Clacking Poems - Poems about Clacking

Tapestry Replenished

...
Sure enough
they'll be leaving 
one by one-by-one by one
leaving a steady stream of grief
leaving pin prick holes
in the foundation of the heart
the tapestry of the soul.
Like termites takin...

Knees

...Pursuing springtime walking sprees
beside our dog, beneath the trees,
I oft detected some unease
amongst the birds and buzzing bees
as echoed by flat monodies
of clicking, clacking, knocking kne...

Sappho Translations IV

...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch

Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a L...

Your Death

...

Why do you
Put me through this
This death of yours?
Why can’t I dance 
And play
And eat
My God
Or sleep
And forget.
The sky is the same
The blue
The air full
The clacking of a train
...

Onomato-pea-a

...I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.

Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain whooshes open,
I wake up, “No ...

Subway

...Subway

It’s 3 a.m. on the subway.
I’m high and lonely.
A little girl in a womans body.
Oversized hoodie and ripped jeans.
Messy bun and tear stained cheeks.
An empty stomach under a shattered...

NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS

...SAPA: THE NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS

Their ambition grew higher, 
Sapa, blew out of proportion.  

Their expectations grew higher,
Sapa extend its wings. 

Sapa, the Invincibly diabolical. 
cri...

Recipe for Eagle Meat

...We've used our gifts 
to... 
watercolor disease
potter haloes of love into horns of hate
knitting the fallout of nuclear dreams.

Evolution is unwinding at the speed of light.
DNA is drunk on ...

Within these Walls

...Faces of death stare against my raptured skin.

Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment.

I used to run from them in unholy matrimony,
Peeling the sins from my teardrops
Wishing they...

Town Full Of Sound

...Town Full Of Sound

I use to live in 
A town full of sound
With Roller Coasters
And Merry Go Round
Horns would blast
To sound an alarm

I use to live in 
A town full of sound

I use to li...

Walls ana wails

...WALLS AND WAILS

I am confined within these four walls
For far too long and pray a wall falls
And the guns jam with wardens asleep
As I take a walk of freedom, a leap
To a new world without gun...

Critterature: A Prickly Situation

...Old joke: How do porkypines mate? Very carefully.


The porcupine's a modest
And mostly solitary beast,
Akin to capybara and to beaver,
Though in size he is the least.
He rarely gets invited
...

Flying

...Tense and clacking.

Beautiful scenery.

Ominous yet bright sky.

I don’t brace myself this time.

That just makes my breath hurt more.

I can just…

Pretend to fly.

I can be dizzy and...

The Peacock King

...An old peacock has lost his voice, among the hens
he wanders, his soundless beak a' clacking.

Once he rode the roof of life, once he strutted
across its gaming board, a tyrant lover,
a beady-ey...

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