Apprentices Poems - Poems about Apprentices

PERFECTION

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   Perfect is a distant goal
       Perfection exists,
    We realize it very distant ...
     Better than we conform
     in being apprentices,
     Improving the imperfect ...
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Alexander Kielland

...Alexander Kielland 

a Norwegian writer regarded as a fine author, if not the top drawer, but somewhere in the middle, one does not need to stretch up or bend low to read his work.
I read his book...

The Crow Bar

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"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injec...

Music

...Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos
Sprin...

Lost Muse

...Emotional funeral for lost relevance.
Days, nights, years of abuse, and misuse.
endured nightmares as apprentices.
With the utterly shifting views, this is confusing.
Yet, nothing is ...

Wall

...I don't know what's going on
today I even suspect
if I ever had any skills
to understand the world I live in
sure they dug a ditch around here
or built walls that I can't see
there's somethi...

Memory Arc

...Invaluables
milestone apprentices
we filter our times...

A Much Needed Love-

...Much I marveled the romance dear
Instead I uncovered the fondness
Ah, distinctly I was conquering
And its eyes have all the occupying
There stood an avenging spying

I have a much n...

A Much Needed Love 2-

...Much I marveled the romance dear
Instead I uncovered the fondness
Ah, distinctly I was conquering
And its eyes have all the occupying
There stood an avenging spying
The catching clos...

A Party Voyeur

...I was invited to a party, and have been back to it many times over the years. 
 It was so notable to me, because all of the people were having such a good 
  time.  Oh, it was just started by an ol...

As Memes Diffuse

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Mirror, mirror from the wall to online
vanity declares, pick a piece of mine.
Respond, rewrite, re-integrate the theme;
This contest prompt is becoming a meme.

Culture shifts slowly; one stan...

Viridity

...Though unlived ages defter poets shall bring,
And blur all rhymes woven in my barren span;
May young pupil-scribes with like relish savor
These yellowing tropes as sworn zealots can. 

Despite t...

Winners and Losers

...Kenneth Cloke
historically outlines the widening and deepening
and merging and submerging
of elite/non-elite
publicized/privatized ego/eco-politicians.

Earth's perennial health/pathology conte...

Slayer of Sound

...“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” 
—Ernest Hemingway 
  
An incandescent drip of flavor   
falls from the tip of my lip 
words gathered and buil...

Two Masons Far Apart

...Two masons far apart,
Saw a house in the middle,
with cracks in the slab.
How to rebuild such a structure,
so it could endure a lifetime,
of Mother Nature's fury, and 
the shifting sands of tim...

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