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Cables Poems - Poems about Cables

Premium Member When The Penny Dropped
... Silence stretched as the elevator stalled between floors. I heard the cables clang and groan; the gears grind and moan. Then the penny dropped — Switches flipped, engines roared. Lights wok......

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Categories: cables, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schools are Changing
...Gates once locked with poverty's rust now swing on golden hinges Every child a key-holder: the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness, the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mat......

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Categories: cables, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse



Congratulations, You are Connected
...Look at me — glorious, glowing — bathed in blue light, dying slowly with 4G speed. My soul is buffering. “Talk to someone,” they say. As if I haven’t typed my grief a thousand times into ......

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Categories: cables, absence, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Body's Decision to Become a Freight Elevator
... I didn't fill out any paperwork. There was no memo, no consent form. Just a nameless morning when the mirror refused to acknowledge anything above my collarbone. After that, people entered m......

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Categories: cables, age, extended metaphor,
Form: Haibun
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me... like the infinite vista upon the midwestern plain farther than the eyes of mine (an ascetic and copacetic shortsighted father of tw......

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Categories: cables, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dig What I Say
...Say, dig what I say Talkin’ bout a new jazz vibe/ Man, move over/ the Jazz Cookers are hittin’ their stride in the groove to stay alive/ Eddie Henderson/ Cecil McBee/ George Cables,Billy Hart ......

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Categories: cables, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member The Magic of Cyberspace Lines
...I have friends I’ve never seen before At least not face to face. I speak with them with ones and zeros In a world called cyberspace. Through the magic of the microchips At the speed of light t......

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Categories: cables, dream, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Lumberjack Sonnet
...Clad in Kevlar on some forest land leased, big saw in his hand, engine idling, gets put to the tree and shatters the peace, works it just right, and the tree is falling. Adjusts his visor, then l......

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Categories: cables, appreciation, imagery, men, mountains,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In a cyanide night and neon stars, I lose myself in reflections of a mechanical city
...In a cyanide night and neon stars, I lose myself in reflections of a mechanical city, Humans, these flesh-and-blood dreamers, are now mere pulsating organs of machines, In an eternal dance of digit......

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Categories: cables, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Miss My Childhood Home
... "Home is the story of who we are, and a collection of all we love." Wall Decoration Art I miss the beautiful old home of my......

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Categories: cables, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mr Norse a Gloomy Goober
...The woman of the day cables brought us a decorated egg I would have rather had some ale, in a sturdy looking keg Our crocodile-like creature wanted to taste the egg of course. The blue bird of hap......

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Categories: cables, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member mr norse a gloomy goober
...The woman of the day cables brought us a decorated egg I would have rather had some ale, in a sturdy looking keg Our crocodile-like creature wanted to taste the egg of course. The blue bird of hap......

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Categories: cables, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Guess What ? I Have Internet !
... I am a mouse and I can hide most anywhere behind your walls I sleep and snore like a little squiggly tot without a care I am a mouse and I don't care who knows it I am a mouse who lo......

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Categories: cables, humor,
Form: Free verse
WHERE IS THE RED ?
...WHERE IS THE RED ? Voracious winter’s cacophony Cape starlings, turtle doves, pigeons Conductor Crow, on wet corrugated stage, beak battling for bun crumbs earth wrapped worms Where is t......

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Categories: cables, allusion, color, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angelic
..."Both devil and angel on one's shoulders, scenes from yesteryears, little did the public know that it's when one falls, therein, lies the benefits ... for it's when one rises, gives one me......

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Categories: cables, allusion, analogy, angst, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

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