Best Cans Poems

Lifelong series, proliferation of dreams
Procrastination pushes cans to rear shelf
Crushed pineapple replaces peaches and creams
Depleted pantry unenvisioned of self

Back burners overwrought iron pans of sin
Awaiting an opener, woman of tin
Lifelong series, ambitions, intended plans
Plentiful in could haves, instead, dented cans


Written:  1/1/2018
Contest:  Dented Cans
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driving away slow
   enchanted by metaphors…
        rice pelting our car
   white picket fences ahead
dented cans streaming behind

            05 Jan 2018

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They catch our eye, those dented cans
     that stand out clearly from the rest.
          Yet something says to stay away...
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To many, a child in the nineteen fifties
dented cans were important
we used them in various ways
they became our childish telephone
stretched across a room
connected by a long piece of string
we had rubbed with candle wax
it never really worked... but
we never cared
we would stand empty dented cans...

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Shark art, the romance of nothingness                                       ...

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Now here's something I've never thought of before
How'd they get the air in those aerosol cans I implore
A major phenomenon
Need help from dear mom
Mom knows everything, she's smart to the core...

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The human body was built with a stretching ability. Skin and muscles are very elastic and prepared for adversities. Bones can be fractured and broken, but mends back in time. Ache me; bend me; mend me; brake me; mane me; pain me; I bounce back....

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The discontent that dying brings should not be vilified
It is not a bad thing to be aware
the act of finality is also a part of life. 

We live in big tin cans, others live in small cans, 
but we all need one.
We enter our tin...

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beer cans empty
clattering drunkenly
down somber, sober alley...

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dry cans in cellars full of sweet fruit 
 covered in dust are beatiful in a way.
 
 all with labels peeling.

 the iconic cambells soup cans in tarnished 
red and white 
set on the shelf like rusty bells on
 a church steeple.

not like the...

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Walking, walking, walking, walking,
Slower and slower and slower,
And s-l-o-w-e-r, 
And s-s-l-l-o-o-w-e-r still.
Barely moving...
Eyes shut tight...
Footsteps weaving...
Intestines heaving...
Racked by Hunger and Thirst,
Thirst and Hunger, Hunger and Thirst:
Woe is He and He is Woe;
He'll die of Starvation,
Unless his throat cracks first...

...Lost in a desert of endless sand,
So...

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Benican said he could,
Jerrican was quite full,
Pellican catch a fish,
Jellican wobble in a dish,
Daisican grow a flower,
Wellican provide a shower,
Barbican cut your hair, 
Terrican eat a pear,
Jonican throw a lance,
Cancan is an exciting dance,
Billican boil some tea,
Would you sit and have some with me,
..............can you?...................

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Even 
though I’m 
a Nigerian
From a 
land 
troubled 
by various  
vices
I’m proud 
of our 
seeds--
Nigerians
who have 
got vision, 
virtues 
and  voices

Even 
though I’m 
an African
From a 
land 
where 
many 
dreams die
I’m proud 
of those 
who are 
Afri-
cans
Who’s 
ideas and 
ideals can 
make 
a...

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Senior year, student government
I couldn’t do anything right
When told to paint the trash cans
Our class colors, blue and white

I added my own touch to the job
Always doing too much
Scrawled my name on all the bins
Hoping to gain more fame

Some thought I was uncool, to
Expose myself...

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Lowly, faded, dented cans
discarded and unseen
where you have been and gone
what journeys in your dreams?

You’ve sat upon the shelves
of dingy discount stores
imperfect cans that feed
the hungry, downcast poor.

Then whisked you into bins
in piles that climbed so high
to eagerly be found 
and recycled for some dimes.

There...

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