Playing Pinball
...Carpal tunnel twinges
punctuate a torpid afternoon,
as row on row we line the aisles
and stare at nothing
with the guarded anonymity
of urinating men.
My thumb is on the lever,
moving almost...
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Categories:
carpal, fun, sports,
Form: Blank verse
massaging the figures
...
i posted this poem and got a hundred instant hits ~ my wrist’s sore
next time i need self inflation ~ i’ll tap my muse and beg a bit more
and carpal tunnel sufferers out there ~ these monoku...
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Categories:
carpal, parody, perspective, poems,
Form: Monoku
Anatomy Of Poetry
...Anatomy of human structure
Poetry of nerves and impulses enrapture
Temple of parietal bone that beats
Carpal bone pleats
Integumentary system perspires
Nervous system inspires
Circulatory syste...
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Categories:
carpal, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Tristich Series
...Sixty year old cabinet hinge squeaks
Pain as owner bends her knees
A long relationship at its peak
Cling wrap drops upon the floor
Carpal tunnel lessened her grip
Cabinet door hang...
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Categories:
carpal, analogy,
Form: Tristich
I Rode Shotgun
...
I rode shotgun
with someone
who look just like me
Had the same skin color
as far as I
could steering wheel see
I rode shotgun
with a racist someone,
who hatefully...
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Categories:
carpal, anger, hate, truth, wisdom,
Form: Bio
Reflection Mindset
...I I’m constantly rehearsing
On my versing
Never sliding or swerving
My Rhymes play
Like a wordsmith
I’m Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
Remembering to stay humble
And claim my guil...
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Categories:
carpal, bible, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Ambitious Muse
...Muse imagination fires; another night’s sleep, lost.
Carpal tunnel initiated; muse pours herself through.
Flood of her dreams; my heart’s delighted by her flamboyant artwork.
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Categories:
carpal, dream, image, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Sijo
Tunnel Vision, the Game
...You request him to travel to distant lands
on a quest to conquer the enemy.
A like-minded platoon battles beside him,
helping him achieve an ultimate defeat.
You keep him sheltered from tough w...
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Categories:
carpal, children, computer, dad, games,
Form: Free verse
Cake of Delectation
...In a desperate unknown inaugurate of a life.
beyond the interesting heaves of a new grief.
a story begin unheard of and untold of,
the secluded results of which were uphold of,
as the dawn of t...
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Categories:
carpal, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Fear Not Thy Death
...Fear thee not, for thy sweet stench of dormant death is in the aboulic air
Thus in thy fraught, and benighted breath to ask for thy life to shamely spare
Or be quick thy death, defecating and relea...
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Categories:
carpal, death, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Kissing the Water As It Flows
...kissing the water as it flows
perhaps they are my tears discovering pathways to woe
whatever it is, it is not the same without you
bewildered and disheveled, i let myself go completely
i remember...
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Categories:
carpal, blue, depression, heartbroken, lost
Form: Free verse
My Final Curtain Call
...I'm sorry momma.
I'm sorry father.
I couldn't be the man you raised.
You instilled me with morals and values,
from which I chose to stray.
I chose to leave those college days,
just to be on the...
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Categories:
carpal, father, lost, mother, parents,
Form: Free verse
A Day In the Life of a Bag of Potatoes
...Courting days are long over now
men, well, what does define a man?
Certainly, it is not merely physical?
yet one would expect manliness to
involve some sort of strength?
Does a man let a wom...
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Categories:
carpal, change,
Form: Free verse
To Those Who
...This is for those who hide their heads and their hearts in
the hoods of their hoodies, hiding from the peripheral world
and sinking into their carpal tunnel world, who let the lyrics
from their ipod ...
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Categories:
carpal, hope, tree, tree,
Form: I do not know?
Song of the Carpal Rust
...I see
the radiation is rolling off my eyelids
right into the sclera
white to red
I can't remember how to pick grapes
with arthritis of the mind
going north towards
the wanderings of the crows...
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Categories:
carpal, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
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