, insufficiently aware of the extravagance of the aristos spending millions on Picassos, while the children of poverty […]

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Poem – Quick Picks (By Gary Beck)

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Quick Pics A baseball player wanting to win stands for the National Anthem hand on heart, but not really listening intent on getting a hit.   A concentration camp guard wanting obedience listens to a Beethoven sonata, swept away by its beauty, while his prisoners, live in terror.   A business man wanting greater profits listens to classic rock on […]

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Poem – Careless Consumption (By Gary Beck)

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Careless Consumption The tide slowly ebbs from Florida shores so tourists walk the beaches without getting wet, never wondering why there are no more seashells. The ocean looks the same to them, not realizing the muddy water was once clear blue, completely untainted. The fishes are departing scooped up in massive nets that do not recognize the need to feed […]

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Poem – Many Alarms (By Gary Beck)

The frequent disasters in our fragile land never seem to end and in changing times new horrors abound, terrorist attacks, enormous oil spills strangling the seas, endless amounts of garbage poisoning the land, abundant toxins polluting the air, warning those who listen our days may be numbered.   Author Bio: ‘Temporal Dreams’ is an unpublished poetry collection that reveals our […]

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Poem – Remnants (By Gary Beck)

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Remnants The once proud avenues of vaunted shops now are deserted. Only the ghosts of employees past haunt the cobwebbed stores, all that remains of the departed unable to get other jobs, abandoned by their masters, unable to adapt to changing circumstances, conditioned to servitude, unfit for opportunities limited to the few capable of functioning in the Information Age.  

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