Clanged Poems

Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back

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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...

The Rung

...It would be a lonely trek
across the icy slopes
and devil's crevasse
where only ghosts of the damned 
dare to go.

I travelled day and night with little rest
broke bread with pica and marmots
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Memorial Junior High

...Malcolm and Courtney at Memorial"

In the halls of Memorial Junior High,
Where lockers clanged and dreams flew high,
Two hearts met in a gentle spin—
Malcolm and Courtney, love would begin.

B...

As the Rain Came

...As dark clouds dashed and clashed in the sky
Thunder began to boom and rumble
Sensing an impending rain, frogs started croaking
Cows stopped cuddling and began to ...

Homeless Poetry

...HOMELESS POETRY

These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless.



Epitaph for a Homeless Child
by Michael R. Burch
		
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful w...

Last Thoughts of a Dying Warrior

...His mind lay prey to mumbled threats within,
drawn to perch upon a twig-thin edge 
slung between a gauze of blatant dreams.
Like some homeless bird come to make a nest,
it yanked discarded bits o...

Steampunk Cat Listens To Uncle Tom

...Steampunk Cat had some weird feelings in his head.
They clanged around against metal, filled him with dread.
Something is happening, he told his Uncle Tom Stead.
I feel a storm is coming, that mig...

An Old Maid With Six Brothers

...She was an old maid with six brothers,
Once again, she held a gun on her “date”.
He began to shake.
His boots clanged together.
Another one gone? A brother said.
The rest of them laughed.
Insur...

Happenings

...The postman blinked
The man winked
The pan burned
The girl learned

The bell rang
The boy sang
The leaf fell
Will the merchant sell?

The pipe banged
The chimes clanged
The woman shopped
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The Edmond Fitzgerald

...The Edmond Fitzgerald was a tanker bold, twenty five thousand tons
of cargo, she held in her hole.
A crew of twenty seven sailors, a captain and a mate sailed the stormy waters
of a Michigan Great...

Purple Boots

...Purple boots, he said
  the odd phrase
clanging in his head

Purple boots, he'd bled
  E'er since a poor boy
had tread in those colors
  for his warrior gang

Purple boots, he nearly sang
 ...

The Lady and Her Birds Friends

...Everyone knew her as Lady Summerworth,
A title she had assumed from mother earth.
She was rich, did what she liked, spoke to no one.
She'd have her breakfast and left when she was done.
Then she ...

What a Clanger

...The cymbals clanged
The drum boom boomed.
The pickle lowed
While the violin tuned

The trumpets drowned
The sound of the drum.
The conductor frowned
And cried for Mum

The fiddler fiddled
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Narfuss the Bogeywoman

...Narfuss the Bogeywoman was crazy and uptight.
She visited the believers in the middle of the night.
Sprinkling their dreams with nightmares and worse.
Stealing their hopes, and dreams, emptying th...

Helpless I Am

...I should have known
when the elderflowers failed to bloom,
Blind was I, dancing in Plato's Cave.
Then there came the day.
The cosmic disarray nor the wolves howls
Rang bells to me.
For had they...

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