Steampunk
...In the copper-clad cradle of time
where gears whir fugues to forgotten dreams.....
the fog—a somnolent specter—drifts.....
veiling the calculus of progress
a manuscript etched by steam and soot.
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Categories:
anachronisms, literature, mythology, technology, time,
Form: Narrative
Malaphorisms, or, Sayings Unsaid
...We grew up with aphorisms--
Pithy, witty observations;
Some may only be sophisms
That were passed through generations.
Old but not anachronisms,
They’re still true in many nations.
They have ...
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Categories:
anachronisms, funny, humor, parody, words,
Form: Light Verse
Rant
...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith
malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
into mult...
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Categories:
anachronisms, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Wall of Monkeys
...emissary from the great beyond
slapping faces for fun and profit
me too tie my shoe then cracko
blindsided until there ain't no blindside
but I thought we had an agreement
just another saw blade...
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Categories:
anachronisms, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Battery Check
...Battery Check
I had better say this before it is too late
& I'm doing a battery check
down at the School of the Americas
badda boom mafia rim shot
the old wisdoms are newly or neo-inadequate
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Categories:
anachronisms, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Electronics
...The electronics clambered, numbered incessantly the pixels
Evermore they quoted as they looked sheepishly beyond the waving kelp
But how many fonts hold fast to the batholiths where benthic crawle...
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Categories:
anachronisms, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee and She Does It Without a Net
...AND SHE DOES IT WITHOUT A NET
She's an acrobat with anachronisms
and an anarchist with adjectives
she dances with words cheek to cheek
and the letters follow all her directives
she shames m...
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Categories:
anachronisms, inspirational, words, write, me,
Form: Quatrain