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Contraptions Poems - Poems about Contraptions
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To Fly
... 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......
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John Anderson
Categories:
contraptions,
bird, car, fairy, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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B.J. Fitz
Categories:
contraptions,
america, angst, history, society,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
contraptions,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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 ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
contraptions,
character,
Form:
Rhyme
If You'Re Hapa and You Know It
... Hendecasyllabic Alliterative Pseudo-rhyming Abecedarian Artfully arranging all attestations Breathlessly bringing bright beautificat......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
contraptions,
silly, word play,
Form:
Alliteration
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......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
contraptions,
12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Emile Pinet
Categories:
contraptions,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Sonnet
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......
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Jan Allison
Categories:
contraptions,
environment, health,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
contraptions,
funny, humorous, irony,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Terry Flood
Categories:
contraptions,
christian, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
contraptions,
appreciation,
Form:
Couplet
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 ......
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Paul Warren
Categories:
contraptions,
adventure,
Form:
Epic
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......
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Adeyemi Joshua
Categories:
contraptions,
dark,
Form:
Sonnet
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......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
contraptions,
celebration,
Form:
Free verse
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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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
contraptions,
2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Light Verse
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