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Chromed Poems - Poems about Chromed

Premium MemberSL ecphrasis couplet VIII

...Marc Quinn's 'Nurseries of El Dorado'*
bronzed still life chromed patina show...
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Categories: chromed, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberDreaming of 57 Chevy

...the 1957 Chevy Bel Air was fine in every way
Full of chrome, her sassiness gave her enormous sway
Some people like red autos, but turquoise was so fine
At the age of eight, I wished this car was m...
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Categories: chromed, car,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberExorcising the Angels

...EXORCISING THE ANGELS
 
Armed with lethal joy, hard chromed, and brutally alloyed,
with warmth and good cheer, I blaze the deep dark depths.
Down into the hole, laughter in the wind,
the ...
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Categories: chromed, dark, evil, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVulcan's Mercy

...Hard-chromed and brutally alloyed
he fed the scrapyard hurricane.
Melting the metal, his brawn enjoyed
the splash of sweat cooling the pain.

The weight of the world discarded
at the foot of hi...
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Categories: chromed, extended metaphor, loss, power,
Form: Quatrain

Ohio Dawning's

...Did you remake yourself
out of rust and algae again?
Yesterday was a gray beached hull
now it’s summer in the cornfields,
the tangy air has a towheaded fizz.
The mosquitoes have submarines
they...
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Categories: chromed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Maelstrom

...A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature. 
The blackened police the striders in the dark… 
a crippled plaything, 
a hymn of the tourniquet and tethers. 
...an earth-bound deities song. ...
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Categories: chromed, adventure, allegory, art, class,
Form: Free verse

Two Pieces For Left Hand

...I

The metallic clunk
of intervals between voices -
cognizant cogs drive fluctuations
like ducks crossing a road.

I tilt away from
the coils of your being,
your sounding.
I see you speakin...
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Categories: chromed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSymposium

...Skinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint 
Showing mirrored continents imagined; 
Worlds within worlds at every turn, 
Outlines of Octopi on Oil slicked streets;
Eve...
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Categories: chromed, adventure, growing up, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Wheel Hub

...A car rolls into a soundless night,
Its light sends a bursting view of overhanging growth,
In a microcosm succession of descending seconds,
Pruned for a snapshot temporal existence,...
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Categories: chromed, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Mad Maxxx

...Wanna know why my verbs hurt, 
I’ve held them in for so long they became cursed words.
The worst of the worst, it hurts ‘cause they’re nursed,
Cradled then derailed into a million who were impaled...
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Categories: chromed, anger, anxiety, dark, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Salvaged World

...A car rolls into a soundless night,
It's light sends a bursting view of overhanging growth,
In a microcosm succession of descending seconds,
Pruned for a snapshot temporal existence,
Till all is ...
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Categories: chromed, analogy, creation, earth, future,
Form: Prose Poetry

Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety

...Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety,...
Now Mostly Purged

Decades removed when body electric
felt tortured reverberated, and quaked
with MegaDeath repercussions tattooing, 
piercing, foisting, ...
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Categories: chromed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberTwo Walkers and a Wheelchair

...Oh my yes, I do have two walkers and a chromed wheelchair.
Procured them years ago when I tore my ACL one day.
Twas a mis-adventure of missing a chair high in the air.
When I take a painful arthri...
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Categories: chromed, self,
Form: Free verse

The Sage Burner

...My Grandfather was a Sage-Burner.  
He would light the dry twisted grass with a Zippo. 
It was chromed, silver and read; "Live to ride.  Ride to Live."  

The sage would spark and burst into yell...
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Categories: chromed, native american,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iv

...Pied tidings of suburbian 
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among 
Themselves - 
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird 
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerne...
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Categories: chromed, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

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