Capsule Poems

ALLUSIONS OF A VANISHED NOW

ALLUSIONS OF A VANISHED NOW*
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stainless-steel womb
welded shut, 
buried beneath the oak's gnarled roots,
remnants given to the earth.

allusions of a vanished now~
faded sepia photographs,
a girl's clumsy drawing of herself,
a compact disc, its molded plastic brittle,
a mix of forgotten summer love songs.

headlines tell of wars, violence, and bloodshed 
tidings of momentary joys~
the scent of potpourri, a best-selling

Whimpers from Starlink space capsule

Astronauts stranded, 
at the International Space Station
heard strange noises recently 
emitted from the diabled
Boeing Starlink capsule:
"I'm sorry, Dave." 
"I'm afraid I can't do that."

Time Capsule Of Change

Something inside wants to shine
But do I dare let it breath
What kind of harm would it cause
When it reaches out
From with in
Where it never has been a popular choice
Should I let you see how ugly it became
As tme as gone by I felt ignored 
I felt insignificant 
Should it be aloud to live
In a less

Capsule in a Caravan

A shored life
awakes the old
patience is a virtue

a wondrous light
a way for the world
one way passage

yielding trifles
abundant returns
nameless faceless

novelties in scrolls
constant to air
The Book of Life

accounts tallies
clearly visible
hidden from sight

chance of a lifetime
warps through glass
bottled sealed.

Time Capsule

																 							
I am lying in this bed in this room.
My bedroom has become a tomb.
A time capsule of the past. Of days that didn't last.
My children have chosen not to visit me or call me. They have left me in this tomb of yesteryear.

Hoping for the day they once again appear.

I had a stroke.

That's no

Patty Hearst Time Capsule

*Image of Patty Hearst Post SLA Days by Bio.
Patty Hearst Time Capsule


PRE


kidnap
madcap

Miss press
distress

Stephen
live-in

boyfriend
loose end

next door
implore

both are
though marred

claimed they
made way

demand
expend

needy
agree

release
increase

more sum
unharmed


POST


coerced
Miss Hearst

photo
*Rousseau

woodness
goodness

raided
they laid

six ~love
**Cinque's club

plus him
crushed 'em

dual
you-all

Patty
make three

dub nine
club crime

bank raid
they'd paid

***Hearst weigh
must pay

servin'
seven

commute
come two

now writes
proud sights


~love: A score of zero in tennis or squash

*Rousseau: French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural

Time Capsule

This is a flag planted in territory I could not hope to control.
A buoy dropped in space that will never be sighted again.
A desperate note protected by a fragile bottle in the fathomless oceans.

Why does a craftsman labor to build an instrument that he knows cannot possibly function?

I have no answer, though I must be

Time Capsule of Moments

__________________
  Just a Little Scribble
     ~ Simply me ~

Sunday October 25th, 2020- Poem of the Week

Time's Capsule

Surging through memory,
  all time was expanded

The past and the future
  —beginning and end

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Time Capsule

Time Capsule
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015

I carved a name upon a tree,
Like a time capsule, I thought.
In twenty years, I returned,
But God, the great time keeper,
Thought this was not to be
For upon my arrival,  
I found the tree had burned.

My Mind, a Time Capsule

My Mind,
A Time Capsule
Written: by Tom Wright
1/27/2016

With the clock un-laboriously doing its thing,
I start today with blank canvas.
No chambered thoughts, tarrying from the dark side.
 
My mind functions as a stopgap time capsule,
Where is interred each thought, 
Concisely framed, that my existence lay’s in.

Occasionally I excavate thoughts 
Meant only for myself, while questioning,
At what depth

The Nebula Space Capsule

I SPEAK THEE AS IGNORANT
AND AM PROUD TO SAY WHY.
HE SHUDDED HIS SHOULDERS AND LOOKED
TOWARD THE GROUND,
I SPEAK THEE AS IGNORANT, THAT YOU ALLOW
WORDS TO RILE YOU INTO ANGER
THAT SUCH PUT YOU BENEATH ME AND
SPEAK AS YOU ARE MY EQUAL: YET
WHEN SUCH IS SPOKEN YOU ARE MADE MAD
AS IT IS SCRIPTED FOR PERFORMANCE.

HE LOOKED AT

The Capsun Capsule

Surreal, often not right just abstract.
half of something done for something 
else seen as away of needing, but 
being wanted from the position, of thought.
This the rhetorical rhetoric spoken by
the Prime Minister of Dolphious, the
Place where mean People Dwell.
They mocked the people's fear of Creatures
from another world, by creating a Hoover Craft
 to look like

Capsule

Tight spaced enclosure
Swelling of my own inner expense
A feeling as if it is over it is over 
What else is there to give?
Living as though incapuslated
Fearful of the future for that has gone cold
Never thought of usefulness until my day of old
Memories and recollection of a deep
Meaning of expression and pure being
Wrapped inside consumed by

A Seed Is a Time Capsule

Seeds are nature's progeny en-capsuled.
Life's germ in suspended animation,
Awaiting the trigger to grow, scheduled
By warmth, rain, season to spark gestation.
Tiny seed has script to create tall trees
Using DNA code coiled in germ cells.
Shoots sent skyward, roots down, through the soil squeeze
To play out the process, the code foretells.
Seeds stored for decades remain viable
Kept in seed

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