Jonzo Bandwagoner

Jonzo Bandwagoner Poems

Men of old in shining armor,
Brand their swords and ride like thunder,
Cities quake; behold their tremor!
Xerxes turns toward Greece.
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(composed while flying out of Berlin)

dim street colors
like brown barley rooftops
...

O afar, beneath this gray coloured day,
Hangs a ribbon of darkness, shadowed fiend,
Despite the attempts, I admittedly say,
All reproves seem endless.
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Captivated, Elongated, Mitigated:
You're a lot of looming words,
I wish I understood.
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Homecoming queen,
You and me in a dream,
Make-believe, so it seems,
I'm lost in between.
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We travled here when I was five.
Now I am ait, or so mum tells me.

I never thught this woud be a problem,
...

Two rooms,
One adjacent to the other;
No news
Whether nuclear warfare has started yet.
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Well, this is certainly a katzenjammer.
Love, Logic, Lucid!
‘It’s just a green-eyed monster, kid.’
I can’t help it, she directs my dreams.
...

A roving couple, Parisian drifters,
Are speaking songs in tempo, tune,
Each sparkly note all purply-blue.
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Our soft shadows crisscross,
I clasp wisp hands, they clasp mine

Shade silk strands link locks,
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Never grow old, kid, never change.
Years from now we’ll revisit you
In thoughts and dreams; we love
You for your smile, your spring,
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I remember, as a child,
She would stir our lemonade;
He would sit and tell us jokes,
Then hide our easter eggs.
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Existence.
The ‘I’ is who I am,
But flesh is all you see.
Does my name define me?
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The bitter smattering, the cold, stagnant icicles
Of the iron birds, their rigid wings
Descend like anathema
Upon our sun-caked heads,
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Somewhere now –
They’re hiding in ambush.
Forget the sun—
They’re waiting for you.
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You grasp my hand
For a balancing act,
I fear of losing your touch,
Your gaze.
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We talk together,
My smile, your eyes,
We eye our smiles,
My eyes on your eyes,
...

Years ago we played together,
Two cousins with life and smiles.
Roller coasters, we were six,
And the world was ours to explore.
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Behold our world is a world of gray,
Broken apart and scattered away.
All who are actors, act in this play;
This theater of nothingness.
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I hate the fact I'm feeling
All this endless sickly dreaming
The rush, rush, rush
Of make-believing,
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Jonzo Bandwagoner Biography

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The Best Poem Of Jonzo Bandwagoner

The Ballad Of Sparta

Men of old in shining armor,
Brand their swords and ride like thunder,
Cities quake; behold their tremor!
Xerxes turns toward Greece.

Men and women and starving children,
Run like fire and ne’er turn back,
Cities burn; behold their splendor!
Xerxes gives the word.

At his word those men in armor,
Take their torches, flaming archers,
Cities fall; behold their grandeur!
Falls in fire and stone.

Men of Greece in flight and flounder,
Who will stand for home and country?
Cities drop; behold their outpour!
Of men and cattle alike.

Darkness looms like silken powder,
“Greece will soon be gone, ” they mutter,
Cities flood; “behold their horror! ”
Xerxes plows ahead.

But then! Oh glory, glory!
Between two cliffs of stone,
Three-hundred men; behold their souls!
Are holding fast their own!

These men of Sparta, small yet brave,
Hold the pass for now one day!
Cities live; behold their soldiers;
Have not yet been swayed!

Hold the pass for now two days!
Hold the pass for now three days!
Cities grow; behold their people;
Begin to hold their own.

Hold the pass for now four days!
Hold the pass for now five days!
Cities stand; behold their leaders;
Gather men to war.

Hold the pass for now six days!
Hold the pass for now—
But the last of them, those Spartan men,
Falls.

For seven days those men so brave,
Held off an army sent by the Grave,
Cities rally; behold their strength!
Xerxes’ face is white.

Men of Greece unite once more,
Live for day and fight for ‘morrow!
Cities laugh! behold their laughter!
Xerxes returns to Persia.

Jonzo Bandwagoner Comments

Landrey 21 February 2007

Jonzo is the kind of guy who looks up the word 'thesaurus' in a thesaurus. And that is pretty dang cool.

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