Best Batteries Poems

As time shortens
The aisles fill
Hollow-eyed scavengers
Prowling ransacked shelves
The challenge
Of the “tic-toc” clock
Santa will get the credit
They will get the debit
As they sit deluded
Batteries not included
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Batteries Not Included


They sit – idle memories – languishing
crusted filth - a city’s weeping gutters.
Detritus of fast food disposal clings
to scentless bloodied thorns of tear soaked rose,
future maple trees sailing sewer bound,
adrift on a city’s polluted dreams.

Yellow lights a-swirl on oil slickened streets
highlight a scrawny...

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“Batteries not included,” She said.
Which seemed obvious to me;
Maybe a reason she was unwed,
I mean how laconic can one be?

Till to wind her up you know I thought,
Without them batteries knowing;
And yes a charge so I got
As I tried to get her going.

Maybe I could...

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Doors locked
blinds closed
removed the plug
from the telephone.

No one home.



Peter Dome.copyright.2014 .Jan....

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Here's a story that's one for the books
A tale that's really quite odd
Turned out the lights in our hotel room
And journeyed to the land of Nod

Woke up next morning bout seven a.m.
Anxious to get back on the road
Packed our things and went to check out
Started...

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So you will know finally 
use your ears ‘til they’re boiling;
Gather knowledge faithfully 
until that skill set’s glowing;

Soon you will be addicted 
to this creative bouquet;
Batteries not included,
got to walk down this highway....

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It’s hard to find a toy
That doesn’t run on double A’s,
A toy that lets imagination
Rule how someone plays.

I’m sick of toys that talk or sing
Or oink or quack or moo
And that’s the iceberg tip
Of what these modern toys can do.

A simple truck or doll or...

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Batteries

Included with your purchase, 
items of importance, 
things you might
have forgotten, 
at the last minute. 
Gifts that have…
no marked down price, 
no lesser quality, 
and a shelf life, 
longer than bread. 

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These power packs come in sizes that are various.
The contraptions they supply energy to are numerous.
In flashlights, hearing aids, calculators, and radios,
among other things are where a battery goes.
Direct current comes in D, C, double and triple A.
There are rechargeable ones, and alkalines you throw...

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Love is like a remote
It's never there when you look for it
But once you find it
And push its buttons
You gain control...

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It is more often true than not,
Batteries are not included
For this, I can empathize 
It's hard when you are excluded!

If batteries are found missing
Please put some in, without adieu
They are deserving to be there
And it's just the right thing to do!...

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No Phone an no Facebook,
I got nuthin t' haul,
I'm carryin only,
My heart full of love,
an' that weighs nuthin at all.
No i Pad or i Pod,
No tablets for me,
Jus' got me memories,
I'm travelin' light as can be.
Don't 'ave a gameboy or PS3
Aint an XBox registered to...

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He invented things
all sorts of things
Electronic things
that were usefully
and novel
More things than he
probably will be credited
for
He created or recreated
God's gift to man
the dog
He created a tree with a
tethered horse.
Perfect likeness to the
real thing.
His mindset was off the grid
Something that would 
add to securing people
By giving...

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Here's a story that's one for the books
A tale that's really quite odd
Turned out the lights in our hotel room
And journeyed to the land of Nod

Woke up next morning about seven a.m.
Anxious to get back on the road
Packed our things and went to check out
Started...

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He was fearful that if he fell asleep,
lithium batteries in his cells would leak.
A new prescription his psychiatrist wrote
and that's how he started on Depakote..
His ups and downs were hard to endure.
One day he seized on the kitchen floor.
There wasn't a history of seizures before.
In...

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