Best Percolator Poems
Morning Time
...Previous dawns flock together,
gather.
The hedgerows accumulate
with old and new. Sprigs and twigs
bend under the weight of
heaping feathers.
If eyes open too soon
then a few mornings go......
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Categories:
percolator, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Memories In Appalachia
...Every morning at close to four
She made the coffee, percolated
Poured it into cups with saucers
And they each would have a cup
Pouring the potent black liquid
Into the saucers before drinking
T......
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Categories:
percolator, mountains, remembrance day, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Hard Rows Well Hoed
...It was a Wednesday;
a day woven
into prison blankets and dish towels.
A day to assess hours unnoticed.
A time of trivial hungers.
The hard heft of earlier times: -
not fitting into anything,......
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Categories:
percolator, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Echoes of a Shady Past
...An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement......
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Categories:
percolator, art, birth, character, courage,
Form:
Prose
It's a Spring Morning
...The morning greets me with birds at my window
They peck at the glass,
they chirp and harass,
"The sun is up, the grass smells clean!
The flowers so pretty they must be seen!"
I pull the cov......
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Categories:
percolator, art, cat, dog, morning,
Form:
Narrative
Really Good Rap Song Horn Haiku
...Really Good Rap Song Horn Haiku
There are scores and scores
Of stores that have gone away
Too much have to pay.
When small star twinkles
Will we see all the wrinkles
As each one mingles.
......
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Categories:
percolator, humorous,
Form:
Haiku
Percolator
...Coffee
Every morning
Perked in percolator
Memories wafts on morn's cafe'
Latte......
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Categories:
percolator, family, food, happiness, life,
Form:
Cinquain
It Is Too Early To Prite Woetry
...If the sunrise has gone a hiding,
And if my noggin still feels woozy,
It holds true, Wummer, Sinter, or Spring.
It’s too early to prite woetry
And if my noggin still feels woozy,
So, my bare f......
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Categories:
percolator, fun, humor, writing,
Form:
Pantoum
Trench Town of Cicero
...the reasoning the fishing in the trenches
beyond tire swings and monkey wrenches
follies crawl behind the hanging logos
of unseen filth across 124th street
tassels dangled above an oasis
o......
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Categories:
percolator, allah,
Form:
Qawwali
Day Sounds of the Deaf
...Cock-crow for me is the tring of the alarm clock
unheard but felt as it vibrates against the pillow .
Coffee percolator bubbles (and whistles?)
the puffs of steam tantalizingly call for ......
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Categories:
percolator, day, today,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
...n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.......
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Categories:
percolator, character, dark, death, emotions,
Form:
Prose
Can You Relate
...My generator will not generate,
My regulator will not regulate,
My carburetor will not carburet,
So I guess I’ll just be……
L
A
T
E!!!!
My oscillator will not oscillate,
The perc......
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Categories:
percolator, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Terminator
...1/13/16
Waking up bright and early, and allready using the percolator
Figure out what is and isn't worth the labor
Learn what's greater
Before a possible outcome is determined later
Don't ev......
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Categories:
percolator, poetry, rap, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
My Life
...Quote: I don't want a perfect life I want a happy life
Children tumbling out of bed
coffee dripping from my old faded percolator
Stockings hanging from the shower curtain
mother'......
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Categories:
percolator, analogy, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Cotton Commercials
...Cotton Commercials
always reminded me of
my grandmother's house
irony cotton paralleling
Ridgfield Park, New Jersey bitterness.
Boiling in decrepit neighborhoods,
once swarming with Irish and ......
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Categories:
percolator, childhood, places, sad,
Form:
Free verse