My Workshop

Time to clean my shop,
Work will never stop.
Tools need to be put away.
Sawdust needs sweeping,
Cobwebs are creeping,
My soul is in disarray.

A pair of pliers,
Some speaker wires
Hang them up on the pegboard.
A set of drill bits,
Is giving me fits,
Problems can not be ignored.

If I’m feeling lost,
It’s too high a cost,
So cleanliness I’ll extol.
Then son of a pup
I’ll build myself up,
In my shop I’m in control.


ALOUTTE YOUR CLEANSING RITE
By Tony Lane

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011



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Date: 9/7/2011 10:31:00 AM
Congratulations on your placement in the "ALOUTTE YOUR CLEANSING RITE" poetry contest sponsored by nette onclaud. CR
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Date: 9/6/2011 10:28:00 PM
Great job, Tony! Wish some of that would rub off on my husband and his garage...
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Date: 9/6/2011 5:54:00 PM
Congratulations on the win, Tony
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Date: 9/6/2011 11:00:00 AM
Congratulations on your placement in Nette's contest Tony. Love, Carol
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Date: 9/6/2011 4:57:00 AM
congratulations Tony. A nice tidy read, good to get rid of the cobwebs. well done. Marg
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Date: 9/6/2011 12:02:00 AM
Sounds like u had to give yourself a pep talk in this award-winning write! Just great poetry again, 'Tony. Congrats....Did u get the Lord's closet officially cleaned out? Gwendolen
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Date: 9/5/2011 10:39:00 PM
Congratulations on your #2 Tony. Agape, Moses
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Date: 9/5/2011 5:40:00 PM
CONGRATS TONY ON SUPER SECOND PLACE WIN IN NETTE'S CONTEST LUV WITH DYNAMIC WORDS ..
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Date: 9/5/2011 4:31:00 PM
whOOOsh,,,yeah! Great write, Tony, and congrats on the placement! ~N
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Date: 9/5/2011 3:50:00 PM
Oh, if only you could rub off on my husband. :) Great poem. Lee
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Date: 9/5/2011 3:49:00 PM
Many congrats on all your wins, Tony : )
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Date: 9/5/2011 3:16:00 PM
hey Tony congrats on your great win..David
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Date: 8/25/2011 6:04:00 PM
Good one..A very different approach to the topic..Reads like a winner to me..I think that it helps most men to go to the shop when they need release from stress...Good luck in the contest...Reads like a winner to me..Thanks for the stopping by, reading, and commenting on my work..Sara
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Sara Kendrick
Date: 8/25/2011 6:06:00 PM
My work on which you commented was from years ago and our daughter Doris got over the surgery has done well..I still need your prayers for other reasons..Sara
Date: 8/24/2011 1:31:00 PM
Intersting perspective. Jim
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Date: 8/24/2011 6:39:00 AM
Good, that was the feeling that I was trying to convey. Sometimes I need to see something that I've accomplished even if it's sweeping a floor.
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Date: 8/24/2011 4:30:00 AM
Oh I love this. I feel the anxiety of the persona and that longing for control in one's life. I sense an allegorical undertone?
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