Hissing Swishing Rumbling
...Hissing cars
Swishing trucks
Rumbling bikes
Life is a highway
Really?
Combusting cylinders
Pumping pistons
Turning crankshaft
Spinning flywheel
Engaging transmission
Motoring drive
Tranfe...
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Categories:
flywheel, life,
Form: Free verse
Skill Development
...Jack and his friends, impressed by personalities
wanted to get there and enjoy name and fame
They stood gaping at their accolades and victories
And made gross assumptions about what it took to suc...
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Categories:
flywheel, art, confidence, dream, friend,
Form: Free verse
Love Letter
...My Dearest Ariel Flywheel,
When we first met I couldn't take my eyes off of you
I remember like yesterday flying around at the local zoo
you had delicately landed on someones leftovers french fr...
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Categories:
flywheel, humor, insect, love,
Form: Light Verse
I'Ll Try
...Slowing down
inside
slowly
Whirling wheels
spokes run backwards
Stillness still
repels
Imagination still
tells stories
draining fuel cells
Rearrange
what matters
on the open top
of ti...
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Categories:
flywheel, stress,
Form: Free verse
Necessity the Mother of Invention
...Necessity
- the Mother of Invention -
A Sunday walk took me on a journey over six miles,
carrying nothing bur myself, shorts, sweat shirt, sandals.
On Monday, to the grocery store and back, ...
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Categories:
flywheel, car,
Form: Free verse
Honey's Light, Gold and Mahogany - Home
...Dad looking at that weatherboard house, Old Tooters home,
A thrifty man.. us to him did his brother send,
Saying that the place could do with a mend;
The roof had red patches of pitted rust, the cost...
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Categories:
flywheel, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Doll Dreams
...Faltering steps in silvery shoes
Through pools of moonlight on the floor,
Eyes agleam with blue china hues,
As midnight chimes and night birds soar.
Hands caress the vibrant silk,
Sta...
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Categories:
flywheel, childhood, imagination, life, love,
Form: Verse