Wheels Up
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Why does the trolley
dolly or cart
I choose to use
in every supermart
always have a wonky wobbly wheel
and feel oh so wearing
as if it's about to lose
its marbles or ball bearings?
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Categories:
clunks, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
FROM HIS WRITING
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It's day seven hundred and......... well forgive my demented memory, at least you get the idea
Dreams crave to once more take hold of this insomnia
Its nothing less of a miracle that i still brea...
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Categories:
clunks, art, humanity, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
May God bless the drive thru's
...Several weeks in to this healing journey.
Grateful of course, there was no gurney..
Now waiting for these bones to knit.
It's challenging for me to quietly sit.
Wheeling around my condo floors,
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Categories:
clunks, feelings, health,
Form: Rhyme
Farewell Brother
...#FAREWELL, BROTHER
by
Hannah Rain
Lowering him down upon his curved back,
On silky blue sheets, all pleated and tacked,
A pillow they stuffed beneath his cold head,
And combed his gray hair, ...
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Categories:
clunks, brother, farewell, friend, funeral,
Form: Ode
The School Bus Ride
...School bus driver
Releases the squish of her air brakes
With a lurch from knees and chest
Clunks the bus into Park
Lowers her red head into the matchsticks of her dry hands
Rolls the meatballs o...
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Categories:
clunks, child, childhood, parents, school,
Form: Free verse
Locked Within
...Sound of sea is locked within seashell beached
Just lift a shell to your ear to hear sea sigh.
Morn is locked within dawns red sky horizon
Like flower bud bursts into daybreak.
Sap and sinew ...
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Categories:
clunks, memory,
Form: Free verse
Flirting With Free Verse
...Formal forms feel nice and safe
But meter makes me sweat
Sometimes rhymes will grind and chafe
And stresses makes me fret
Perhaps there is another way?
I need to be diverse
Panzer stanzas mad...
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Categories:
clunks, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form: Free verse
Computerised Tomography
...In illuminated tubes,
in hospital beige,
this whirring, clicking, living grave.
It clunks and junks,
it beeps and meeps,
and it peeps.
And in they peep,
all the secrets that you keep,
on a ...
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Categories:
clunks, health,
Form: Free verse
Sounds I Like
...SOUNDS I LIKE
Hiss of waves in seas
Wood being hand-sawn in chunks
Howling wind through trees
Key in lock heavy oily metallic clunks
Baby’s gurgling at a bottle teat
Cat’s throaty purrs on my ...
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Categories:
clunks, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Passion For Cycling
...PASSION FOR CYCLING
Coast to coast across England in one day
A hundred miles in one trip.
Bike like a rocket each sprocket fits its socket
With well oiled smoothness of clockwork
Fe...
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Categories:
clunks, adventureme, me,
Form: Narrative
You Cannot Be Serious
...You cannot be serious
That ball was out
Sorry J. McEnroe
There’s no longer a doubt
The days of valve TVs
You tuned with a thump
And recording the charts
With cassette tape key clunks
Of w...
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Categories:
clunks, life, nostalgiatime,
Form: I do not know?
College Job
...Five dollars on average pays
for a McDonnalds value meal.
Costs little in comparison to
other fast food chains.
I think about this as the
drawer - clunks
open - close and
blue painted chipp...
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Categories:
clunks, angst, confusion, education, food,
Form: Free verse