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The Dinosaurs At Webb Dock

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Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river - 
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint ...

Categories: gantry, fire, world,
Form: Free verse

Gleams

...heron eyes
over the green shallows
catching fire in a thimble of time
steely kamikaze plunge
a divine wind catching
gleaming stiletto
bright day spray
silver tail hoisted into gantry neck
loo...

Categories: gantry, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Kleptocracy

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Steal away the idol children
Work ‘em to death,
give them no pay
Carry their cries 
	      on a plaintive wind

Pilfer their graven image mind
Then fill it with empty thoughts
of cas...

Categories: gantry, perspective, symbolism, truth, word
Form: Alliteration

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Crooked As They Come

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Total cop out ... criminal eyes
don’t ever confess
Grifter smiles will make a mark frown,
put smirks on politricking class clowns
Public trust, 
it only grows less

Oh, from the top...

Categories: gantry, political, slam, truth, word
Form: Rhyme

Sugar In the Gantry

...how do i complete thoughts?
greet and free drops
diving undivided
to keep the peace hot
high priest
once fleeced
we meet
a sly fox
what is this beast?
eat some frylocks
weep the beat box
a...

Categories: gantry, america, hip hop, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Trip of a Lifetime

...We flew through the air on a refurbished plane,
the shakes and the rattles sure gave us some pain.
But we were the ones who fortune had named
to spend years Far East with our dad’s army game.

T...

Categories: gantry, adventure, flying, military, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Any Final Requests

...Behold! The reaping gantry.
Dusted lungs and coiling flame
Silver pity from his seduction
Serpent shedding no final gain,

A toll to pay your darkness
as she ponders memory lane
light seeping ...

Categories: gantry, allusion, angel, death, depression,
Form: I do not know?

And Still I Drive - Part Two

...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhea...

Categories: gantry, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Cutting Down Trees

...As kids we called it Springsure’s Hill,
A wonderful place to hone our skill,
Playing in scrub till light was gone
Hide and seek with my brother Ron.

We knew the birds; they knew us too,
Bellbi...

Categories: gantry, environment,
Form: Lyric

Battle of the Bulge

...There is a potbelly in Kelly
  To whom it belongs  ‘Our Nelly’
   She’s banned from the pantry
    Works out in the gantry
     Her bikini versus the deli.

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

Categories: gantry, funny,
Form: Limerick

Eighth Grade

...1960 and the world was changing
A time for living and rearranging
Baseball in the school yard with a sponge ball and a fist
Donnie Brooks sang Mission Bell and Chubby did The Twist
Bobbie sox and...

Categories: gantry, childhood, music, nostalgiaschool, world,
Form: Narrative

Looking For Specials.....

...Finding sale items
clipping coupons
2 fer 1 is great when find 'em

Short in the pantry
tripping to foodbank
lines are longer now for gantry

Top ramen special
10 for a dollar
loading up as...

Categories: gantry, food, funny,
Form: Free verse