Contraptions Poems - Poems about Contraptions

To Fly

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If I was meant to fly 
I'd have feathers and wings.
For being naked, no lift-off brings.
Instead I try to use sticks, feathers, paper and strings,
like Icarus, and the Wright Brothers, Wilbur a...

Capitalism is Artificial Intelligence

...Tonight I told ChatGPT that the refrigerator wouldn't shut the hell up.

The thing pathetically rumbles in the cheapness of creation in modernity, with constant muffled screams; brgggrr whrrrzz...

Gumball Machine Is Full of Fun

...The red gumball machine was full of fun
A machine that knew she was number one
Other contraptions thought they were a contender
They were certainly not said my cousin, Sam Lender.

I have had th...

Gobsmacker Gus

...gobsmacker Gus was his own kind of balloon man, what dare I say?
flew to his Monday internal voices, other times whispers of the day.
He heard voices that spoke of fantasy and whimsy complete.
We ...

If You'Re Hapa and You Know It

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Hendecasyllabic Alliterative Pseudo-rhyming Abecedarian


Artfully arranging all attestations
Breathlessly bringing bright beautificat...

Screeching Cornered Animal Synonymous With Banshee On the Loose

...Upon exiting side door nearest
to our single bedroom
(few dozen strides to access way
out apartment - complex edifice),
I unexpectedly encountered
(on August 30th, 2021 ~10:15 pm -
née namely h...

Inquisitive Dreams

...Leonardo da Vinci felt flying
was possible, sketching wings in detail.
And the fact that birds flew kept him trying,
even when all of his efforts would fail.

An artist and a brilliant e...

Flawed Thinking

...Throughout the Covid nineteen pandemic
we’ve all been encouraged to wear a face mask
But it’s an illusion they protect us from getting the virus …
they prevent the wearer...

Vending Machines

...Vending machines are so irritating--
     mechanical contraptions
     designed to fail
So, they take your money
     and hold their product
     from your grasp.
You stomp and scream into deaf...

A Christmas Story

...Teacher tried to teach his class that Christmas isn’t boring
Half the kids weren’t listening and one or two were snoring
He picked out little Lucy, she seemed the one most liable
He made her prove...

An Old Fashioned Blackberry

...weird as it sounds when my thoughts wield their all mighty hold

cast inflictions twist meaning and imply the truth of whats told


I resorted to reason which seems to be a contradiction of term...

The Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range

...The cold wind of the Antarctic
Cut any warmth from the sun
We have come to measure the world warming 
That has been melting the ice away 

A satellite had mapped the whole of the continent
And ...

Drooling Dark Dream

...muttering mist moaned
consoling callous clone
bruised odds birthed:
lanky lust cremated
eerie contractions crumbled
gaunt contraptions grumbled

wanky wind wept
ferocious fills fetched
licki...

An Unperturbed Mind

...When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away

It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random

	It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hamme...

The Children Will Save the Planet

...I am optimistic the children will  be the ones
To save the planet
They have built wind machines
And created contraptions that 
Take thousands of pounds of garbage 
Out of the oceans.
I am optim...

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