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Lost Town
...The wind is in from lost town, it is as thin as a knife edge. Razor beaked gulls twist their necks, rolling in the gritty bluster. Lost town sinks beneath churning clouds, its smokestacks jus......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Many British thermal units later
...Many British thermal units* later Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer, (a married heterosexual doofus, – whose alter egos named and highlighted courtesy Gallant and Goofus) attones ......

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member An Old Clinker Boat in Williamstown
... There is a sadness at the sight of this wreck of a boat, beached on a brick pad, paralyzed and deprived of riding the tides or being swung on a mooring line by waves and wind. It sits as a......

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Categories: clinker, boat, sad, time, water,
Form: Free verse
A Dying Winter
... It was a harsh, hard going season. “It’s a dying winter, lad,” he said, crunching words around, a gnawed pipe stem. Briefly embers sought a place to disappear. Cinder gray eyes, set deep in......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Creaturely
...Rough hands upon her, not near, there, or where, nor the seashell tip of a fingering care or other lack-lustering lapping's but the groundless clubfooted grasping ......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Take the Test
...The theme from Schindler's List moves us to tears, or it should do. Pity there’s not a genetic test for, cold indifference, moral weakness, or self-justified evil. Go on admit it, that SS uni......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spring Vernal Equinox Arrives March 20th 2022
...Spring (vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2022 at 11:33 AM in Northern Hemisphere though meteorological conditions, I swear in summer re: temperatures already mild enough to go outside in yo......

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Categories: clinker, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Divertimento
...You pop my heart so heavily to the rhythm of “like a prayer”from Madonna. You flare the stars at night gleaming towards darkside. You flame the solar ......

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Categories: clinker, crush, i love you,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ramble Around the Foundry
...It’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day. I’m ridiculous for lack of content, All my plot holes are on display. Am I doing OK? Am I having a day? I can’t get a call back. I sat on a thumb tack. ......

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Categories: clinker, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Burlesque
Something Left Over
...It must have been made and rejected, in night’s grinding gears – a knobby irregularity, a leftover of smelt and dross. This is all there is a gobbet of oven clinker, but behind it I sense cr......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summers End
...SUMMER’S END staying cool, in the pool, where children are cruel, on a very hot day— Summer’s officially over. from submarine fool, fishy bubbling school, plenipotentiary fuel— a p......

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Categories: clinker, humor, summer,
Form: Rhyme
A Prayer Between Light and Dark
...dear god or whatever you can begin me now begin me on a whiteboard a blackboard anything that can be erased my cookie was baked with bad blood begin me again as if I were a fish on an alien......

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Categories: clinker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021
...Twas fortnight before inspection 2021..., Not a human creature stirred, nor seen throughout Highland Manor, property carpeted in lush green gently hilly terrain, (a deathlike stillness desce......

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Categories: clinker, abuse, anxiety, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up
...Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up! Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania all the other ones (that follow below)... them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one. ......

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Finger
...Classify myself as one of the great thinkers At times been known to come up with a clinker Try my bestest Surely passed the testest Still, random people are giving me the finger......

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Categories: clinker, allusion,
Form: Limerick

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