The Espresso Salon
...He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.
“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”
He pours stout
with ...
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Categories:
fidgets, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Hourglass
...
Hourglass
The sun has become dimmed
with each step
the pathways seem endless
He is dazed
even as his mind is fazed
He loafs
as a floating leaf
romancing the breezy wind
He is im...
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Categories:
fidgets, angst, anxiety, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Fidgets
...Fidgets here,
Fidgets there,
Fidgets sneaked
Into childhood
Unaware
The etch a
Sketch, magic
Screen and
Magic board
Fidgets were
A true blessing...
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Categories:
fidgets, anti bullying, anxiety, change,
Form: Couplet
Just Dust
..."It's just dust," he said, kicking the dry ground
With a worn boot,
Toe pointed cowboy style
But with none of the flash.
"This could be grandpa," he said,
Shoulders rounded, eyes to the ground.
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Categories:
fidgets, family, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
The Chinese Horoscope, Preserved
...“Dragons don’t live up to the talk.
I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”,
Opined the jealous Jabberwock,
“Of the scaly, lummox dragon.”
This foul fiend then, most inhumanely,
Pausing to munch ...
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Categories:
fidgets, allegory, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Schizoid
..."I shall cut off your right digits!"
And the fine red-haired girl fidgets!
Not in early teens, now Eighteen:
Should with success run a canteen...
But Joyce before speaker just trembles,
Every ...
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Categories:
fidgets, character, fear, gothic, health,
Form: Rhyme
Addict Alien
...Thoughts and acts attack sporadic a tactic without static/
Don’t panic you old addict forget that statistic/
I’ll slick back and go ballistic on a notebook with hope cooked rhetoric/
Stick affluen...
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Categories:
fidgets, addiction, angst, art, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Wind Chill
...The temperature is 21 -
Though cold, it fits the season,
But that does not explain why,
While out walkin,’ I was freezin.’
For when you factor wind chill in,
It feels like single digits
And t...
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Categories:
fidgets, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Artchard
...You've heard of an orchard/
I've stirred up an artchard with girthed art to be heard/
Words come in with fun as the function never turned defunct/
Metaphors and puns run an injunction to sever cl...
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Categories:
fidgets, adventure, art, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Whilst the Muse Sits Idle
...Haven’t sorted this years poems
And another year is looming
Yet my fingers dance and play
Upon the keyboard every day
Some say the poems that I write
Are seamless, flowing, very tight
Others pa...
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Categories:
fidgets, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Back To Live
...
My smart iPhone drowned, what a dread!
No purpose to get out of bed.
Can’t do without fidgets
With smarty pants digits
When my social life just dropped dead!
My buddy, from a...
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Categories:
fidgets, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Contacts
...clarity seeps the wound
the flip phone missing digits
a womb infused with violet hues
it's quiet till it fidgets
happenstance and bruise
it swells for martyr avenues
the screen is crac...
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Categories:
fidgets, abuse, identity, pain, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned Clamp
...the vice cannot squeeze any tighter
bolts crushed under the benchmark
gather dust with nuts and lost screws
a DIY manual mocks arrested craft
I cannot hold it together much longer
limb...
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Categories:
fidgets, depression,
Form: Free verse
He Who Drinks
...See how the alcoholic wants his drink. He's got a black can of strong cider. He's in the queue behind me. I sense his agitation. He fidgets, moving from one foot to the other.
I must have my drin...
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Categories:
fidgets, anxiety, devotion, drink, sympathy,
Form: Verse
Cyclononane
...A nonet of carbon atoms
dances around its nonexistent
center, morphing into an infinite
series of noncoplanar nonagons, a nonconformist
to aromatic laws. It fidgets
with its configurations, a n...
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Categories:
fidgets, science,
Form: Free verse
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