Best Tinman Poems

Airport security is a nightmare when Tinman is around.
When security leads him off, he makes not a bit of a sound.
Lion rolls his eyes because...

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kind heart ~ ruby slipper red ~ framed for the emerald green tinman

4/2/2018...

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no thoughts like Scarecrow
no heart to break like Tinman
no courage like Lion...

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The tinman had no heart,
He cried and cried till it was torn apart.
Even though he had a mind,

The tinman knew he wasn't blind.
It stopped beating,...

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OFF TO SEE THE WIZ

Here I am:  that “horse of a different color”,
purple, pink and white
off to see the wizard
to ask for wings for...

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Gray lines become fragmented
twisted around each beat
that pings within this tinman
with stones upon my feet

washed white walls
plastic virgin talks
split tongue keeps waggling
while the Holy Ghosts...

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The wizard will know everyone I met along the way said.
Okay, I thought, for I am from Kansas and not daft in my head.
I looked...

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The wizard will know everyone I met along the way said.
Okay, I thought, for I am from Kansas and not daft in my head.
I looked...

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crowded, my feelings -
rolling hitch.
i lay on the broiler pan
scorched, unturned.
              ...

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a brain
a heart
COURAGE
a broom - to swoosh away witches, smother fires, trick the wizard
compact hot air balloon - a buffoon might leave you behind
straw -...

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I'm not your 'Life of the party' kind of GUY,               ...

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How did I land in Kansas?
Who plunked me here?
Smack in the middle of the USA?

A state where my vote will never count.
Thanks to the Electoral...

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complicated by your mysterious eyes and then you smiled my way.
incompliant hair, teased by the brawny solar wind, potently alluring.
my pulse swoons at your flawless...

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Say goodbye to the land of Oz in dismay
 where knowledge and logic fall away
 like the scarecrow's inner stuffings filleted,
first one strand, then two...

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Desolate times, how eternaly damned, what to feel, where to stand? 
Blind to things, things to come, unaware of who it may be deliverd from....

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