Best Sprockets Poems

I feel the clock
as it begins to unwind
Tick tock, tick tock
another second behind

Springs and sprockets 
intricately interconnected
Tick talk, tick t a l k
My slow down...

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In the space between the moments
Myriad eternities merge,
They come like dreams
    on whispered interludes
        ...

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piano rocket
jazzy orchestra sprockets

no electric guitar
no electrical sockets

careful where you dance
might get hit with a lover's locket

no security here
no need to empty your pockets
bumping to...

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O' woe, begone betwixt machine,
Breathe clowns galore this Halloween,
Lay tricks played game, device for fools,
Be sprockets, chains, and things learn I,
What need be fixed, of...

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Flatbush . . . Bedford Stuyvesant . . . Saint Jerome's . . .
Our Lady of Good Counsel School . . . The Sisters of...

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I wondered what I’d do If I had chosen a career
Would it have been based on challenge or overcoming fear
I could have been an electrician
Working...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.


PART 1

the highway's...

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Time will tell, just gently listen,
to the sound of gears and sprockets
conveying a concept quite complex.
ask it a question and watch the position,
of the needle...

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hello hate
say i say sayd hello hate
contemplatory emotional tags
these sites drag lips womb walls are stretched
my eyes have been sifted through sculptors
beyond castles dreams
clouds lines...

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The Clockmaker

The old clockmaker sat at his bench
In the shop where he'd lived all his years
With a monocle lens on his eye
And his desk filled...

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Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front...

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Doodles and dabbling
Pillow stuffings in the hall,
There is toilet paper 
Colliding in and out of each stall.

Perusing and cruising
Space shuttles standing tall,
There are sprockets and...

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Johnny jonquil jerry justified jilly’s jeu jeu bee
Dilly dally Doolittle dodged debonair simon legree’s degree
Freakish freddy frogmouth forever frolicked footloose and free
Michigan mike’s handy hardy...

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Perhaps one day the world can change
remove this grain from the gears
those sprockets seeking to rotate
have no need to compensate

an irritation that few admit
except to...

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Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and...

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