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Best Tinkering Poems

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Premium Member Burnt Aqua
"Burnt Aqua"



I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down 
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson

I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent...

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Categories: tinkering, death, dream, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...

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Categories: tinkering, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Vicious Cycle of Rudeness
Rudeness at places of work is a terminal cancer
That reduces and kills productivity
Promoting the dancer
Who feels her rudeness proclivity

Resembles a godsend in her way of...

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Categories: tinkering, poems,
Form: Free verse
Broken Acoustics
Audible 
sounds
swimming 
throughout
smoothness
...moving
dripping 
refractions
bouncing 
off lies
contrived
...propogation 
volitionally 
absorbing
waves
tinkering
acousticly
drumming
pathways 
hearing
resounding
why's...
compliantly
audible 
sounds
reflecting
losses...
hearing 
outside
lines...
unbroken
 mining...
slipping 
under
surfaces
...muffing
reality 
beating
...flooding
...drowning
...undermining 
wavelike
reverbeating
liveliness 
...surfacing
beneath 
audibly 
sounding
rhyming
...timing
broken
acoustically 
lying...

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Categories: tinkering, betrayal, conflict, emotions, image,
Form: Free verse
Wicked Mary's Been a Bad Girl
Goodness me, fiddle dee dee and la de dah
Mary turned into a black sheep, baa baa baa
That naughty little lamb
Has contrived a big scam
She's gone...

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Categories: tinkering, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Letter To The Editor


             Your judgments have me grinning.
Don't pretend you were immune 
from the Avarice...

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Categories: tinkering, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Water Flows
Tinkering over the pebbles
flowing freely onwards
smoothly
leaving in its wake soft ripples
as it travels homewards
blithely. 

written 03/07/2015
by Shadow Hamilton
contest: Memento Of Waters
visual 5 used...

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Categories: tinkering, water,
Form: Verse
Old Soldiers Never Die
Old Soldiers Never Die 
A neighbour of mine used to be a sergeant in the army,
In his living room he had a big picture of...

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Categories: tinkering, absence, age, bereavement, best
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Christmas
As snows gently coat the land
Breezes softly brush it into peaks.
Candles glitter and flutter in windows
Deep shadows flicker in their light.
Enchanting dazzling gems sparkling
Frosty branches...

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Categories: tinkering, christmas, snow, winter,
Form: Abecedarian
Grim Tim
Timmy was tinkering with a little lock,
When he was spotted by a passing cop,
        A judge sent him...

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Categories: tinkering, children, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Inventor of Cruise Control - a True Story
As you cruise along the interstate in your ultra-sleek sedan,
You should ever keep in mind a little-known engineering man.
His name is Ralph Teetor, inventor of...

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Categories: tinkering, car,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Admirable People
alone inside with me, less than inspirational

  so look out for the more interesting folk

  momentary excitement, the fiery motivational

  beyond the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tinkering, character, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dad
Quiet man of few words
Dreamer and free spirit
Curious and passionate
Tinkering and inventive
Creative and hardworking
Nothing came easy
Worked for everything he ever got
Lived life wholeheartedly
And mostly on...

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Categories: tinkering, courage, dad, freedom, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Putting the Brakes On
I often talk about the biggest scare, that I have ever had,
Thinking back I have to say, I acted bloody mad,
And it didn’t get much...

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Categories: tinkering, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Minnow Minutes
Mingling multiplying minnows marvel masterfully and jaded hooded jalapenos race to the scene. For a pretty fortress is unveiled to a mass highway injection. In...

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Categories: tinkering, crazy,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs